James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. Steve Landiss photograph for fashion designer Norma Kamalis 1981 Sweats campaign. Write a Review! 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. If we werent in a group, I would walk over the bridge, because money was scarce and I wanted to have a token to go back out the next night. My dormitory was at the corner of East 14th Street and Union Square. I got up at anywhere from 3 to 5 in the morning and worked as long as I could. Broadway 96 [Club Broadway] was more geared to black and Latino youth and that was definitely a wilder place. Can you come back later? People would bring me their videos to pop in. A lot of it was crack. I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. I knew so many people in Harlem, I kept a second apartment in the Bronx, where I tried to be unseen. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. Then you checked to see if there was anything in the theater papers for auditions. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. The silhouette I was doing broad shoulders and thin hip was my way of reinterpreting masculine power, but with humor. Open in Google Maps. 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. 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. In the 1980s, the restaurant began to decline, as it switched up menu items in favor of more chicken and fish. 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. Elsewhere, so he was going back and forth between doing the TV show and the play. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . Block had learned of high-octane fish bowl cocktails during his brief Brother Jimmys stint and Ski Bar served its own versions with names like the Worldcup. And if we didnt have the money, wed go to the matre d it was absurd because this restaurant was in the middle of the slums and say, Can we pay you tomorrow? and theyd let us. The Best Historic Bars in Manhattan - PUNCH It was all happening at the same time; there was a lot of yin and yang. I made sure there was a hot tub in there. Its until you pass out.. And I got in trouble because I didnt get home until like 1 or 2 in the morning. I was 19. We considered the food too depressingly awful. No one says they have to leave a tip. I tended to feel particularly safe in the theaters. At night, if you headed south through long dark blocks to the meatpacking district, there were clubs and leather bars. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. The rain came through, so the clothes were all messed up by brown streaks. We used to have a TV with a VCR on at all times, playing MTV and the guys coming up. Sometimes you would cry, but most of the time you were just stunned, like it wasnt real. It was 1990 on Manhattans Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood was in the throes of a countrywide recession and unemployment was on the rise. 68. Courtesy of John Kelly, photograph by John Dugdale, John Kelly, performance and visual artist. Flemings Reunion Party - MurphGuide: NYC Bar Guide High-end lounges and clubs were beginning to pop up downtown, especially around the flourishing Meatpacking District, and if plenty of ladies would continue to drink for free at places like Lot 61, Moomba, Spy Bar, and Marquee, it was the male customers who were usually paying for the overpriced bottles of Grey Goose and Patrn. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide - Menus and Reviews - MenuPix New York City It was around the corner from another tiny spot called Chandalier. It needs to be said that, technically, ladies nights were illegal in New York and had been so for quite a time. It was frequented by many celebrities, especially actors and authors. When Flashdance came out in 1983, Paramount put me up in the Carlyle Hotel to do promotion. Ive gotta go to something, Bob will call you. I took the elevator down to the street and I saw a phone booth and the first thought that came to my mind was, Do not call any of your friends and tell them Andy Warhol is doing your book because I dont think thats for real. And sure enough, he didnt. Like the Womens Christian Temperance Union. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (far right) in Spell #7, 1979. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. Everyone writes that I was his tour manager, but thats not what it was. And then there were athletes and New York characters a bunch of people who I didnt know what they did, I just knew I saw them all the time. That was Sucker M.C.s., I was still living at home. Elaine's - Wikipedia I was working at the Whitney and helping to open different museum branches, so I was shuttling between 42nd Street, Stamford, Conn., and the downtown branch, which was just a few blocks from where I lived, on Front Street in the South Street Seaport area. Afterward, wed go to a club. Some of them were lying about their age and I knew it, but I didnt care. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. Where To Drink On The Upper East Side . I would take my work from that lab it was already mounted with dimensions like 48 by 72 inches, 40 by 60 inches carry it to the E train, down the stairs, then get off at Canal and carry it down to Leonard and up my four flights of stairs. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. Nan Goldin was a block up, and William Burroughs lived downstairs. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. It would be drag queens with punk kids, musicians and artists everyone. A crack den lined with books. 16 Timeless French Bistros and Brasseries in NYC - Eater NY But those deals enticed 22-year-olds to get out of their apartments. The people who were chic, the downtowners, pretty much just wore black that could instantly give you a look. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. 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]. Or with only a few comments in between. The Times considered it a a bit of a fallen Disneyworld, chalking that up to the eras young singles having no pretensions to hipness and a perhaps commendable lack of irony.. We blasted Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson. That was the best place to get fresh bread and rugelach and sweets. These 1980s Restaurants Didn't Stand the Test of Time - Eat This Not That In the '80s, 25 East 61st st. was home to B. Harris & Sons, jeweler to the stars! The Oldest Bars on the Upper East Side - East 86th St Association By the end of the relationship, I was living there. Melon I ate a lot of hamburgers there. And when she gave me the phone back, she went into [hysterics]. It was kind of a raffish crossroads. Did you come to see the show? They called it rocking early breaking, essentially. May 6, 2009. Cities . The city was different then. Arent the both of us up early, I said. I didnt want to fit in. It was a small scene, people like writer Stephen Saban, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel [Basquiat] and Kenny Scharf. And the rest of us were kinda like, Oh man, what? Cramped beer and shot joints with names like the Blue Moon, Czar Bar, and Richters were all vying for the attention of this influx of recently graduated young adults who wanted to go out, but had little money to do so. Team Infatuation August 19, 2022. That is something I have never done with anyone else. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. 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. There were very few artists there. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s - Alamedainfo Carina Finn July 6, 2022. It's now a Samsung store. Our first goal [as Sonic Youth] was getting a gig at CBGB. And Im not a corporate client, so please give me a break. It's just happening. 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. They were more McDermotts friends, because my friends were working in fashion and they were like, Oh, get a job, bitch! It was established, owned by and named after Elaine Kaufman, who was indelibly associated with the restaurant; Elaine's shut down several months after Kaufman died. The Penrose. And if I missed it, I felt really bad. If you remember Flemings, this event is for you: Saturday, December 4 Fleming's Reunion Party PM: We refused to take a job. 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. [1] A chance encounter with David Bowie at a downtown nightclub. I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku. He was like the Jimmy Fallon or Trevor Noah of that era. The early 80s were sort of the beginning of serious gentrification. When I really started hanging out in Manhattan, the primary place for my crew was Rock Steady Park [Happy Warrior Playground] on 98th and Amsterdam. 1567 2nd Ave, New York, NY No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988 to 1999 - Medium Everyone was very excited. Talk to the actors as they drifted in about your day, talk about whos auditioning for what. Guide. On NYC's Upper East Side, Ladies' Night Ruled the '90s - VinePair Alanna Heiss, founder of PS1 and the Clocktower Gallery. Next door to my apartment on East Eighth and Avenue C was the Green Oasis Community Garden, and I got involved with that. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. She had made a video of herself dancing to LL Cool J. I had no student loans and the housing was still affordable. When youre at a memorial mourning the passing of a friend or a lover and theyre really young, where do you put that stuff? It was all exposed wood and brick, and it had a tiny fireplace, a futon, my books, a sink and a stove. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. Thats where I first met [the late street-style photographer] Bill Cunningham, I think. I was hustling. Studio 54 was over after the owners, Steve [Rubell] and Ian [Schrager], got arrested in 1980, so we all migrated to the Mudd Club, on White Street. Theyd say, Yo, Dap, listen to that. All the hip-hop artists came [to the atelier]; there wasnt any other place that catered to rappers. Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. Sam [Samuel L. Jackson] and I bought a brownstone in Harlem around 1981. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. It was the three of us. This kind of activity is highly socially ordered: You dont barge in on other people, thats all part of it. (And Ski Bar even opened a Ski Bar 2 pop-up at Hunter Mountain during the winter. It was a very quiet audience. Jean-Michel Basquiat wandered in at some point a neighbor with whom we had a nodding acquaintance. I was also a regular at this neighborhood salon presided over by a Mr. Steve, who wore big, Coke-bottle thick glasses and was practically blind. 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). I was kind of tomboyish, but also pretty poor. I invited him to dinner. 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. A group of artists, friends and a few colleagues, including Marcia Tucker, the founder of the New Museum, demolished what remained of a former meatpacking company and converted it into JAMs new space. The gallerys not open so youll have to come back. Four days a week, I was studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute down on 15th Street. Now let me write mine. In October of that year, when I was back in New York, the Carters visited the city and Nan invited them to dine with us at Elaines [restaurant]. The elevated West Side Highway, meanwhile, was a place you could ski. I got my first loft in what was called Lower Manhattan before it was renamed the Triangle Below Canal, which was the realtors term that became TriBeCa, in 1967. Wendy Wild made magic mushroom punch. 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. Guerrilla art activities took place all over. 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. And then off wed go! We blacked out the skylights and windows and painted most of it gold very Warholian. The liquor laws werent as strict Ski Bar didnt have to have a kitchen nor serve any food and rent was cheap, both for bar space and the nearby apartments. If it was a Thursday, Id be rushing to get all my work done, because that was the night I went dancing. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. Usually Id take the bus down to Mickeys [Chinese Chance] at 1 University Place, where Julian Schnabel was the cook. 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. Our club-hop starts with the titular Limelight, Gatien's firstand still favoriteNew York club. The apartment was big, but the hall was in very bad repair, or at least looked it. And shoulder pads. This morning was no different than any other. But as soon as we walked in, nearly everyone stood and applauded. If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. 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. The 1980s era of Wall Street expense accounts had evaporated as young professionals, for the first time in a while, actually had to pay for their own drinks. An unpublished male nude Polaroid from 1981 by photographer Tom Bianchi. Hey, lets go get drunk at a bar.. He needed someone he trusted. And I just loved that experience. Ever since I moved out of my parents house in Astoria to live in the city, Ive always lived within the same two or three blocks of the Upper West Side. To me it was all an art project. Wheres Joe? Eventually youd realize that he died, and his family came and put his artwork in a dumpster. And thats why Block thinks youll never again see an era like the early 1990s on the Upper East Side. But it did make me very, very moody there were a lot of underground clubs, and they wouldnt jump off till 1 a.m. Whatever Happened to the Singles Bar? - PUNCH 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]. The point of ladies night is to get women into bars and get them drunk so that men can score.. Do you even think about what it was like in Brooklyn? I lived above a topless club at White and Church. People would drop change in your hands, turn their heads when you tried to kiss them. It was the tale of two cities back then, and I was in my late 20s, trying to get the message out, running the National Youth Movement out of an office in St. Marys Hospital in Bed-Stuy. He goes, What the hell are you doing to my theater? A lot of very creative, brilliant people were living in rough places downtown, which was dangerous but cheap, but I never did. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs.. Youd get into costume, put makeup on, make sure your props were in the right place, talk to the stage manager. By ajordahl123. I also had a tiny place on 12th Street between Greenwich and Washington the top back room of a falling-apart townhouse that the owner was renting out. Thats pretty good.. The idea of hip-hop hadnt really gelled. When he got sick, we were in a downward spiral for a year and a half. I figure its costing me two bucks to put a girl in my bar for two hours, Reynolds claimed at the time. Theyre exploiting women by using them to attract men, claimed its spokeswoman, Daveda Copeland. Those were developers terms. While her friend Sara explained, We dont even like this place. During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. In school, I never fit in at all. 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. I never wore gold jewelry I didnt want to be a target. There was a popular Puerto Rican dance club, Ochentas, and across the street from that was an Afro-Cuban spot, Club Broadway. For a while I lived on the Upper West Side, on the parlor floor of a brownstone on 71st Street between Amsterdam and Columbus. You couldnt get people to go to a club before midnight. Sometimes, after the clubs got out, people would see a kung fu flick on 42nd Street, which we called the Deuce Were going to the Deuce, whats up? 'The 1970s club scene in New York was special': Nicky Siano Upper East Side - New York - The Infatuation At night, if I was sitting around and wanted to amuse myself, Id walk down to Columbus and say hello. This was the scene at 2 a.m. on a Friday night in the spring of 1983 when my lover (as we called ourselves then), the film director Howard Brookner, and I threw the first of our preposterous Ladies Parties. We didnt pay rent, but it was meant to be $300 a month. Id walk to Cooper Union, where I was teaching. I was living with my aunt and one of my cousins in a shotgun apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Remembering the Lost Gay Bars of NYC - PAPER Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 He recognized me and stopped to congratulate me on the film. 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. There is no limit to it. They paid me like a tenth of what they paid me to do the acting, and it became my whole life. He was with his editor Erroll McDonald, a good friend of ours, but he refused to come into the room, remaining near the door with his back against the wall. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, a boy like me didnt know there was a place for him in the world like that. 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. I would go there every day to write. 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. 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 oppressively hot and always jam-packed Ski Bar was so crazy The New York Times compared its atmosphere to that of a beer commercial, and nightly there were sweaty singles dancing and drinking with unbridled enthusiasm. Best 30 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY with Reviews - Yellow Pages A WRITER SHARES 1980'S UWS MEMORIES, AND ASKS FOR YOURS - West Side Rag 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. Richard Gere was a fixture, as well as Diana Ross and Princess Caroline. We didnt bother to get any filming permits; the city was just coming out of its bankruptcy crisis, and I dont even know if the mayors film office was up and running. But I had no idea what I was photographing. We called the area TriBeCa, but we laughed about it the same way we laughed at DUMBO. Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. My contemporary, the writer Ed [Edmund] White, had the apartment next door. I tried to focus on my art. Thurston was a scholar. I didnt want anything to be more important than the writing. . 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.
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