Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. 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. And why I got out.. I doubt if many artists experienced it that way. Id get to the gallery late afternoon. 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. 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. Dont come ringing my doorbell! I remember we would go from person to person. Come be a part of it. The doors would open and things would get going by 10, and by midnight it would be raging. It is demeaning to women to be treated this way, claimed Long Island man Richard Savino in 1984. I committed the tapes to memory; I would do them over and over. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. It was raw: It had been a paper storage facility. I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. Its basically the most conscious, relatable record. It's now a Samsung store. We made an altar to a llama, and everyone dressed in kind of Greco-Roman outfits I wore a toga with sequins. Gay and straight people would party together. My dormitory was at the corner of East 14th Street and Union Square. So were in this abandoned lot on a corner of 11th Avenue, somewhere in the high 40s or low 50s and not far from the old deserted elevated slate railroad that became the Highline. Sometimes wed have lunch. 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. Id go for two, three, four hours and have a fairly good time. 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. 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. Ann Magnuson, actress and performance artist. I got my apartment through Stanley Strychacki, the founder of Club 57. Wed say, Theyre not up in the morning, so dont go to them or They have kids, so maybe theyre up because the kids wake up. Wed visit people in the morning, early. Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. I would get some bus money, some pizza money, some soda money and some money to be able to get into a jam. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. 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. 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. Mom says that your apartment looks like a crack den, my daughter told me once. Youd think he would have been the most outrageous-looking person there, but he looked like a businessman. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. 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. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs. Women would crowd around oil drums turned into tables and, while standing on sawdust floors, pound cheap beer and well liquor. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. Pretty girls in pajamas peeked in on my occupied space. And, of course, so did the men. Peter was so self-possessed and dignified, I never, ever thought of him as poor, even though he had no money. We had a bar and some makeshift situation where people would collect the door charge, $5 or $10 maybe. He would maybe drink half a glass of wine. (Never let on to a dog youre afraid of him, my Uncle Charlie would say.) LL wasnt used to this kind of attention. 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. It was nothing but rejection. It seems we could start later than this. 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. Wed been working on the film for a year in dribs and drabs. Someone broke the front glass and stole the poster. It was packed every night; it won the Pulitzer Prize that year. Before that it had been pot. By 1984, Id put my kids in boarding school and left to live in Paris for five years. 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. 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). It was crazy. He had intended whatever conversation we were having to go in another direction. But this was every week. Whats she doing now? She was like [hyperventilating]. Since no ones making them, they dont.. That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. We didnt know how the virus transmitted. 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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. Other times, it literally meant all-you-could-drink, whatever you wanted to drink, on every single night of the week. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. In a letter about her trip, she wrote, When pages needed to be retyped, Jimmy did the retyping. The straight clubs became very, very straight. He and I had dinner every night, and a stream of our friends, including Keith Haring and Debbie Harry, would join. Everyone writes that I was his tour manager, but thats not what it was. The whole reason I was able to raise money for my causes was because of him. I would go there every day to write. Hear Eric Goode remember when he found out about AIDS: I enrolled at the Parsons School of Design in 1982. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. Like Outback, an Australian-themed bar on 93rd and Third Avenue, which hosted Men Are Pigs nights three times a week. Usually Id take the bus down to Mickeys [Chinese Chance] at 1 University Place, where Julian Schnabel was the cook. Hes a Leo all the Leos I know love history. And I just loved that experience. The manager, Dorian Mecir, had a heart of gold. And the director, Charles Fuller, was like, No, youre not really ready you just think you are! Everybody was anxious to do it for an audience, so by the time we opened, it was amazing. ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. No one could believe that this B-actor was about to occupy the White House. They could be stimulated by the heterosexual pornography that was on the screen. And then we said, We gotta do the real hip-hop that were actually doing at the block parties and at the house parties and at the park parties. So we decided to make it all beat no music, just me and Run [Joseph Simmons, another founding member of Run-DMC] doing the real hardcore, just rhyming on this record. But something wasnt right. Arent the both of us up early, I said. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. That was the best place to get fresh bread and rugelach and sweets. But I had no idea what I was photographing. The venues didn't matter to me. 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. Did you come to see the show? I tended to feel particularly safe in the theaters. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. 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. I would go to these obscure classes around the city that were mostly for dancers. And by 1991 a good dozen of the neighborhoods bars were offering similar ladies night deals. Carver came by, down from Syracuse on some publishing business. 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. Its until you pass out.. When me and Run would go to each others houses and rap together, we would go into the attic. We decided to live together at her place, 84 Eldridge Street. On the east side of Lexington, between 78th and 79th, was the best fishmonger Ive ever known: Rosedale. 1. I remember going to a gay club, and I totally bit their look: Daisy Duke shorts, combat boots and the half T-shirt all I did was add fishnet stockings. It wasnt a big deal. 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.. There were very few artists there. I felt like I was having the best entertainment of my life, because people were going up and down the aisle, going, Loose joints People were talking throughout the whole movie going, Yo, shut up! It was just like the kung fu movies they were the same audience. She had made a video of herself dancing to LL Cool J. 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. We finished that scene around 6 oclock in the morning. 1567 2nd Ave, New York, NY I really loved those people the heroism of their everyday lives was palpable, and that was woven into the tapestry of the East Village. And Bowie had no idea that was my background. draw in the skirts that bring in the suits. His show was on at 1 a.m., after Johnny Carson. 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. One place I went to a lot was the St. Marks Baths. 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. Thats pretty good.. 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. That was Sucker M.C.s., I was still living at home. 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. The all-you-can-drink deals just dont happen these days, because the rents are so high, says Block. Where To Drink On The Upper East Side . 1. When we went out it was to perform. I was staying in Garys loft on East Fifth Street between Bowery and Second, on summer break from the writing program at Syracuse, where Id been studying with Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. The ultimate epitome of this wild, boozing-on-the-cheap era, Ski Bar, was located on Second Ave between 94th and 95th. I met David Bowie in 1982 at the Continental on West 25th Street, which had just opened. You werent afraid of getting it, you were wondering when are the symptoms going to show up. 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. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. The Landmarks That Made New York a Cultural Capital, Uptown or Downtown? It was a small scene, people like writer Stephen Saban, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel [Basquiat] and Kenny Scharf. 2. It was very close to the Forward Building, which housed the important Yiddish newspaper. There would be 200 people in there. Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. To me it was all an art project. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. At 11 to 12, Id had a nine-hour day. As told to Kate Guadagnino,Elizabeth Gumport,Merrell Hambleton and Erin Sheehy. This morning was no different than any other. The era might have been old New Yorks last real gasp a time when the very streets, dirty and unsafe as they were, seemed infused with possibility. 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. I asked the kids to demonstrate what theyd been doing. Stephanie Chernikowski/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. 68. We were just taken with each other. So in April we held the Rites of Spring Fertility Bacchanal. Write a Review! Belgian, Crepes, Wine Bar, Coffee Shop Menu Available. I had been starring on Broadway in West Side Story, and I had done the movie Ragtime, which was also coming out, but dance has always been my heartbeat. 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. They would shy away with confused expressions, whispering to their friends. 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. 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. 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. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. It had the best hamburgers and gin martinis. 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. In the mornings, Id walk along 125th Street to the store, which I opened in 82. 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. If you just wanted to grab a sandwich, youd go to Burger Heaven. I came here from Europe at age 22 in the 1960s already married and went to Park Avenue.) 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. I went from area to area of the performance space, onstage and offstage. People would drop change in your hands, turn their heads when you tried to kiss them. They had gotten the idea that it was a very good headquarters. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . Honestly, my mind was empty, but I wanted to be consumed by that emptiness. You could be a young person in Manhattan back then, Block recalls. The front window was a queer Mount Rushmore, with the heavyweights looking out onto the street: Rene Ricard, Bill Rice, Peter Hujar, Paul Thek. We became sort of like brothers. It was almost a surreal experience, because I had the feeling that this person is only vaguely here. Hip-hop artist Prince Whipper Whip of the hip-hop group Grand Wizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five at the Sparkle in the Bronx. 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 the only Xerox machine below 14th Street, so every artist used it. Id walk to Cooper Union, where I was teaching. Two weeks later we were begging to let people come watch us rehearse. Home; . If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. You wanted to be there when it was happening, and then youd migrate at around 2:30 to an after-hours club. Like Geronimos Bamba Bay Cafe (a.k.a. Afterward, wed go to a club. Mozart. We said we were artists, and artists make art. Miller, Edited by Kate Guadagnino and Thessaly La Force. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. 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 got a loft at Clinton and Stanton, which was far from fashionable. The point of ladies night is to get women into bars and get them drunk so that men can score.. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. There was a studio near First Avenue in the 50s that used a dance technique that was a modified version of Pilates. Wednesdays and Thursdays were Ultimate Ladies Night with free Margaritas all evening, not to mention a gratis taco bar during happy hour. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could.