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Courtesy of John Kelly, photograph by John Dugdale, John Kelly, performance and visual artist. You could say I was not a considerate neighbor. 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. 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. Could you just call LL so she could just say hi? Everybody knew I knew all the rappers and everything. If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. . Hear Eric Goode remember when he found out about AIDS: I enrolled at the Parsons School of Design in 1982. 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. Then our leading lady, Susan Berman, broke her leg, and we had to wait for her to get out of the cast. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. The landlord turned off the plumbing, so wed defecate into garbage bags and throw them out the window. The whole thing finally fell into place in May of that year when I went on Tom Snyders show on NBC. On NYCs Upper East Side, Ladies Night Ruled the 90s Until It Didnt | VinePair, https://vinepair.com/articles/ladies-night-wars-nyc/, wbs_cat Spirit, ladies\' night, laws, manhattan, women, Domaine Champalou Vouvray 2019, Loire Valley, France | VinePair, https://vinepair.com/good-wine-reviews/domaine-champalou-vouvray-2019-loire-valley-france/, wbs_cat Wine, wbs_type Vouvray, wbs_brand Domaine Champalou, chenin blanc, good wine, Vouvray. There were still hookers, male and female, on the street, and vendors selling potted plants and gigantic stuffed animals under the rubble of the West Side Highway at all hours of the night. There was likewise Brother Jimmys, a Southern BBQ joint that served overproof punch out of rubber garbage pails. 1 place sorted by traveler favorites. I tried to focus on my art. 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. (What a loft was, I wasnt entirely sure.) Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. There were others: the Venus, and down in the 14th Street area, the Variety Photoplays, a Spanish one called The Jefferson, The Metropol [Metropolitan]. Even though every single record Id put out up until then was gold, platinum or multiple platinum, Diana was the first time Id ever worked with a big star. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over. Then later, it became about getting a gig at Danceteria, Mudd Club they were all little milestone achievements. 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. There is a two drink minimum. Wed spend hours getting our outfits together buying stuff at Canal Plastics Center, stapling photo booth pictures onto our jackets. In 1981, I suggested a bacchanal a night of pagan merriment as spring was coming. It was very close to the Forward Building, which housed the important Yiddish newspaper. 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. 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! I didnt want anything to be more important than the writing. We said we were artists, and artists make art. Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. You would go up to the club and then you would look for a friend, like, Wheres so-and-so? Oh, he got the thing; he got the sickness. It would just ruin your night. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. After three, four months there, we decided to turn our loft into a nightclub. But I did it anyway. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (far right) in Spell #7, 1979. We had a prom, a debutante ball, a ladies wrestling night. 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 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. I didnt smoke or drink, and when you dont do those things, you need an outlet. 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. To me it was all an art project. If you wanted fancy, youd go to La Grenouille. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. 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). 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. I remember the smell of the theaters so well popcorn and weed. Landis shot the models one afternoon on the Upper East Side. While her friend Sara explained, We dont even like this place. It changed everything. I would go to these obscure classes around the city that were mostly for dancers. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. It wasnt actually the best place to hear or see bands, but it was always exciting. 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. She and Larry Gagosian had this space, it was a condo loft in a building on West Broadway. By the time midnight came around and I knew my parents were sleeping, I would sneak out the window down onto the porch. 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. Once I saw someone selling a broken light bulb. The artist David McDermott shot by his then-partner, the artist Peter McGough, East Village, 1983. Bemelman's Bar at The Carlyle 128 Bars & Clubs Upper East Side Open now By M3088GQmarie Yes, the service is excellent, the atmosphere is lovely old fashioned, the music is good and the drinks are superb. 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. But some places were so beloved theyre still talked about fondly today. Some of the best bars on the Upper East Side cultivate the feeling of "Old New York.". The city was different then. We never served any food, but we always had a couple cases of beer and a basic bar. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. Write a Review! I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. The pictures on the wall were all from the Fifties, and a group of us girls would go and get our hair done in crazy bouffants. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. The people who were chic, the downtowners, pretty much just wore black that could instantly give you a look. There was a great camaraderie. But as soon as we walked in, nearly everyone stood and applauded. Police barricades up and down Second Avenue. He needed someone he trusted. It became a whole sh*t show, recalls Keith Block. Howard was Lili LaLeen, a German film actress in a vintage Mary McFadden. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. Where To Drink On The Upper East Side . That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. Taylor Mead had a running tab at multiple bars. I met Kim [Gordon] through a mutual friend. It was a total nexus. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. 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. Everyone I knew hated Reagan and couldnt wait for him to get out of office. Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. Sam was doing Ragtime, and then he did A Soldiers Play on Broadway. And Im not a corporate client, so please give me a break. Michael Gira, the frontman of the band Swans, was on the [first] cover. There were very few artists there. They would shy away with confused expressions, whispering to their friends. One of my responses was to just keep working. draw in the skirts that bring in the suits. Like Clubhouse on York Avenue, which intentionally offered a frat house-like atmosphere. Then you would call at 10, or 10 after, to check in with your agent to see if there was anything going that day. I would drink quite a lot of wine. 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. 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. It was a small scene, people like writer Stephen Saban, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel [Basquiat] and Kenny Scharf. There were no movie theaters, bookstores, galleries or photocopy shops, so my entrepreneurial idea, which failed, was to open one, Chelsea Copy. A lot of it was crack. I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. It was totally improvised, like a live prayer: Do you know that people are dying?, What Happened in New York Between 1981 and 1983, The Artists Who Brought Asian-Americans Into the Annals of Contemporary Art, 5 New York Times Writers on What They Got Right and Wrong in the Early 80s, What New York Was Like in the Early 80s Hour by Hour, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/t-magazine/24-hours-new-york-city-1980s-life.html. Certainly at night, few people were there, and few were there on the weekends. My dormitory was at the corner of East 14th Street and Union Square. Hey, lets go get drunk at a bar.. I lived on the quiet end of Hollis, Queens. We were very, very thin. One (Instagram) showing somebody stumbling out of your bar and youre out of business, he believes. That was Sucker M.C.s., I was still living at home. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. They put their names all over the mens room! The theater had been trashed. All of the cabbies would line up there to get eggs and bacon late at night. Rival crews had been dancing in the subway, and it turned into a fight over who had won. It was an incredible contrast from the last time I had lived in New York, when I was 17, during the summer of 1981, in a $500-a-month sublet loft that my boyfriend and I had found paging through our bible, the call to another life The Village Voice in his basement in Evanston. 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. There was a lot of crossover, because ours would go to 6 or 7 in the morning some god-awful time. (By the time we filmed Desperately Seeking Susan in 84, New York was already beginning to become more gentrified.) One place I went to a lot was the St. Marks Baths. Many of these bars tried to offer a sort of bridge from cheap college boozing to costly, real-world imbibing. My habit must have appeared bizarre to my peers. 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. In the lot there are three vehicles. Galleries and museums didnt exhibit their work at that time. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. A chance encounter with David Bowie at a downtown nightclub. I said, Im very happy for you, youre selling a lot of tickets. Have a good day. His hands were in his pockets now. 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]. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. It was nothing but rejection. But where was the battlefield? Then it got to be a habit. In the mornings, Id walk along 125th Street to the store, which I opened in 82. Her father said, Dap, my daughter, shes driving me crazy. They were spinning on their heads, the cops said. I would go there every day to write. All the music [in the atelier on 125th Street] came from the VCR. Points of interest include Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, Hunter College, Gracie Mansion and Carl Schurz Park. Elsewhere, so he was going back and forth between doing the TV show and the play. I could feel the presence of someone in the room. It was a brilliantly sunny day, and standing outside was Dustin Hoffman. At one end of my block was J.G. I was in my early 30s, and I had Tatiana and Alex, my children, so I didnt stay out until dawn like I had in the 1970s. I had just moved the gallery to Franklin Street in TriBeCa from West 57th Street. By ajordahl123. It seems we could start later than this. The Upper West Side has always been a great place to buy food, with terrific places for fish and vegetables. We always had coke, and many guests brought their own. When Flashdance came out in 1983, Paramount put me up in the Carlyle Hotel to do promotion. It was on 35th and Fifth, and it was a place where the sushi came around on a conveyor belt. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. 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. I got up at anywhere from 3 to 5 in the morning and worked as long as I could. They had done mostly commercial work, and I had to explain to them that this is different than their commercial stuff to take a different kind of care. Photo by James & Karla Murray from their book NEW YORK NIGHTS After its appearance in Woody Allen's 1984 film, Broadway Danny Rose , Carnegie Deli became a classic. And why I got out.. Everyone was very excited. 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. What if they just let all women drink for free? It was a real neighborhood place, with people dropping in and hanging out, and a sort of day care center for neighbors who wanted us to watch their kids. I lived above a topless club at White and Church. 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). 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . And by 1991 a good dozen of the neighborhoods bars were offering similar ladies night deals. Every night was a huge passeggiata with people perusing the blankets. It was really like a combination of living theater and installation art, very communal. Upstairs, the formally attired crowd (jackets required, gentlemen) dines on classic fare including the 21 Caesar Salad, Creamy Chicken Hash, and the ever-popular 21 Burger, which has been on the . May 6, 2009. Like Geronimos Bamba Bay Cafe (a.k.a. In school, I never fit in at all. Alanna Heiss, founder of PS1 and the Clocktower Gallery. The Penrosenamed for a neighborhood in Cork, Ireland, where two of the owners grew upbrings a bit of the indie-chic East Village to Gossip . Sorry.. There were all these conspiracy theories.

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