She was the ultimate ballerina, and she became that on Fame. I was excited that I would be able to introduce this new band of gypsies to the Hollywood scene. Women would crowd around oil drums turned into tables and, while standing on sawdust floors, pound cheap beer and well liquor. 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! By the end of the relationship, I was living there. His show was on at 1 a.m., after Johnny Carson. He has one book but he doesnt have the next two. We just called it The Bar, which morphed into Ze Bar, like with a fake French accent. [1] 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. 380 Lafayette St, New York . I got my apartment through Stanley Strychacki, the founder of Club 57. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. I knew so many people in Harlem, I kept a second apartment in the Bronx, where I tried to be unseen. My fantasy was to rent one of these theaters on 42nd Street and show my movie alongside Mad Monkey Kung Fu. Best Upper East Side bars in NYC. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. So in April we held the Rites of Spring Fertility Bacchanal. The apartment was big, but the hall was in very bad repair, or at least looked it. If I were going out that night, Id go see Garren to fix my hair. Next door to my apartment on East Eighth and Avenue C was the Green Oasis Community Garden, and I got involved with that. There were problems, of course; you serve young men and women as much alcohol as they can humanly consume and theres bound to be. My favorite was the Mine Shaft, a very performative kind of sex bar on Little West 12th Street that had a kind of punk, anti-disco vibe. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. Across the street from my apartment was the McBurney Y.M.C.A., so that was my gym, and halfway down the block was something called the Squat Theatre, home to an avant-garde Hungarian troupe, and kind of a drug spot. After shows at La MaMa, we would go to the gay bar on East Fourth Street and Second Ave. The venues didn't matter to me. There was . Where To Drink On The Upper East Side . The Landmarks That Made New York a Cultural Capital, Uptown or Downtown? 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. All of the cabbies would line up there to get eggs and bacon late at night. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. 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 didnt know anything. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. Wendy Wild made magic mushroom punch. In the lot there are three vehicles. I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. It needs to be said that, technically, ladies nights were illegal in New York and had been so for quite a time. And Bowie had no idea that was my background. Gracie Terrace, New York, NY (212) 535-3140 (212) 535-3140. Bronwyn Thomas, she was like happy feet on her toes. Within a few days, he came to my apartment, which is how I wound up doing the arrangements for Lets Dance.. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. There is a two drink minimum. 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. 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). He wasnt exactly made of money, though he fished through a bucket of change every morning to buy his one meal of the day, a bagel but Block claims this was a time when it didnt cost a ton to open and run a bar in Manhattan. You wanted to be there when it was happening, and then youd migrate at around 2:30 to an after-hours club. It must have been late spring of 1981. 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. 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. The. People thought I was a little crazy. I couldnt work in color because I couldnt afford to make color prints. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. There was a popular Puerto Rican dance club, Ochentas, and across the street from that was an Afro-Cuban spot, Club Broadway. Youd think he would have been the most outrageous-looking person there, but he looked like a businessman. In those days, there wasnt any downtown, so life was much easier. It was a total nexus. 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. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. Arent the both of us up early, I said. Landis shot the models one afternoon on the Upper East Side. 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. Brandy's Piano Bar 68 Bars & Clubs Gay Bars Upper East Side Open now Elsewhere, so he was going back and forth between doing the TV show and the play. 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! Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. You could work, then not work for a while, get by. It was raw: It had been a paper storage facility. 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. I was living uptown really the classic uptown, which, because I was young, seemed a little wild to some people with my kids and my mother (also, at that time I was in love with a Brazilian man Id met in Bali). Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. 2. How you doin this morning?, He was young, dressed in jeans, and clearly shocked. I could feel the presence of someone in the room. Not only did Mr. Brown come on with me, but Muhammad Ali did, too. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. A walk across the Williamsburg Bridge just to save a subway token. I started going to local clubs in Brooklyn at about 14 years old. Then we had Woody Allen. They called it rocking early breaking, essentially. I had to be at the theater by 7 oclock so I could start my process and get ready before half-hour call. Then our leading lady, Susan Berman, broke her leg, and we had to wait for her to get out of the cast. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 There are a lot of places to eat eggs and pancakes in the middle of the day on the Upper East Side. It made the general public aware that people were dying in Brooklyn, in Harlem, in the Bronx. I committed the tapes to memory; I would do them over and over. I was worried about how the crowd there would receive the Carters. They were all drunk and wasted and they were happy. Ski Bar would issue custom-made lift tickets good for eight drinks apiece. Bars would battle to get people in the doors., Then a bar on First Avenue, Far Out Lounge, came up with a gimmick that would change everything, with the ultimate idea to draw in the skirts that bring in the suits.. Peter cant keep going that way, not in the city that its becoming now. People like Jean-Michel [Basquiat] would come in, who was somebody you knew from Tier 3 and the Mudd Club; someone your age. 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. Certainly at night, few people were there, and few were there on the weekends. Wed go: Look, even if you dont know how to strip wood, were gonna show you: This gooey mess that you have to brush on the wood, wait till it bubbles, then you scrape it off. Most mornings, we would wake up and check the answering machine. And, of course, so did the men. A crack den lined with books. The city was different then. The old downtown art scene was floundering, while some people, like Robert Mapplethorpe, had risen. 26 places sorted by traveler favorites Clear all filters 1. 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. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. I didnt want anything to be more important than the writing. When Canadian-born club impresario Peter Gatien came to New York City in the early '80s, after. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. James Brown and the Rev. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. It was a very different kind of neighborhood from the one I grew up in in Harlem just starting to be gentrified. Or his family didnt come, and the landlord put his work in a dumpster. It was the three of us. 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. Jimmy Carters reputation was tarnished by the hostage crisis in Iran, and I feared that perhaps Norman Mailer, an Elaines regular, or some very politically active and argumentative individual, might stop by our table to express some unfavorable comments. In 1972, the New York State Human Rights Commission ruled that reduced-priced ladies days at Yankee Stadium discriminated against men. Not surprisingly, it worked. It's now a Samsung store. 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. In the early 80s, I had a great loft in the meatpacking district, which at that point was full of meat hanging on hooks and blood running in the streets. You werent afraid of getting it, you were wondering when are the symptoms going to show up. Many of these bars tried to offer a sort of bridge from cheap college boozing to costly, real-world imbibing. 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. Taylor Mead had a running tab at multiple bars. Or with only a few comments in between. So wed be starving. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . When he got sick, we were in a downward spiral for a year and a half. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs.. 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. The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. It was just shattering, but of course I had to pretend that this was the surprise that I had brought my board to see. I never had to show the clothes I was making to a buyer, because they always saw it in the clubs first: at Danceteria, at Roxy, at Kool Lady Blues Friday-night party. It wasnt a big deal. Did you come to see the show? Carver came by, down from Syracuse on some publishing business. Money was secondary to being able to have this playground we could create. Thurston was a scholar. I was still riding a little bit high off of the Diana Ross album Diana, which had come out in 1980. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. My contemporary, the writer Ed [Edmund] White, had the apartment next door. Like Geronimos Bamba Bay Cafe (a.k.a. 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. Their approach was direct and curt, no frills not self-consciously art-directed no frills, but Old Country, 19th-century no frills. But truthfully, I hated it. It became a whole sh*t show, recalls Keith Block. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. In 1980, I was working as a staff photographer for the New York Post. 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. 1982 Having introduced nouvelle cuisine at Ma Maison in Los Angeles, Chef Wolfgang Puck presents "California cuisine" to patrons of his new chic-casual Sunset Strip restaurant, Spago. 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. They had gotten the idea that it was a very good headquarters. I did not know what my passions or imagination would lead to. Rival crews had been dancing in the subway, and it turned into a fight over who had won. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. 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. I realized I had to leave. 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. [The clothes] were really like one-plus-one, big squares with holes, basically. Fleming's was a fun Irish bar on the upper east side in the 1980s & 1990s, up until it closed in 1994. We recorded at a studio called Greene Street Recording Studio on Greene Street between Houston and Prince. I would go to school, come home, clean the house, babysit my second and third cousins, hang out on the stoop, wait for my aunt to come home, have dinner with her and wait until she fell asleep then I broke out. 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. It was sort of 11 to 7. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. 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. 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. Upper East Side. I had just moved the gallery to Franklin Street in TriBeCa from West 57th Street. Lines around the block. 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. The Roxy was on Fridays, when the party was Wheels of Steel, which initially started at Negril in the East Village. AIDS was a very strange situation; starting in 82 you knew very little about it, and then a few years later you suddenly realized it was the largest killer among your personal friends. Id get to the gallery late afternoon. Lobster Newburg as it looks today. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. I didnt know what I was doing. We liked to get there early, which the club promoters loved because wed get the party started. The area was really no-mans land. Despite the lack of a cabaret license, DJ Mike would spin soon-to-be-classics of the moment like Salt-N-Pepas Lets Talk About Sex and Color Me Badds I Wanna Sex You Up, while everyone danced. Then you would call at 10, or 10 after, to check in with your agent to see if there was anything going that day. 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. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. Mornings spent alone, writing in a studio in the West Village. 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. The point of ladies night is to get women into bars and get them drunk so that men can score.. The apartment, at 1060 Fifth Avenue, at 87th Street, was like a fantasy apartment huge, with a view of the reservoir. It made me immobile. Can you come back later? Our club-hop starts with the titular Limelight, Gatien's firstand still favoriteNew York club. People would drop change in your hands, turn their heads when you tried to kiss them. Thankfully, most seemed to only be of the public urination and inconsiderate noise variety, angering wealthy locals. Tuesday Trivia. Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over. The conversation was very interesting. Photograph courtesy of Charlie Ahearn, whose groundbreaking hip-hop feature film Wild Style (1983) featured Grandmaster Flash, Lee Quiones and Fab 5 Freddy, among others. 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 go with Andy Warhol, or to dinner and then to Studio 54 afterwards. 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.
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