In 80, I got a job at Todds Copy on Mott Street. Guthrie Inn on the other hand perfectly captures how living on the Upper East Side feels in reality; a bit isolated and quiet at times, a haven from downtown at other times, comfortable yet on the rise, and full of an interesting cast of characters. I was straight-edge, so if I snuck out, I was all right, because I wasnt hungover the next day like the other kids. But some places were so beloved theyre still talked about fondly today. He and I had dinner every night, and a stream of our friends, including Keith Haring and Debbie Harry, would join. I started JAM in 1974 to show the work of African-American artists and other artists of color. Queens: PS1, the site of the era-defining exhibit New York/New Wave (1981); Queensbridge Houses, public housing that counted Juice Crew founder Marley Marl and rapper members Roxanne Shant and M.C. I was always worried about getting a dirty shirt or chipping a tooth., Ski Bars biggest attraction was the Slalom Shot, a four-foot-long slab of ice with a twisting trail cut into it. The deal with him was he never had to come and he never had to give any money, but he would give his name and a recommendation. New Yorkers and Their '80s Routines Block by Block I didnt smoke or drink, and when you dont do those things, you need an outlet. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . One of my responses was to just keep working. Whether you were struggling, successful or just plain lucky, these stories remind us that in these years New York City dirty, dangerous, derelict, dazzling was the only place to be. Maxi Cohen, Area, 1985, Ladies Rooms Around The World, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio and Chambers Fine Art. Bob introduced us, and Dustin congratulated me on the film and told me my acting was naturalistic. It dawned on me that there are so many different styles of acting and you dont have to adhere to just one. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. One night, one horrible July Fourth, I invited the board members up to the roof, and I discovered 40 or 50 people at a party that I think Kenny had organized. Whats she doing now? She was like [hyperventilating]. I just left the house on a Sunday, went to make the record. I went over and started chatting with him, and we became completely engrossed in this conversation about jazz. Sam [Samuel L. Jackson] and I bought a brownstone in Harlem around 1981. JAM gallery founder Linda Goode Bryant, circa 1981-82. They were sort of an island unto themselves, and then you went across the park and you had the Pyramid Club and everything else was bars until you got to the Mudd Club way downtown. Gracie Terrace, New York, NY (212) 535-3140 (212) 535-3140. It was at Avenue A and St. Marks Place, but the windows looked out on an air shaft, not the park. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. We didnt pay rent, but it was meant to be $300 a month. One of his favorite pieces was the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms, sung by Dame Janet Baker. I lived above a topless club at White and Church. My contemporary, the writer Ed [Edmund] White, had the apartment next door. It was a restaurant a modest place, like an Italian restaurant but really it was an actors hangout. And I got in trouble because I didnt get home until like 1 or 2 in the morning. And we had Tina Chow, who had such unearthly beauty she would come into a room and just drift. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. I made a deal for him to do a cheapo job by trading a Brice Marden plus $10,000. I tried to focus on my art. Hip-hop artist Prince Whipper Whip of the hip-hop group Grand Wizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five at the Sparkle in the Bronx. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. Taste of a decade: 1980s restaurants - Restaurant-ing Through History There were problems, of course; you serve young men and women as much alcohol as they can humanly consume and theres bound to be. It made me immobile. We never served any food, but we always had a couple cases of beer and a basic bar. Lines around the block. In the Early 80s, It Made All the Difference, Oral History: Remembering New Yorks Fiorucci Store, New Yorkers and Their 80s Routines Block by Block, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/t-magazine/80s-nyc-map.html, Ann Magnuson, actress and performance artist. Columbia Pictures had given me this SX-70 camera at a conference, and I started documenting life in the Fire Island Pines [an area of Long Island known as a haven for gay life], which just seemed very important to me. Drunk patrons would dance on the bar top, well before Coyote Ugly, which would open in January of 1993, had popularized such shenanigans. I suppose I should have loved New York; things were very good for me. It was chaired by Brendan Gill, a great theater critic and architecture writer. I was sneaking out. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide - Menus and Reviews - MenuPix New York City Brandy's Piano Bar. One place I went to a lot was the St. Marks Baths. $5 all-you-can-drink that was my bar menu., 2014 - 2023 VinePair Inc. Made In NYC, Bartenders: Now's Your Chance To Experience Barbados. I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. I returned to New York in 81 after 10 years as an expat. Even if it would attract the ladies, you couldnt give away an $8 IPA, a $15 Old Fashioned for free. Then it got to be a habit. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. I met Peter Hujar through Susan Sontag. Then it was getting a good time slot at CBGB, so you werent on last and werent on first. You couldnt get people to go to a club before midnight. Some of the best bars on the Upper East Side cultivate the feeling of "Old New York.". Did you come to see the show? But something wasnt right. Were shooting one of the final scenes in Smithereens where the main character, Paul, talks to a hooker in his graffiti-covered van the film was very influenced by the graffiti art and punk scene of that time, particularly on the Lower East Side. Sometimes you would cry, but most of the time you were just stunned, like it wasnt real. In the lot there are three vehicles. Up the street from my apartment was 8 B.C., a club run by two friends of mine. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. So the artists would often have free rein, and would sometimes sneak up to the roof, especially for the Fourth of July and other events like that. They are not obliged to talk to anyone. Learn more about historic floods. Flemings Reunion Party - MurphGuide: NYC Bar Guide The old downtown art scene was floundering, while some people, like Robert Mapplethorpe, had risen. The Oldest Bars on the Upper East Side East 86th St Association The legendary Tommy Rowles at Bemelman's (photo credit: VictoriaMcGinley.com) The Oldest Bars on the Upper East Side April 08, 2017 Tracking down the oldest bar on the Upper East Side is no easy task! We also created a percussive orchestra that was all pots and pans and a lot of racket, and that was the debut of the band Pulsallama. I slept when I was exhausted and awoke when I was refreshed. Mozart. It's now a Samsung store. The bathroom of Area nightclub, which was located on 157 Hudson Street and opened in 1983. It all depended on who was playing. 40 Iconic Restaurants That Are No Longer Around - Delish He had intended whatever conversation we were having to go in another direction. And yet, over the years, bars continued to try to offer ladies night deals (whether discounted or completely free drinks) and various factions had tried to stop them. I was kind of tomboyish, but also pretty poor. A cracked bathroom mirror reflecting a sink full of discarded puffs, eyeliner brushes and trays of blush. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. The people who were chic, the downtowners, pretty much just wore black that could instantly give you a look. I would get some bus money, some pizza money, some soda money and some money to be able to get into a jam. Likewise, by the end of the 1990s, the cocktail revival was just about to start in earnest in Manhattan pioneering cocktail bars such as Angels Share and Milk & Honey would open in 1993 and 1999, respectively and the craft beer and brewpub scene was in its infancy, and just about to explode in the aughts. It was sort of 11 to 7. I remember I was drawn to the ad for the loft because it was in a place that sounded like trifecta; my father had taken me to the track, so that seemed comforting and familiar. I lived on the quiet end of Hollis, Queens. I worked part-time for gallerist Annina Nosei. Clear all filters. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s - Alamedainfo Then there were the rumors that they were going to make a movie of the play, and naturally we all thought, Oh my god, were gonna be in a movie! But when the time came to make that movie, they only took Denzel, Larry, and Adolph. No one could believe that this B-actor was about to occupy the White House. It had a tub in the kitchen, a tiny little toilet bowl in a closet of a room, one narrow hallway room and a slightly bigger front room maybe $210. There was a place called Columbus, on Columbus Avenue and 69th Street. A few blocks away was the Ninth Street Bakery. This scrappy 16mm movie that people werent sure if it was a story movie or a documentary, everybody looked at it and said, I know that guy! They werent public figures; they were locally known graffiti artists, break-dancers, hip-hop M.C.s or D.J.s. This was a moment in Manhattan history that had never really been seen before and hasnt been seen since. A short-lived club in the 1980s East Village. I probably dont need to tell you that bar owners like Reynolds werent letting women (or ladies) drink for free out of the goodness of their hearts. Are you going to this? It was make coffee, check in and then get busy stripping wood. Usually Id take the bus down to Mickeys [Chinese Chance] at 1 University Place, where Julian Schnabel was the cook. But I had no idea what I was photographing. It was really like a combination of living theater and installation art, very communal. It seems we could start later than this. But it did make me very, very moody there were a lot of underground clubs, and they wouldnt jump off till 1 a.m. And I just loved that experience. Open in Google Maps. Where To Drink On The Upper East Side - The Infatuation Sometimes you would want to go to a Police concert, but you wouldnt want to tell your friends, because they would be, like, Thats so commercial and gross. When it was the Dead Kennedys, Ari Up, The Slits, Public Image Ltd, you were all in full agreement. Here, women can drink all they want all night long for absolutely nothing, wrote The New York Times in covering the phenomenon in April of 1991. My life was spiraling downward. Arent the both of us up early, I said. Peter had no small talk at all. Everyone writes that I was his tour manager, but thats not what it was. You would go up to the club and then you would look for a friend, like, Wheres so-and-so? Oh, he got the thing; he got the sickness. It would just ruin your night. Howard was Lili LaLeen, a German film actress in a vintage Mary McFadden. When me and Run would go to each others houses and rap together, we would go into the attic. Then you checked to see if there was anything in the theater papers for auditions. Everyone associates me with Jesse Jackson, but actually James Brown is the person I consider most like a mentor. The painter David Salle in his Manhattan studio, 1983. Before wine bars, bank branches, and sushi restaurants took over the East Village, there were hole-in-the-wall clubs like 8BC, a gallery and performance space on Eighth Street between Avenues B and C. Opened in 1983, the place was over by the end of 1985. Upper East Side Aug. 11, 1972 It was a case of mistaken identity, revenge for the sensational rubout of Joey Gallo at Umberto's four months earlier, only this one led to two innocent meat. If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. (I might be the only person who never lived in a scary New York apartment. I had half of the third floor, which was sort of the high-ceilinged fancy room, though it had long, long since stopped being fancy. Although it didn't hold up against Chili's, TGI Fridays, and Applebee's, there was a time when it was fairly ubiquitous throughout the states. Id walk to Cooper Union, where I was teaching. If you just wanted to grab a sandwich, youd go to Burger Heaven. Having had an alcoholic mother, he did not like being around people who drank much. There's always a striking contrast to what it was and what it is now. When Flashdance came out in 1983, Paramount put me up in the Carlyle Hotel to do promotion. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. Best 30 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY with Reviews - Yellow Pages Miller, Edited by Kate Guadagnino and Thessaly La Force. A lot of it was crack. Every night was a huge passeggiata with people perusing the blankets. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. Wed go to bed among the broken glass, booze and old cigarettes. I would go to these obscure classes around the city that were mostly for dancers. The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 is sometimes used as a marker of the beginning of the end of the art world as it was then known, as if the two were somehow related, as if an election ushered in some new aesthetic permission, a new vulgarity, which is really a kind of negative magical thinking. For one assignment, the paper sent me to Washington Heights to photograph what it said was a riot. Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. Top Gay Clubs & Bars in Upper East Side (New York City) - Tripadvisor An important place to have breakfast was Buffas, on the corner of Lafayette and Prince youd see Jim Jarmusch and Jonathan Demme in the booths there. We just called it The Bar, which morphed into Ze Bar, like with a fake French accent. Then we had Woody Allen. And they said, Yeah, you can have that they werent even thinking about it. It was all happening at the same time; there was a lot of yin and yang. How the Original TGI Fridays Helped Create the Singles Bar - InsideHook I met Kim [Gordon] through a mutual friend. Points of interest include Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, Hunter College, Gracie Mansion and Carl Schurz Park. I did not know what my passions or imagination would lead to. 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY About Search Results Sort: Default All BBB Rated A+/A Coupons View all businesses that are OPEN 24 Hours 1. Foursquare. In a letter about her trip, she wrote, When pages needed to be retyped, Jimmy did the retyping. During this period, Manhattan was where the action was, but there were exceptions to the rule: The Bronx: The Writers Bench, a meeting point where graffiti writers would watch passing trains adorned with their work; Disco Fever, the hip-hop club where Run-DMC played their first show; Fashion Moda, a community-minded art space that showed work by emerging artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lady Pink and Jane Dickson. I had to be at the theater by 7 oclock so I could start my process and get ready before half-hour call. I started spending a third of my time there. We became sort of like brothers. It was a very different kind of neighborhood from the one I grew up in in Harlem just starting to be gentrified. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. We were both rather exotic in each others eyes. Two weeks later we were begging to let people come watch us rehearse. Mornings spent alone, writing in a studio in the West Village. Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. The apartment, at 1060 Fifth Avenue, at 87th Street, was like a fantasy apartment huge, with a view of the reservoir. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. But, most women slugging free beers at Brother Jimmys or complimentary Champagne at Jungle Jims or on-the-house Slalom Shots at Ski Bar arguably enjoyed these ladies night deals. Lobster Newburg as it looks today. (Never let on to a dog youre afraid of him, my Uncle Charlie would say.) Two editors at Simon & Schuster thought it was terrific, but they said, You have to produce this yourself, and we can possibly get you a distribution deal. In the '80s, 25 East 61st st. was home to B. Harris & Sons, jeweler to the stars! I had gone to a place when I was a kid called Hamburger Express, and the hamburgers used to come around on a little choo-choo train. Like the Womens Christian Temperance Union. Upper East Side Bars - Directory of the Best Bars on the UES I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. And right away we see David Bowie, wearing a suit and sitting completely by himself in one of the hottest new clubs in the city. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. Otherwise neighborhood wasnt as important as finding a space one guy I knew, the photographer Patrick McMullan, lived in the coat-check room of a former hotel. A chance encounter with David Bowie at a downtown nightclub. It was a brilliantly sunny day, and standing outside was Dustin Hoffman. We blacked out the skylights and windows and painted most of it gold very Warholian. Then our leading lady, Susan Berman, broke her leg, and we had to wait for her to get out of the cast. By my late teens, people used to tell me, You and you sister, its like its your job to go clubbing. Maybe five nights a week Id leave Brooklyn around 8:30 or 9 oclock. It was a total nexus. Could you just call LL so she could just say hi? Everybody knew I knew all the rappers and everything. Upper East Side - New York - The Infatuation In the summer of 1992, New York Magazine published a photo of the Slalom Shots alongside a brief blurb and, according to Block, That more or less started the anarchy in the neighborhood.. Denzel had just gotten St. It wasnt actually the best place to hear or see bands, but it was always exciting. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I tried to write every single day, first thing in the morning, 10 a.m. I came here from Europe at age 22 in the 1960s already married and went to Park Avenue.) Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. Galleries and museums didnt exhibit their work at that time. Id been divorced and on my own since 1977 I had started the business with my husband a decade earlier and it felt like women were waking up. [1] Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. She and Larry Gagosian had this space, it was a condo loft in a building on West Broadway. The silence, as they say, was deafening. But I did it anyway. Kamalis clothes cleverly combined athletic wear and fabric with high-fashion cuts and silhouettes, perfectly embodying the era. The era might have been old New Yorks last real gasp a time when the very streets, dirty and unsafe as they were, seemed infused with possibility. On the other end of the spectrum, a growing mens rights movement would continue to try and put the kibosh on ladies night deals throughout Manhattan and the suburbs, even if their arguments werent necessarily made in good faith. He said he was going to lunch with some friends, and did I want to join? Some of them were lying about their age and I knew it, but I didnt care. Being at the Carlyle was amazing, but I was still an undergrad at Yale at the time, and the whole thing felt unreal, as though I was living two lives. One of many iconic Upper East Side eateries owned by the Santo Family Group . Everyone was very excited. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. He would maybe drink half a glass of wine. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. Open in Google Maps. On July 11, the guests included novelists Harold Brodkey, Mona Simpson, Richard Price and Scott Sommer (who might be better known if he hadnt died at 42). Ann Magnuson performing at Kenny Scharfs opening atop his Ultima Suprema Deluxa Cadillac on November 14, 1983. It changed everything. I got a loft at Clinton and Stanton, which was far from fashionable. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth performing at CBGB in 1983. Police barricades up and down Second Avenue. Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. Thurston Moore would take me to see hardcore groups like Black Flag. I never wore gold jewelry I didnt want to be a target. The bakery, located in the front and open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., is great for an excellent croissant and coffee break. I drove up in my Maserati Bora at around 5 oclock in the morning and walked in with Billy Idol, who was a buddy of mine. People thought I was a little crazy. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. I felt like I was having the best entertainment of my life, because people were going up and down the aisle, going, Loose joints People were talking throughout the whole movie going, Yo, shut up! It was just like the kung fu movies they were the same audience. 26 places sorted by traveler favorites Clear all filters 1. Silently. Veselka was the go-to place to eat and get cake the lemon bundt or the mohn. Home; . It was almost a surreal experience, because I had the feeling that this person is only vaguely here. So were in this abandoned lot on a corner of 11th Avenue, somewhere in the high 40s or low 50s and not far from the old deserted elevated slate railroad that became the Highline. I was breaking up with somebody a long, slow breakup. Adolph would regale us with stories. Hear Christopher Walken talk about seeing movies during the day: One evening Kenny Scharf and his whole group which included Jean-Michel Basquiat, and certainly Keith Haring were hanging out at the artists studios at the Clocktower Gallery [in the former New York Life Insurance Company Building at Leonard Street and Broadway].
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