This was a moment in Manhattan history that had never really been seen before and hasnt been seen since. It would be drag queens with punk kids, musicians and artists everyone. I would walk around the neighborhood, go down to 42nd Street and do a lot of movie cruising. CBGB was just up the street, and I performed there with my band or as a solo poet many times. 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. He was like the Jimmy Fallon or Trevor Noah of that era. 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. Have a good day. His hands were in his pockets now. Id walk to Cooper Union, where I was teaching. We liked to get there early, which the club promoters loved because wed get the party started. One (Instagram) showing somebody stumbling out of your bar and youre out of business, he believes. 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. The Upper West Side has always been a great place to buy food, with terrific places for fish and vegetables. We didnt know how the virus transmitted. It was a very quiet audience. Jumbo-sized martini glasses smeared with ruby lipstick. People thought I was a little crazy. So when they talked to me about playing the character Lydia Grant, the dance teacher, I said, Yes, I would be so interested if I could also be responsible for the choreography. Because by this time, I had been developing as a choreographer, working with the Henry Street Playhouse and the New York Shakespeare Festival, and I really loved doing it. Elsewhere, so he was going back and forth between doing the TV show and the play. Melon I ate a lot of hamburgers there. I saw Jody Watley on television, and I was like, They dont steal silver, Im going to wear those!. NR is a cocktail bar on the Upper East Side that serves inventive drinks and solid ramen. 1. Upper East Side. Many of the bars of this era were, in fact, themed, and sometimes cheesily so. It was pitch-dark. The Upper East Side was the place to party in the early 1990s, recalls Jennifer Capobianco, a bartender from the era. Courtesy of John Kelly, photograph by John Dugdale, John Kelly, performance and visual artist. He recognized me and stopped to congratulate me on the film. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. Lines around the block. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. It was the three of us. Michael Gira, the frontman of the band Swans, was on the [first] cover. That is, until 2008 when Bennigan's went bankrupt. Very quickly, I realized it had potential to be a book. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. It is demeaning to women to be treated this way, claimed Long Island man Richard Savino in 1984. 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. 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. I was sneaking out. I had glasses, so I put these flip-up sunglass visors on them. It was a total nexus. When Canadian-born club impresario Peter Gatien came to New York City in the early '80s, after. No ID check, nothing. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. I worked in my office at home, an eight-room walk-up on the Upper West Side. Sam was doing Ragtime, and then he did A Soldiers Play on Broadway. It was packed every night; it won the Pulitzer Prize that year. Many of its bartenders have gone on to open their own places. Zipped into a distressed red velvet number, I was the wacky blonde June Buntt, who liked to say the second T is silent. I was married to the astronaut Brad Buntt, who liked to say hed been in space for years now. The writer Dennis Cooper, in blue jean coveralls, was Mavis Purvis, a lesbian farmer living on a rural commune with her girlfriend. Peter had no small talk at all. 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. The apartment had this old refrigerator that didnt have room for much, so in the winter Id keep everything out on the fire escape. Miller, Edited by Kate Guadagnino and Thessaly La Force. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. I also had a tiny place on 12th Street between Greenwich and Washington the top back room of a falling-apart townhouse that the owner was renting out. I would go there every day to write. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. It was on 35th and Fifth, and it was a place where the sushi came around on a conveyor belt. 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. One place I went to a lot was the St. Marks Baths. It made me immobile. And yet, over the years, bars continued to try to offer ladies night deals (whether discounted or completely free drinks) and various factions had tried to stop them. Youd have Chinese opera and then some kind of Russian circus act and then a punk band and then a drag queen. These parties inevitably blur together in my mind, but I remember that night because a week later, Abbott stabbed and killed a waiter at the Binibon cafe, a few doors down the block. Load more. I would get back home [from school] at a decent hour, four in the afternoon. My dormitory was at the corner of East 14th Street and Union Square. He goes, What the hell are you doing to my theater? The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. Police barricades up and down Second Avenue. There were no movie theaters, bookstores, galleries or photocopy shops, so my entrepreneurial idea, which failed, was to open one, Chelsea Copy. I started going to local clubs in Brooklyn at about 14 years old. Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. Rapping and fashion were being born at the same time. Id go for two, three, four hours and have a fairly good time. I unlocked the door. I would be coming back around 4, 4:30, 5 oclock sometimes 6. My habit must have appeared bizarre to my peers. My life was spiraling downward. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. And yet, Ski Bars five-year run from 1990 until 1995 remains so memorable that close-knit regulars, many with adult children by now, continue to maintain a Facebook group to swap stories, and uniquely 90s photos from the era. Every night was a huge passeggiata with people perusing the blankets. I asked the kids to demonstrate what theyd been doing. hip-hop open mic nights and more than a few not-entirely-cool bars around the Upper East Side. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. Poets ruled the evening Tim Dlugos, still a few years from writing his haunting G-9 poem about an AIDS ward, was Bernadette of Lourdes. Maxi Cohen, Area, 1985, Ladies Rooms Around The World, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio and Chambers Fine Art. We were very, very thin. (How many spinal taps can you give to someone under a refrigeration blanket whose fever wouldnt break?) [The clothes] were really like one-plus-one, big squares with holes, basically. Talk to the actors as they drifted in about your day, talk about whos auditioning for what. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. The conversation was very interesting. 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. We had a prom, a debutante ball, a ladies wrestling night. After shows at La MaMa, we would go to the gay bar on East Fourth Street and Second Ave. 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. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. Columbia Pictures had given me this SX-70 camera at a conference, and I started documenting life in the Fire Island Pines [an area of Long Island known as a haven for gay life], which just seemed very important to me. A guy in a black cocktail dress teetering precariously on the sill of an open window in a rear apartment (Room 410) of the Chelsea Hotel, screaming into the night. You could be a young person in Manhattan back then, Block recalls. And Silk Road. It changed everything. When our gallery, Gracie Mansion, started, both Gracie and I had other jobs, so we would switch off. Id been divorced and on my own since 1977 I had started the business with my husband a decade earlier and it felt like women were waking up. Could you just call LL so she could just say hi? Everybody knew I knew all the rappers and everything. 26 places sorted by traveler favorites Clear all filters 1. I was living at almost the exact point where the Village meets the East Village, in the Colonnade Row building, right across the street from the Public Theater. The room I shared with two other students was on the top floor of the building facing the park. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth performing at CBGB in 1983. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. I couldnt, but I did turn around and walk with him for some blocks to the restaurant. We would get on at the ramp at Chambers Street and ski up to Spring Street to the Ear Inn. 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. The front window was a queer Mount Rushmore, with the heavyweights looking out onto the street: Rene Ricard, Bill Rice, Peter Hujar, Paul Thek. The whole reason I was able to raise money for my causes was because of him. Spanning the late 1980s through the late 1990s, . We always had coke, and many guests brought their own. 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. Peter cant keep going that way, not in the city that its becoming now. On the east side of Lexington, between 78th and 79th, was the best fishmonger Ive ever known: Rosedale. Carnegie Deli Carnegie Deli. But it had started with a simple idea: What if a bar just let women drink for free? When the sun came up, we would get bagels or pretzels and get back on the train. But some places were so beloved theyre still talked about fondly today. Wheres Joe? Eventually youd realize that he died, and his family came and put his artwork in a dumpster. But I didnt feel super cool or anything. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. 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. Broadway 96 [Club Broadway] was more geared to black and Latino youth and that was definitely a wilder place. But as soon as we walked in, nearly everyone stood and applauded. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. There would be all of the amazing designer clothes that nobody wanted, that were too weird. People divided themselves into camps based on which one they favored I liked Odessa better, but Id go to both. 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. There's always a striking contrast to what it was and what it is now. One time a girl a teenager, maybe 15, 16 came in with her dad. The silence, as they say, was deafening. And they were there illegally. Her father said, Dap, my daughter, shes driving me crazy. The deal with him was he never had to come and he never had to give any money, but he would give his name and a recommendation. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. The essence of Upper East Side gentility, Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle is also the last public space to display the mural work of Ludwig Bemelmans, creator of the iconic children's book character and prolific illustrator of the 1940s and '50s. And we had Tina Chow, who had such unearthly beauty she would come into a room and just drift. We did a deep dive into the most avant-garde, atonal jazz. As soon as he opened [his own place] I started working there, alongside Sara Driver [the filmmaker and partner of Jim Jarmusch]. If you remember Flemings, this event is for you: Saturday, December 4 Fleming's Reunion Party 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.
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