. One of my responses was to just keep working. I knew so many people in Harlem, I kept a second apartment in the Bronx, where I tried to be unseen. They paid me like a tenth of what they paid me to do the acting, and it became my whole life. Then, I didnt have the kind of formal board that one would today. [The clothes] were really like one-plus-one, big squares with holes, basically. Id dance until about two in the morning and then Id go back to work. It cut down a great number of the people who were out there doing it, but at the same time, the ones who were left were much more intense about it. Shan among its residents. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. The night was such a hoot we tried to reprise it a few times, but the tenor slid from hilarity to melodrama, and, like so many ecstasies of the era, soon just crumbled and fell apart. Its basically the most conscious, relatable record. 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. I had a horrible graveyard shift at a coffee shop, one of the only places to eat in Chelsea, open 24 hours super crickets, deserted. [Kim] would work one day, and Id work the next. 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]. 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. Best Upper East Side bars in NYC. We were such fashion victims. Wendy Wild made magic mushroom punch. Like Outback, an Australian-themed bar on 93rd and Third Avenue, which hosted Men Are Pigs nights three times a week. That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. And the hair. Everything was different for me. I had no reason to stay awake or to fall asleep. 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. Wheres Joe? Eventually youd realize that he died, and his family came and put his artwork in a dumpster. His show was on at 1 a.m., after Johnny Carson. My sense of time was completely distorted. 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. 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. Carver came by, down from Syracuse on some publishing business. The conversation was very interesting. Money was secondary to being able to have this playground we could create. I worked part-time for gallerist Annina Nosei. 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. There was a great camaraderie. The. CBGB was just up the street, and I performed there with my band or as a solo poet many times. The bakery, located in the front and open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., is great for an excellent croissant and coffee break. The other was he wouldnt say anything, just [shrug] that meant it was a failure. Everyone I knew hated Reagan and couldnt wait for him to get out of office. Did you come to see the show? Everyone was very excited. I saw Jody Watley on television, and I was like, They dont steal silver, Im going to wear those!. It was a small scene, people like writer Stephen Saban, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel [Basquiat] and Kenny Scharf. 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. Nan Goldin was a block up, and William Burroughs lived downstairs. I unlocked the door. 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. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 Id make sure everything was in place and see what the new orders were. The old downtown art scene was floundering, while some people, like Robert Mapplethorpe, had risen. Afterward, wed go to a club. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Bar owners argued that they should be able to capitalize on the marketplace however they could and that only the State Liquor Authority could outlaw such ladies night deals. 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. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. Al Sharpton (right) backstage at Madison Square Garden on June 11, 1974. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. Sometimes wed have lunch. Bars & Music Mama's Bar. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. Youd see people that you hadnt seen in months in the street with KS [Kaposis sarcoma] lesions; people would just disappear. I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. 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. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. Write a Review! In 80, I got a job at Todds Copy on Mott Street. Queens: PS1, the site of the era-defining exhibit New York/New Wave (1981); Queensbridge Houses, public housing that counted Juice Crew founder Marley Marl and rapper members Roxanne Shant and M.C. There was a studio near First Avenue in the 50s that used a dance technique that was a modified version of Pilates. 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 was living with my parents in the Alfred E. Smith projects on the Lower East Sides waterfront. . People thought I was a little crazy. Sometimes it was just me and my sister walking up to the velvet rope or the bouncers, or it would be a group of us, and they would let us right in. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. Plodding. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. It was pitch-dark. 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. In the '80s, 25 East 61st st. was home to B. Harris & Sons, jeweler to the stars! I returned to New York in 81 after 10 years as an expat. The Roxy was on Fridays, when the party was Wheels of Steel, which initially started at Negril in the East Village. 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. All of the cabbies would line up there to get eggs and bacon late at night. Many of its bartenders have gone on to open their own places. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. Then we had Woody Allen. I was hustling. The gallery space was on the first floor; our offices were in the basement. Indeed, many of his customers would come from Normandie Court a block away. 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. This kind of activity is highly socially ordered: You dont barge in on other people, thats all part of it. ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. No one says they have to leave a tip. I started going to local clubs in Brooklyn at about 14 years old. We became sort of like brothers. Many of these bars tried to offer a sort of bridge from cheap college boozing to costly, real-world imbibing. I never saw that before and hed never experienced that. And if I missed it, I felt really bad. 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. Cities . Guide. 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. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. The apartment was big, but the hall was in very bad repair, or at least looked it. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. And yet, plenty of ladies were also against them. I didnt know what I was doing. Women would crowd around oil drums turned into tables and, while standing on sawdust floors, pound cheap beer and well liquor. 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). 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. One night, one horrible July Fourth, I invited the board members up to the roof, and I discovered 40 or 50 people at a party that I think Kenny had organized. Hey, I said. We were then escorted to a quiet table in the rear by the smiling proprietress herself, Ms. Elaine Kaufman, and joined by her good friend, the gregarious publicist Bobby Zarem, a city slicker born in Savannah, Georgia, who told Mr. Carter: Your brother Billy once called me a Yankee because Savannah is north of Plains. Norman Mailer wasnt there that night. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. Home; . During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. 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. 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. 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. It was crazy. But, pre-AIDS anyway, it was also more diverse. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. 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. If you remember Flemings, this event is for you: Saturday, December 4 Fleming's Reunion Party 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. James Brown and the Rev. Wed eat. Meanwhile, 25 new bars had opened between 76th and 96th Streets in the first years of the 1990s as well. I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. Alanna Heiss, founder of PS1 and the Clocktower Gallery. 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. I didnt have the scratch to make it livable, but I met this guy named Peter Marino [the architect and designer] in the elevator who was doing a high-end renovation on the top floor and negotiated with him. I doubt if many artists experienced it that way. And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word. 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. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. 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. 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. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. 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. I served eggplant parmigiana and a stupendous chocolate cake that everyone always wanted. We would go till 4 a.m. Hell, we would go past 4 a.m. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. 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. 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. 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). Not only did Mr. Brown come on with me, but Muhammad Ali did, too. 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. 1. This was every Friday. By ajordahl123. Sometimes you would cry, but most of the time you were just stunned, like it wasnt real. It was a walk-up. My apartment was four stories up, and I got a place on the floor below for Kim Gordon. 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. 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. We used to have a TV with a VCR on at all times, playing MTV and the guys coming up. No ID check, nothing. It was kind of a raffish crossroads. This was a moment in Manhattan history that had never really been seen before and hasnt been seen since. Tuesday Trivia. 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. Pretty girls in pajamas peeked in on my occupied space. He would maybe drink half a glass of wine. He goes, What the hell are you doing to my theater? Friday's location on the Upper East Side. 26 places sorted by traveler favorites Clear all filters 1. So in April we held the Rites of Spring Fertility Bacchanal. 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY About Search Results Sort: Default All BBB Rated A+/A Coupons View all businesses that are OPEN 24 Hours 1. But something wasnt right. Or I would throw a party. [Wild Style] opened in 1983, [at the Embassy 3] on 47th Street and Broadway. One of many iconic Upper East Side eateries owned by the Santo Family Group . A crack den lined with books. I could feel the presence of someone in the room. And Silk Road. Usually Id take the bus down to Mickeys [Chinese Chance] at 1 University Place, where Julian Schnabel was the cook. When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. But I had a new Mercedes-Benz, and Id leave it in front of the store when I was in Harlem so people knew they could reach me. 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. Ski Bar would issue custom-made lift tickets good for eight drinks apiece. I would be coming back around 4, 4:30, 5 oclock sometimes 6. Where To Drink On The Upper East Side . I tried never to leave my ZIP code. We cant put the money out for something this queer. Then [writer and editor] Bob Colacello saw the project and said, Andy Warhol has a three-book deal with Houghton Mifflin. 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. 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. I committed the tapes to memory; I would do them over and over. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. Team Infatuation August 19, 2022. 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. 2. 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. Now nothings open after 11. I remember this night in particular because of another guest, Jack Henry Abbott, who was living in a halfway house a couple blocks away. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. Taylor Mead had a running tab at multiple bars. We just called it The Bar, which morphed into Ze Bar, like with a fake French accent. Beware salivating yuppie swells there for Ladies Night, the magazine wrote (fondly) of Mannys Car Wash, a Chicago-style blues club on East 87th Street. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. I spent a decade in New York City like that. I was living with my aunt and one of my cousins in a shotgun apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The rain came through, so the clothes were all messed up by brown streaks. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. 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. It must have been late spring of 1981. James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. 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. We were just taken with each other. JAM gallery founder Linda Goode Bryant, circa 1981-82. The Upper East Side of New York City is a Manhattan neighborhood that lies between Central Park and the East River and goes from E. 59th St. to E. 96th St. Hed just been released from prison, and his prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, had been published that week. 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. 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. 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.. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. Having had an alcoholic mother, he did not like being around people who drank much. In the summer of 1981 I was living with Gary Fisketjon, my best friend from college and my future editor at Random House. 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. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. The writer Gay Taleses social calendar for October 1983. People would bring me their videos to pop in. We finished that scene around 6 oclock in the morning. Upper East Side. Amura ($$) Japanese Menu Available. The silence, as they say, was deafening. The people who were chic, the downtowners, pretty much just wore black that could instantly give you a look. The original flier for Kellys show at the Pyramid Club in 1981. They could be stimulated by the heterosexual pornography that was on the screen. It would be drag queens with punk kids, musicians and artists everyone. Melon I ate a lot of hamburgers there. It made the general public aware that people were dying in Brooklyn, in Harlem, in the Bronx. Giuliani sending his goons around to raid things. 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. I made sure there was a hot tub in there. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. 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. You could be a young person in Manhattan back then, Block recalls. Of course, it wasnt just rising rents, Mayor Giuliani, and smart phones that would kill ladies night on the Upper East Side. A lot of very creative, brilliant people were living in rough places downtown, which was dangerous but cheap, but I never did. Ann Magnuson performing at Kenny Scharfs opening atop his Ultima Suprema Deluxa Cadillac on November 14, 1983. Everyone associates me with Jesse Jackson, but actually James Brown is the person I consider most like a mentor. 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. 1. We decided to live together at her place, 84 Eldridge Street. Everybody was happy for him and saying, O.K., its possible, were in the right place, were doing the right thing., I remember the first time we went in and read A Soldiers Play out loud, we were all just staring at each other going, Oh my god, this is amazing. Two days later, Adolph came in, threw his script down, and said, Im ready! And we all looked at him like, Okay, fine! So we all threw our scripts down, too, because everybody had learned the play in like two days. 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. Brandy's Piano Bar. While her friend Sara explained, We dont even like this place. I was still riding a little bit high off of the Diana Ross album Diana, which had come out in 1980. 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. 380 Lafayette St, New York . I was part of the backpacker renaissance; you brought a backpack, so youd have a change of clothes. Id walk to Cooper Union, where I was teaching. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. There were so many actors who lived with us because we had five floors. I was just out of high school. And Dynasty. Ive never gotten over Dynasty. And then people started dying. We had a bar and some makeshift situation where people would collect the door charge, $5 or $10 maybe. We considered the food too depressingly awful. The title was an intentional lure the work wasnt about Grace Kelly, but the painter William Schwedler. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. You were constantly on the phone: Did you see this in the paper? Next door to my apartment on East Eighth and Avenue C was the Green Oasis Community Garden, and I got involved with that. For one assignment, the paper sent me to Washington Heights to photograph what it said was a riot. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . In school, I never fit in at all. The front window was a queer Mount Rushmore, with the heavyweights looking out onto the street: Rene Ricard, Bill Rice, Peter Hujar, Paul Thek. 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. But as soon as we walked in, nearly everyone stood and applauded. You could say I was not a considerate neighbor. When Canadian-born club impresario Peter Gatien came to New York City in the early '80s, after. 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]. The Penrose. 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. In the summer of 1992, New York Magazine published a photo of the Slalom Shots alongside a brief blurb and, according to Block, That more or less started the anarchy in the neighborhood.. 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.
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