), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. 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. . Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. If you wanted fancy, youd go to La Grenouille. Meanwhile, 25 new bars had opened between 76th and 96th Streets in the first years of the 1990s as well. And then he asked me again: Dap, whats she doing? 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. Come be a part of it. The doors would open and things would get going by 10, and by midnight it would be raging. Id get to the gallery late afternoon. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. But something wasnt right. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. We made an altar to a llama, and everyone dressed in kind of Greco-Roman outfits I wore a toga with sequins. You could order a pizza anytime. I would get back home [from school] at a decent hour, four in the afternoon. This kind of activity is highly socially ordered: You dont barge in on other people, thats all part of it. In 1980, I was working as a staff photographer for the New York Post. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. My first loss was my partner, around the time Grace Kelly died in 1982. Afterward, wed go to a club. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. There's always a striking contrast to what it was and what it is now. 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. Mozart. I knew people who were dying as early as 79, and three months later their partners were dead, so by 1981 I had a clear picture, even if it hadnt fully sunk in, and it was an incredible life changer. Within a few days, he came to my apartment, which is how I wound up doing the arrangements for Lets Dance.. The Upper West Side has always been a great place to buy food, with terrific places for fish and vegetables. 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 lived above a topless club at White and Church. Then our leading lady, Susan Berman, broke her leg, and we had to wait for her to get out of the cast. One of many iconic Upper East Side eateries owned by the Santo Family Group . There was a place called Columbus, on Columbus Avenue and 69th Street. I said, To hell with it! Jasmine Guy auditioned; she wasnt of age yet. 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. 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. 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. Carnegie Deli Carnegie Deli. 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. 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. Two weeks later we were begging to let people come watch us rehearse. I would often wake up in the middle of the night as the city slept. A lot of it was crack. But it did make me very, very moody there were a lot of underground clubs, and they wouldnt jump off till 1 a.m. David McDermott and Peter McGough, artists. How you doin this morning?, He was young, dressed in jeans, and clearly shocked. My contemporary, the writer Ed [Edmund] White, had the apartment next door. I remember the smell of the theaters so well popcorn and weed. It needs to be said that, technically, ladies nights were illegal in New York and had been so for quite a time. And the city wasnt so much about money. Spankys, a sports bar on 75th Street, attracted the young Republican crowd that had begun to invade the area. 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. In the summer of 1981 I was living with Gary Fisketjon, my best friend from college and my future editor at Random House. James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. Then it was getting a good time slot at CBGB, so you werent on last and werent on first. As told to Kate Guadagnino,Elizabeth Gumport,Merrell Hambleton and Erin Sheehy. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. Id make sure everything was in place and see what the new orders were. And, of course, so did the men. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. Have a good day. His hands were in his pockets now. During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. 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. This morning was no different than any other. When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. Everyone I knew hated Reagan and couldnt wait for him to get out of office. Guerrilla art activities took place all over. It was [at the Pyramid Club] just one night, October of 1982, before the floodgates opened. State records are incomplete. We would sit at this coffee table and listen to records for an hour. I was straight-edge, so if I snuck out, I was all right, because I wasnt hungover the next day like the other kids. His name opened every door for me. It was before he was onstage and all that; he was just starting out. Four days a week, I was studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute down on 15th Street. When Canadian-born club impresario Peter Gatien came to New York City in the early '80s, after. 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. NR is a cocktail bar on the Upper East Side that serves inventive drinks and solid ramen. Sam was doing Ragtime, and then he did A Soldiers Play on Broadway. I held auditions for Fame, the TV show, on a Sunday at the New York School of Ballet because thats where I trained, and Mr. Thomas [ballet dancer Richard Scott Thomas] was happy to give me a studio. [Kim] would work one day, and Id work the next. 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. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. 1. I was doing A Soldiers Play with the Negro Ensemble Company, working with Denzel [Washington], Adolph Caesar, Larry Riley, James Pickens, Brent Jennings, Cotter Smith. And I just loved that experience. You wanted to be there when it was happening, and then youd migrate at around 2:30 to an after-hours club. The whole reason I was able to raise money for my causes was because of him. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. I really had no business buying my loft on West Broadway in those years. Everything was different for me. 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. Peter cant keep going that way, not in the city that its becoming now. Wed spend hours getting our outfits together buying stuff at Canal Plastics Center, stapling photo booth pictures onto our jackets. (I might be the only person who never lived in a scary New York apartment. 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? Their approach was direct and curt, no frills not self-consciously art-directed no frills, but Old Country, 19th-century no frills. Gay and straight people would party together. My parents were heroin addicts, beatniks. But I didnt feel super cool or anything. Before that it had been pot. 1 place sorted by traveler favorites. I worked part-time for gallerist Annina Nosei. We used to have a TV with a VCR on at all times, playing MTV and the guys coming up. 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. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. It was all happening at the same time; there was a lot of yin and yang. It was still a sort of wild west that far uptown, and the facility was quickly dubbed Dormandie Court for the raucous, college-like atmosphere it had created and then fostered. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. Lines around the block. 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. draw in the skirts that bring in the suits. Load more. 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. Thats why I started wearing silver hoop earrings. He was the voice of every commercial on the radio or television at that time, and the richest among us. I would drink quite a lot of wine. She and Larry Gagosian had this space, it was a condo loft in a building on West Broadway. Its basically the most conscious, relatable record. That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. Once I saw someone selling a broken light bulb. Kyle: It has a window with LED lights around it, and a tourist was in the window and seemed to be making a humping motion. Somebody might have called during the night to say they might have job opportunities, so you always checked your machine. It was a total nexus. 1567 2nd Ave, New York, NY Back then no one came in and said, Let me see your bar menu, says Block. All of the cabbies would line up there to get eggs and bacon late at night. It was a walk-up. But those deals enticed 22-year-olds to get out of their apartments. $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 like, Oh cool, youre doing art too? Bands would put up fliers all over SoHo; there were wheat-paste fliers everywhere. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. I had glasses, so I put these flip-up sunglass visors on them. I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. 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.. Maxi Cohen, Area, 1985, Ladies Rooms Around The World, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio and Chambers Fine Art. 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. Foursquare. The conversation was very interesting. It is demeaning to women to be treated this way, claimed Long Island man Richard Savino in 1984. I went over and started chatting with him, and we became completely engrossed in this conversation about jazz. I started spending a third of my time there. Thurston Moore would take me to see hardcore groups like Black Flag. He has one book but he doesnt have the next two. 2. I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. Sometimes wed have lunch. 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. We were outside the Mine Shaft [a raunchy 1970s/'80s gay sex club on Washington Street]. Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. It was at Avenue A and St. Marks Place, but the windows looked out on an air shaft, not the park. The Mudd Club was one of my favorite spots to go out thats where I was introduced to James Chance and the Contortions and Talking Heads. Peter was so self-possessed and dignified, I never, ever thought of him as poor, even though he had no money. 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. It was the only Xerox machine below 14th Street, so every artist used it. 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! 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. The whole thing finally fell into place in May of that year when I went on Tom Snyders show on NBC. Blocks bar was ski-themed, natch, with a Ski-Doo hanging from the ceiling, bartenders wearing neon-colored ski pants in the winter and bathrooms labeled Unload Here (mens) and Grooming in Process (womens). Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. In a letter about her trip, she wrote, When pages needed to be retyped, Jimmy did the retyping. The rain came through, so the clothes were all messed up by brown streaks. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. Together, this chorus of voices assembled, edited and condensed creates a compelling mosaic, revealing a city bustling with creativity but also slowly emerging from its recent near-bankruptcy, with upscale restaurants just blocks away from rubble-filled, graffiti-painted lots. When our gallery, Gracie Mansion, started, both Gracie and I had other jobs, so we would switch off. Reagan really ruined it for me. One day, I was walking uptown to an appointment just before noon, and coming toward me was Robert Duvall. Bronwyn Thomas, she was like happy feet on her toes. 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 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. I met Peter Hujar through Susan Sontag. 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. See menus, reviews, ratings and delivery info for the best dining and most popular restaurants in East 80s. We recorded at a studio called Greene Street Recording Studio on Greene Street between Houston and Prince. 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. 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. 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. I remember thinking, How long can this go on? There were very few places to work out back then. Everything had my initials on it, or the name of somebody else on it; it was really crazy. 380 Lafayette St, New York . Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. I didnt know what I was doing. I was at the same place I am now, 222 Bowery. Ann Magnuson performing at Kenny Scharfs opening atop his Ultima Suprema Deluxa Cadillac on November 14, 1983. The first club I did with Shawn Hausman, The Club With No Name, was on 25th Street. Courtesy of John Kelly, photograph by John Dugdale, John Kelly, performance and visual artist. 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. It was kind of a raffish crossroads. We were both rather exotic in each others eyes. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. Everyone associates me with Jesse Jackson, but actually James Brown is the person I consider most like a mentor. But at midnight, yes, I was often out. Clear all filters. Belgian, Crepes, Wine Bar, Coffee Shop Menu Available. A chance encounter with David Bowie at a downtown nightclub. And shoulder pads. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. 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.. And I got in trouble because I didnt get home until like 1 or 2 in the morning. Boozy, drug-fueled parties that lasted until dawn. It was like a village, yknow? I just wanted to be in New York. I had no reason to stay awake or to fall asleep. He would maybe drink half a glass of wine. When me and Run would go to each others houses and rap together, we would go into the attic. 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. 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. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. Her upstairs neighbor was artist Dan Graham, who I knew through the artist-poet Vito Acconci. At one end of my block was J.G. 2. Sometimes you would cry, but most of the time you were just stunned, like it wasnt real. And we had Tina Chow, who had such unearthly beauty she would come into a room and just drift. The venues didn't matter to me. It made me immobile. One time a girl a teenager, maybe 15, 16 came in with her dad. I never wore gold jewelry I didnt want to be a target. So I call LL up and I let her speak to him for a few minutes. 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. Id go with Andy Warhol, or to dinner and then to Studio 54 afterwards. What if they just let all women drink for free? We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. We had a bar and some makeshift situation where people would collect the door charge, $5 or $10 maybe. That is something I have never done with anyone else. That completely opened my mind. The title was an intentional lure the work wasnt about Grace Kelly, but the painter William Schwedler. We did a deep dive into the most avant-garde, atonal jazz. 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. We always had coke, and many guests brought their own. The old downtown art scene was floundering, while some people, like Robert Mapplethorpe, had risen. A few blocks away was the Ninth Street Bakery. 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]. And Im not a corporate client, so please give me a break. I said, Im very happy for you, youre selling a lot of tickets. Thats what happened at Club 57 a lot: We told people, This is the theme. 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. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. It was all very small town-y. We never served any food, but we always had a couple cases of beer and a basic bar. He was very aware I was using a lot of paper that wasnt being accounted for, so we came to an agreement that I had to pay. And then eventually some surface decoration with tucks and treatment Id take the fabric and just sew in any direction. He needed someone he trusted. I made a deal for him to do a cheapo job by trading a Brice Marden plus $10,000. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. The city was different then. I would get some bus money, some pizza money, some soda money and some money to be able to get into a jam. Bodega 88 Night Clubs Bars Brew Pubs (19) 8.6 Website (212) 799-1602 573 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024 CLOSED NOW 2. I went from area to area of the performance space, onstage and offstage. I could feel the presence of someone in the room. Normandie Court, a complex of four 34-story beige towers occupying the entire block bounded by East 95th and 96th Streets and Second and Third Avenues, opened around then, offering dirt cheap rent. Pierre Francillon and Richard Alvarez, both artists and friends of fashion designer Andre Walker, in 1983 at the Middle Collegiate Church, where Walker held a fashion show. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth performing at CBGB in 1983. People would drop change in your hands, turn their heads when you tried to kiss them. Cities . I got up at anywhere from 3 to 5 in the morning and worked as long as I could. That was Sucker M.C.s., I was still living at home. By 1981, I was no longer the manager at [the East Village performance space] Club 57, but I still helped out and performed there a lot. Every parent, every grown-up was your mother and father. Home; . The people who were chic, the downtowners, pretty much just wore black that could instantly give you a look. Ski Bar turned into a Taco Bell and Block moved to Telluride, Colo., where he and Singer opened a similar bar, Poachers Pub. Are you going to this? It was make coffee, check in and then get busy stripping wood. 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. Nobody was talking to him, probably because they didnt recognize him. 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. It was almost a surreal experience, because I had the feeling that this person is only vaguely here. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. To me, the 1980s were incredibly liberating. So wed be starving. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I was 19. I didnt want to fit in. If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. Theyre exploiting women by using them to attract men, claimed its spokeswoman, Daveda Copeland. (212) 861-2290. There were all these conspiracy theories. Then later, it became about getting a gig at Danceteria, Mudd Club they were all little milestone achievements. By ajordahl123.
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