We had a prom, a debutante ball, a ladies wrestling night. Nan Goldin was a block up, and William Burroughs lived downstairs. As told to Kate Guadagnino,Elizabeth Gumport,Merrell Hambleton and Erin Sheehy. A lot of it was crack. Drunk patrons would dance on the bar top, well before Coyote Ugly, which would open in January of 1993, had popularized such shenanigans. 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. 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! CBGB was just up the street, and I performed there with my band or as a solo poet many times. My primary motive back then was to put on a show, and anything that slowed me down from that had to be curtailed. 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. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. Darryl McDaniels, musician and member of Run-DMC. A few blocks away was the Ninth Street Bakery. What if they just let all women drink for free? I was finishing my dissertation and working as the porn critic for the New York Native, so Id go up to the Adonis at 51st and Eighth and different theaters in Times Square. I was very attached to the Madison Avenue Bookshop, because of my Harvard connection to its owner, Arthur Lehman Loeb, and its excellence. We became sort of like brothers. When he got sick, we were in a downward spiral for a year and a half. Plodding. Everyone I knew hated Reagan and couldnt wait for him to get out of office. Then, I didnt have the kind of formal board that one would today. 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. Ski Bar turned into a Taco Bell and Block moved to Telluride, Colo., where he and Singer opened a similar bar, Poachers Pub. We were very, very thin. The crass reason, of course, is because since the beginning of time, straight men have wanted to be drinking in the same place women are drinking because, yes, men are pigs. This was a moment in Manhattan history that had never really been seen before and hasnt been seen since. And Bowie had no idea that was my background. Here are our favorites. But those deals enticed 22-year-olds to get out of their apartments. There were very few places to work out back then. 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. Soon there was an all-out war being waged for putting butts on barstools, and in these days before the internet, the bars would advertise their increasingly outrageous specials in the Village Voice and free local fliers sloppily stacked at the entrance to ATM banks, while hoping for write-ups in New York Magazines weekly goings-on section. When me and Run would go to each others houses and rap together, we would go into the attic. And if I missed it, I felt really bad. If I threw a party, by midnight there was probably an especially good mix of people there. I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. It was in this desolate area between TriBeCa and Chinatown, and I knew every alley. My days changed depending on what show I was putting on, what sort of rehearsal schedule I had and how late Id been up the night before, though I had a rule for myself: Always be back before sunrise. 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. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. I couldnt work in color because I couldnt afford to make color prints. We blacked out the skylights and windows and painted most of it gold very Warholian. The robust economy powered unfathomable riches into New York's in the late 90s: In SoHo restaurants, Madison Avenue boutiques, and East Side real-estate offices, no price is too high for the lords . Hearing hip-hop on the street, minimalist new music, free jazz it all added to this fabric that was a landscape. Melon I ate a lot of hamburgers there. In 80, I got a job at Todds Copy on Mott Street. The idea of hip-hop hadnt really gelled. Within a few days, he came to my apartment, which is how I wound up doing the arrangements for Lets Dance.. We were just taken with each other. 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. The all-you-can-drink deals just dont happen these days, because the rents are so high, says Block. Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. I was living with my parents in the Alfred E. Smith projects on the Lower East Sides waterfront. Ann Magnuson performing at Kenny Scharfs opening atop his Ultima Suprema Deluxa Cadillac on November 14, 1983. Or I would throw a party. When Canadian-born club impresario Peter Gatien came to New York City in the early '80s, after. [1] Tuesday Trivia. See menus, reviews, ratings and delivery info for the best dining and most popular restaurants in East 80s. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. You simply traveled to where things were happening. 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. The Upper West Side has always been a great place to buy food, with terrific places for fish and vegetables. 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. Of course, it wasnt just rising rents, Mayor Giuliani, and smart phones that would kill ladies night on the Upper East Side. I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. It was a small scene, people like writer Stephen Saban, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel [Basquiat] and Kenny Scharf. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. Youd press your lips to the bottom and Slalom Girls would pour a combo Jaeger/tequila shot that would shush down the slope and into your face. I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. Youd think he would have been the most outrageous-looking person there, but he looked like a businessman. Mozart. There was a great camaraderie. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. Honestly, my mind was empty, but I wanted to be consumed by that emptiness. In the mornings, Id walk along 125th Street to the store, which I opened in 82. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. I slept when I was exhausted and awoke when I was refreshed. By the end of the relationship, I was living there. I would write longhand, sit down at the typewriter and type what I had, take those pages across the room to a different chair, sit down and work between the double spaces, do another draft. Certainly at night, few people were there, and few were there on the weekends. While her friend Sara explained, We dont even like this place. May 6, 2009. Next door to my apartment on East Eighth and Avenue C was the Green Oasis Community Garden, and I got involved with that. I just wanted to be in New York. 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. They were on 51st or 52nd between Fifth and Madison. He claims the resort-area locals didnt know what to do with him when he began offering the same all-you-can-drink, ladies night-type deals. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. David McDermott and Peter McGough, artists. I had no student loans and the housing was still affordable. I was staying in Garys loft on East Fifth Street between Bowery and Second, on summer break from the writing program at Syracuse, where Id been studying with Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. The apartment, at 1060 Fifth Avenue, at 87th Street, was like a fantasy apartment huge, with a view of the reservoir. Between 1981 and 1983 I was commuting between New York and a rented apartment in Rome, researching a book about my Italian ancestry that would be called Unto the Sons. My wife, Nan, would visit me in Italy as often as she could, but always briefly. Other times, it literally meant all-you-could-drink, whatever you wanted to drink, on every single night of the week. We always had coke, and many guests brought their own. 1. When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. Their approach was direct and curt, no frills not self-consciously art-directed no frills, but Old Country, 19th-century no frills. One of my responses was to just keep working. Then you would call at 10, or 10 after, to check in with your agent to see if there was anything going that day. Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over. My first photo lab was called Hy Photo. I lived and still live in a large duplex at the corner of Park Avenue and 80th Street, in a 1907 building designed by Delano and Aldrich. Sometimes that meant dispensing a free keg or two of Bud Light until it ran out during a traditional off-night, like Tuesday or Wednesday. It wasnt actually the best place to hear or see bands, but it was always exciting. When I was working at Newsweek, I often got out of work at two or three in the morning, and I would walk home up Madison Avenue often in stilettos from 49th to 74th and Lex. Sometimes it could just be too blasting. This was our morning ritual: Wed wake up, and if we had $5 on us wed go to the 103 Restaurant on Second Avenue and Sixth Street. I was eating very healthfully, which wasnt easy then, seeking out the few macrobiotic restaurants there were. The landlord turned off the plumbing, so wed defecate into garbage bags and throw them out the window. Creative Time ran Art on the Beach on the landfill that is now Battery Park City back then it was just a huge field of sand. [By 1 a.m.] Id be somewhere like [the TriBeCa No Wave club] Tier 3, seeing [the electronic Berlin band] Malaria!, and then walking over to Daves Luncheonette. He slowed and turned around: Yeah, you too.. They were relatively small, rundown theaters; they tended to have a fair amount of drug use going on. They paid me like a tenth of what they paid me to do the acting, and it became my whole life. At 11 to 12, Id had a nine-hour day. If it was a Thursday, Id be rushing to get all my work done, because that was the night I went dancing. After three, four months there, we decided to turn our loft into a nightclub. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. We could each get a full breakfast scrambled eggs, hash browns, whole wheat toast with an endless cup of coffee for $5 with tip. You were constantly on the phone: Did you see this in the paper? People divided themselves into camps based on which one they favored I liked Odessa better, but Id go to both. 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. Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. Giuliani sending his goons around to raid things. I had just moved the gallery to Franklin Street in TriBeCa from West 57th Street. (Never let on to a dog youre afraid of him, my Uncle Charlie would say.) The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. Today hes in his mid-50s and out of the bar business entirely. I got a loft at Clinton and Stanton, which was far from fashionable. But, pre-AIDS anyway, it was also more diverse. Youd walk in there and all the actors would be sitting around, it was almost like a club, and youd see all these people: Danny Aiello, Warren Beatty. Part of how they paid us was they had to strip some wood the house had five fireplaces, and the foyer was original, and all wood. 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. A chance encounter with David Bowie at a downtown nightclub. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. . In school, I never fit in at all. Team Infatuation August 19, 2022. Foursquare. That was Sucker M.C.s., I was still living at home. 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. It was a walk-up. JAM gallery founder Linda Goode Bryant, circa 1981-82. Many of the bars of this era were, in fact, themed, and sometimes cheesily so. Like Outback, an Australian-themed bar on 93rd and Third Avenue, which hosted Men Are Pigs nights three times a week. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. The bodegas played loud salsa music late into the night, as Dominican men played dominoes on the corner. Thankfully, most seemed to only be of the public urination and inconsiderate noise variety, angering wealthy locals. Rival crews had been dancing in the subway, and it turned into a fight over who had won. They would shy away with confused expressions, whispering to their friends. 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. At that time, Chelsea was unexplored territory. One of his favorite pieces was the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms, sung by Dame Janet Baker. Then we had Woody Allen. Patsy Cline. Al Sharpton (right) backstage at Madison Square Garden on June 11, 1974. I just left the house on a Sunday, went to make the record. It seems we could start later than this. It made me immobile. I went over and started chatting with him, and we became completely engrossed in this conversation about jazz. Points of interest include Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, Hunter College, Gracie Mansion and Carl Schurz Park. 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 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. The whole reason I was able to raise money for my causes was because of him. I was one of the champions of the golden age of promiscuity, though that all ended with AIDS. . After shows at La MaMa, we would go to the gay bar on East Fourth Street and Second Ave. They could be stimulated by the heterosexual pornography that was on the screen. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. 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]. (212) 861-2290. They put their names all over the mens room! The theater had been trashed. 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. Upper East Side. The conversation was very interesting. There was a thing I did every Friday night because my boyfriend [now husband, artist Carroll Dunham] worked at Time magazine, so I wasnt out looking for guys. You wanted to be there when it was happening, and then youd migrate at around 2:30 to an after-hours club. We would go till 4 a.m. Hell, we would go past 4 a.m. This bar, deep inside the St. Regis on Fifth Avenue, is one of the few New York hotel bars whose . The writer Gay Taleses social calendar for October 1983. Like Geronimos Bamba Bay Cafe (a.k.a. I tried to focus on my art. Coming from China, I was eager to be accepted in this new environment, which felt like a monstrous machine indifferent, its frenetic energy fueled by ambition. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. You couldnt get people to go to a club before midnight. When I crossed the bridge, I had my Saturday Night Fever moment the city was for the taking. Maybe he could do your book under that contract. So I went to the Factory and stood at a tall table with Andy and Bob, and Andy went through the dummy. Wed spend hours getting our outfits together buying stuff at Canal Plastics Center, stapling photo booth pictures onto our jackets. And shoulder pads. It was the three of us. Occasionally, a costumed employee they dubbed Jgerman would appear from the back wielding bottles of the potent German digestif in his hands, which he then free-poured into ladies mouths as the crowd chanted his theme song: Jgerman, Jgerman, if you cant drink it, no one can!, It was like feeding baby birds, recalls Capobianco. See more ideas about memories, restaurant, howard johnson's. Jane Fonda had recently released her workout tapes, and it was the first opportunity a lot of women had to exercise. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. And they said, Yeah, you can have that they werent even thinking about it. The bakery, located in the front and open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., is great for an excellent croissant and coffee break. Bars & Clubs Gay Bars. Id get to the gallery late afternoon. Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. We considered the food too depressingly awful. Those were developers terms. I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. 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. Somebody might have called during the night to say they might have job opportunities, so you always checked your machine. Ski Bar would issue custom-made lift tickets good for eight drinks apiece. I suppose I should have loved New York; things were very good for me. 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. The first single we ever made [was in 1983]: Sucker M.C.s was the B-side of Its Like That. Its Like That was a record that was talking about all of the things that was going on in communities, society and also the world. 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. Id dance until about two in the morning and then Id go back to work. Broadway 96 [Club Broadway] was more geared to black and Latino youth and that was definitely a wilder place. A walk across the Williamsburg Bridge just to save a subway token. 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). The silence, as they say, was deafening. Cities . 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. Youd see people that you hadnt seen in months in the street with KS [Kaposis sarcoma] lesions; people would just disappear. Delmonico's, 21-23 William Street (1831-1923, intermittently thereafter) In 1831 Swiss brothers John and Peter Delmonico founded the city's first . 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. Peter was straight out of Damon Runyon and Weegee. I liked to work out in the late afternoon, because in the morning I wanted to save every iota of energy for my work and the store. Live Psychic on East 84th offered free drinks and $10 tarot card readings from, yes, live psychics on a platform to the left of the dance floor, while single ladies shimmied to songs like Right Said Freds Im Too Sexy. While American Trash, a biker-themed bar, had literal garbage on the walls and ceiling. The weekend that it happened, I got a call at 2 oclock in the morning from the owner of the theater. In a way, its ironic Ski Bar continues to have such a strong presence on social media as Block figures social media is the very reason why you dont see these types of bars and binge-a-rific drinking deals any more. I got up at anywhere from 3 to 5 in the morning and worked as long as I could. PM: We refused to take a job. 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. As Brad Lauren, a 23-year-old production assistant claimed at the time, having just paid $3.50 for a Miller Lite that ladies were drinking gratis: Its the most socially acceptable form of discrimination., By 1994 lines were down the block at Ski Bar every night and the police started to put up barricades to keep people off Second Avenue. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. I was at the same place I am now, 222 Bowery. Clear all filters. Now nothings open after 11. Wheres Joe? Eventually youd realize that he died, and his family came and put his artwork in a dumpster. Money was secondary to being able to have this playground we could create. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. So we were really supporting ourselves! (I might be the only person who never lived in a scary New York apartment. But were not going to complain.. He said he was going to lunch with some friends, and did I want to join? 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. Amura ($$) Japanese Menu Available. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, a boy like me didnt know there was a place for him in the world like that. The manager, Dorian Mecir, had a heart of gold. Reagan really ruined it for me. I had the gallery in L.A., and I had just bought a house in Venice, so I was completely overextended, and it worried me. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. Basically, we walk in, get our free drinks, give the scum dirty looks and walk out, a college student named Rebecca said of the Far Out Lounge. In the mornings, usually around 11 a.m., Id go to one of the coffee shops around the corner on Avenue A. Odessa was one, and Leshkos was the other. You would have Rock Steady Crew and Zulu Nation on one side of the room, and this notorious gang called the Ball Busters on the other. 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.
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