At one end of my block was J.G. I lived on the quiet end of Hollis, Queens. My first loss was my partner, around the time Grace Kelly died in 1982. Youd sit at the bar and someone would say: Hey, were going to Danceteria. Or theyd have a car and youd find yourself in the East Village, which was a total war zone, with junkies passed out and men building fires in trash cans. I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. When we went out it was to perform. Arent the both of us up early, I said. She was very busy editing books of her own, among them Jane Fondas Workout Book, Thomas Keneallys Schindlers List, Margaret Atwoods Bluebeards Egg and Rosalynn Carters memoir First Lady From Plains. At one point Nan traveled to the Carters home in Plains, Georgia, an ordinary split-level with an imperial iron fence that had been Richard Nixons from Key Biscayne (the Carters didnt believe in waste). Certainly at night, few people were there, and few were there on the weekends. Ski Bar turned into a Taco Bell and Block moved to Telluride, Colo., where he and Singer opened a similar bar, Poachers Pub. The early 80s were sort of the beginning of serious gentrification. Book with OpenTable. 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. During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. 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. I would then either go to work or go to an opening because Macys closed at 8:45 or something, so you had to move on. I didnt know what I was doing. I made a deal for him to do a cheapo job by trading a Brice Marden plus $10,000. I was 19. The manager, Dorian Mecir, had a heart of gold. It seems we could start later than this. The essence of Upper East Side gentility, Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle is also the last public space to display the mural work of Ludwig Bemelmans, creator of the iconic children's book character and prolific illustrator of the 1940s and '50s. It all depended on who was playing. Even by the early 1990s, the Upper East Side remained haunted by what had happened there in 1986, when the infamous Preppy Killer, Robert Chambers, had pounded tequila and beer chasers at Dorrians Red Hand with Jennifer Levin before killing her in Central Park later that evening. The Upper West Side has always been a great place to buy food, with terrific places for fish and vegetables. There is a two drink minimum. People used to say, The East Village will be gone when theres a Gap, and then, in the late 80s, one opened on the corner of St. Marks and Second Avenue. Jumbo-sized martini glasses smeared with ruby lipstick. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth performing at CBGB in 1983. Then it was getting a good time slot at CBGB, so you werent on last and werent on first. I returned to New York in 81 after 10 years as an expat. Pretty girls in pajamas peeked in on my occupied space. I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. Before that it had been pot. Id work for 12 hours straight, prepping for my show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. He had always been like a surrogate father to me, and when his manager quit midway through the tour, he called me to come and just make sure people werent ripping him off at the venues every night. That completely opened my mind. It was before he was onstage and all that; he was just starting out. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, a boy like me didnt know there was a place for him in the world like that. As Andy turned the pages, he said things like Oh, thats nice, Oh, that could be larger, Oh At the end of it, he said, Yes, I think we should do your book. There were very few artists there. Zipped into a distressed red velvet number, I was the wacky blonde June Buntt, who liked to say the second T is silent. I was married to the astronaut Brad Buntt, who liked to say hed been in space for years now. The writer Dennis Cooper, in blue jean coveralls, was Mavis Purvis, a lesbian farmer living on a rural commune with her girlfriend. When he got sick, we were in a downward spiral for a year and a half. Since no ones making them, they dont.. Everywhere else it was club kids and b-boys with foxtails hanging from their clothes; I had the shoulder pads and the spiky hair and all that. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. hip-hop open mic nights and more than a few not-entirely-cool bars around the Upper East Side. Dont come ringing my doorbell! I remember we would go from person to person. The elevated West Side Highway, meanwhile, was a place you could ski. Mos), a Tex-Mex slash surfer-themed bar with a totemistic statue of Geronimo the Apache Surfer hanging by the entrance and countless big screen TVs. Jean-Michel Basquiat wandered in at some point a neighbor with whom we had a nodding acquaintance. Not only did Mr. Brown come on with me, but Muhammad Ali did, too. Poets ruled the evening Tim Dlugos, still a few years from writing his haunting G-9 poem about an AIDS ward, was Bernadette of Lourdes. I had just moved the gallery to Franklin Street in TriBeCa from West 57th Street. There was likewise Brother Jimmys, a Southern BBQ joint that served overproof punch out of rubber garbage pails. Silently. I was 16 when we started going to the Roxy, and my guest list was 100 people, and we were kind of like the ornaments on the tree. I served eggplant parmigiana and a stupendous chocolate cake that everyone always wanted. Hear Rosie Perez talk about her first time at CBGB: Six days a week I arrived every morning between 7:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart E. 86th St., NYC [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="204 gal_title="E 86th St NYC Photos"] York Ave., NYC [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="205 gal_title="York Ave NYC Photos"] 1st. The Upper East Side isn't the first or second or 12th neighborhood that comes to mind for fun late-night bars, but that doesn't mean you need to head across the park or 70 blocks south just to take 2am shots of tequila with strangers. And yet, plenty of ladies were also against them. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. I was living at almost the exact point where the Village meets the East Village, in the Colonnade Row building, right across the street from the Public Theater. Best Upper East Side bars in NYC. Thats where I first met [the late street-style photographer] Bill Cunningham, I think. Guerrilla art activities took place all over. The sidewalks along St. Marks over to Astor Place were just as lively they were a sort of souk where you could buy back what the junkies had stolen from your apartment. 25 East 61st street is the rear extension of 673 Madison Avenue, an Italianate brownstone built in 1871 by architect John G. Prague as part of a project for the developer John McCool which included a row of 5 brownstones on Madison Avenue, and 17 houses on 61st street. 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. Then, I didnt have the kind of formal board that one would today. The night was such a hoot we tried to reprise it a few times, but the tenor slid from hilarity to melodrama, and, like so many ecstasies of the era, soon just crumbled and fell apart. CBs wasnt the best sound; it was such a long and narrow space that if it was crowded you couldnt really see anything, unless you were standing on the side of the stage, and then you just heard the stage sound. If you remember Flemings, this event is for you: Saturday, December 4 Fleming's Reunion Party It was sort of 11 to 7. Shan among its residents. I invited him to dinner. 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. 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. An unpublished male nude Polaroid from 1981 by photographer Tom Bianchi. I decided to start a music fanzine around 82; I called it Killer. When Todd wasnt looking, Id be running off copies and stapling them together. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. You couldnt do nothing stupid or bad because your friends mother was your mother, too. By the early 1970s, 20 to 25 percent of American couples had met at a bar, according to Stanford University research. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. Wed go to bed among the broken glass, booze and old cigarettes. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. The gallery space was on the first floor; our offices were in the basement. I met Kim [Gordon] through a mutual friend. By 1968, 85 bars called the neighborhood home, like Gleason's, slightly further uptown near Yorkville, and similarly decorated to Friday's, with Tiffany lamps and the ornate wooden bar that had graced the Schaefer Beer pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair. The weekend that it happened, I got a call at 2 oclock in the morning from the owner of the theater. For one assignment, the paper sent me to Washington Heights to photograph what it said was a riot. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. [Kim] would work one day, and Id work the next. Darryl McDaniels, musician and member of Run-DMC. No ID check, nothing. Patsy Cline. The silence, as they say, was deafening. Write a Review! And shoulder pads. Sam [Samuel L. Jackson] and I bought a brownstone in Harlem around 1981. We went from our home in the East 60s, with Jimmy Carter and me in one car (driven by a member of the Secret Service) and Nan and Rosalynn in another. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. And, of course, so did the men. CBGB was just up the street, and I performed there with my band or as a solo poet many times. Have a good day. His hands were in his pockets now. 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. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. It was almost a surreal experience, because I had the feeling that this person is only vaguely here. 26 places sorted by traveler favorites Clear all filters 1. When I crossed the bridge, I had my Saturday Night Fever moment the city was for the taking. 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. There are a lot of places to eat eggs and pancakes in the middle of the day on the Upper East Side. Im a child of the Midwestern upper-middle class. It wasnt a big deal. The mayoral election of Rudy Giuliani in 1994 would favor the NIMBYs, as he sent task forces around to raid bars, enforce cabaret laws with hefty fines, and even enact Operation Last Call, having police officers carry a meter to check noise levels around closing time. You did a lot of the auditions immediately. To me it was all an art project. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. 1. Everything was different for me. And I just loved that experience. The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. And the hair. Wendy Wild made magic mushroom punch. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. In 80, I got a job at Todds Copy on Mott Street. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. In the '80s, 25 East 61st st. was home to B. Harris & Sons, jeweler to the stars! Like the Womens Christian Temperance Union. We had a studio on Bleecker near Seventh Avenue. 1. I remember being in someones loft it might have been [artist] Brian Hunts with a group of friends, watching the inauguration on a little black-and-white television. Brandy's Piano Bar. We became sort of like brothers. Clear all filters. I tried never to leave my ZIP code. And the director, Charles Fuller, was like, No, youre not really ready you just think you are! Everybody was anxious to do it for an audience, so by the time we opened, it was amazing. The people who were chic, the downtowners, pretty much just wore black that could instantly give you a look. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. I started spending a third of my time there. A cracked bathroom mirror reflecting a sink full of discarded puffs, eyeliner brushes and trays of blush. I could wake up in the middle of the night and hear his typewriter going. One is the van that were filming in thats our set but also a place to stay warm in between shots one is a car for running errands and then theres a truck, guarded by two Doberman pinschers, with all of our lighting and camera equipment. And then we had Robert Rauschenberg, a rascal and a great man. I was like, Oh cool, youre doing art too? Bands would put up fliers all over SoHo; there were wheat-paste fliers everywhere. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. He said he was going to lunch with some friends, and did I want to join? In the 1980s, the restaurant began to decline, as it switched up menu items in favor of more chicken and fish. I made a short performance called Life Without Grace, a kind of eulogy. I said, Im very happy for you, youre selling a lot of tickets. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. I was sneaking out. Other times, it literally meant all-you-could-drink, whatever you wanted to drink, on every single night of the week. I knew running back up the stairs was a bad idea. NR is a cocktail bar on the Upper East Side that serves inventive drinks and solid ramen. 1. Steve Landiss photograph for fashion designer Norma Kamalis 1981 Sweats campaign. People would bring me their videos to pop in. And then we said, We gotta do the real hip-hop that were actually doing at the block parties and at the house parties and at the park parties. So we decided to make it all beat no music, just me and Run [Joseph Simmons, another founding member of Run-DMC] doing the real hardcore, just rhyming on this record. Answer (1 of 6): While not classy in haute cuisine, these long-gone restaurants were very popular in the 70s and 80s too: * The Caramba! May 6, 2009. Our club-hop starts with the titular Limelight, Gatien's firstand still favoriteNew York club. If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. Many of the bars of this era were, in fact, themed, and sometimes cheesily so. Then later, it became about getting a gig at Danceteria, Mudd Club they were all little milestone achievements. 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. James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. When I first moved to Manhattan I was eager to get back to the Bronx as often as possible, so I would go to the Pathmark on 207th Street and pack bags to try to make change. I would drink quite a lot of wine. Lines around the block. Youd get into costume, put makeup on, make sure your props were in the right place, talk to the stage manager. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. You simply traveled to where things were happening. Maxi Cohen, Area, 1985, Ladies Rooms Around The World, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio and Chambers Fine Art. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Lower East Side sort of a punk rock version of my mothers Junior League group, which I started with some other girls from the East Village hosted several events at the club. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. I got up at anywhere from 3 to 5 in the morning and worked as long as I could. Nearby spots like Bear Bar began capitalizing on the traffic by offering their own competing ladies night deals. JAM gallery founder Linda Goode Bryant, circa 1981-82. We could each get a full breakfast scrambled eggs, hash browns, whole wheat toast with an endless cup of coffee for $5 with tip. It was packed every night; it won the Pulitzer Prize that year. Now nothings open after 11. So when they talked to me about playing the character Lydia Grant, the dance teacher, I said, Yes, I would be so interested if I could also be responsible for the choreography. Because by this time, I had been developing as a choreographer, working with the Henry Street Playhouse and the New York Shakespeare Festival, and I really loved doing it. We had great people like Billy Nunn [Radio Raheem in Spike Lees Do the Right Thing], Skeeter [Ellis Williams, who was in The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway]. Block says it was the first non-nightclub bar on the Upper East Side to have a DJ booth, in this case a ski lift gondola repurposed from Killington Ski Resort. 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. It was on the 13th floor of an old city building, and you had to walk up a whole floor from the 12th, which was the last floor served by an elevator. Some of them were lying about their age and I knew it, but I didnt care. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. Or his family didnt come, and the landlord put his work in a dumpster. I think that free drinks for women is discriminatory and a bad idea, wrote Cynthia Heimel, a feminist columnist, in the November 1991 issue of Playboy. Everyone associates me with Jesse Jackson, but actually James Brown is the person I consider most like a mentor. I worked in my office at home, an eight-room walk-up on the Upper West Side. Like Clubhouse on York Avenue, which intentionally offered a frat house-like atmosphere. This was a luxury ski town, not the Upper East Side, and he had to ultimately tone things down. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. That is, until 2008 when Bennigan's went bankrupt. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who lived in New York City in the early 80s. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. 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.
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