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I think that free drinks for women is discriminatory and a bad idea, wrote Cynthia Heimel, a feminist columnist, in the November 1991 issue of Playboy. There was a popular Puerto Rican dance club, Ochentas, and across the street from that was an Afro-Cuban spot, Club Broadway. 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. It's now a Samsung store. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. The original flier for Kellys show at the Pyramid Club in 1981. Its until you pass out.. My contemporary, the writer Ed [Edmund] White, had the apartment next door. It was a very different kind of neighborhood from the one I grew up in in Harlem just starting to be gentrified. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. We would go till 4 a.m. Hell, we would go past 4 a.m. 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. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. But where was the battlefield? It had no closets, so somebody put up a bar so I could hang clothes. Belgian, Crepes, Wine Bar, Coffee Shop Menu Available. We recorded at a studio called Greene Street Recording Studio on Greene Street between Houston and Prince. A walk across the Williamsburg Bridge just to save a subway token. After three, four months there, we decided to turn our loft into a nightclub. There's always a striking contrast to what it was and what it is now. But I didnt feel super cool or anything. 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 slept when I was exhausted and awoke when I was refreshed. 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. 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. 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. Reagan really ruined it for me. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. I was eating very healthfully, which wasnt easy then, seeking out the few macrobiotic restaurants there were. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. Every night was a huge passeggiata with people perusing the blankets. Then it was getting a good time slot at CBGB, so you werent on last and werent on first. Afterward, wed go to a club. They could be stimulated by the heterosexual pornography that was on the screen. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. Can you come back later? The apartment had this old refrigerator that didnt have room for much, so in the winter Id keep everything out on the fire escape. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. Book with OpenTable. Home; . By the early 1970s, 20 to 25 percent of American couples had met at a bar, according to Stanford University research. Melon I ate a lot of hamburgers there. The liquor laws werent as strict Ski Bar didnt have to have a kitchen nor serve any food and rent was cheap, both for bar space and the nearby apartments. I never saw that before and hed never experienced that. 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. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. The point of ladies night is to get women into bars and get them drunk so that men can score.. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (far right) in Spell #7, 1979. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. We blasted Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson. 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. 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. Theyd say, Yo, Dap, listen to that. All the hip-hop artists came [to the atelier]; there wasnt any other place that catered to rappers. That is something I have never done with anyone else. 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. 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. Pizza with Duck Sausage wins quick stardom. I asked the kids to demonstrate what theyd been doing. 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. The bakery, located in the front and open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., is great for an excellent croissant and coffee break. We had a bar and some makeshift situation where people would collect the door charge, $5 or $10 maybe. Clear all filters. The crass reason, of course, is because since the beginning of time, straight men have wanted to be drinking in the same place women are drinking because, yes, men are pigs. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. Or worse. I spent a decade in New York City like that. My habit must have appeared bizarre to my peers. It wasnt actually the best place to hear or see bands, but it was always exciting. I went over and started chatting with him, and we became completely engrossed in this conversation about jazz. 380 Lafayette St, New York . 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 wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. And if I missed it, I felt really bad. My parents were heroin addicts, beatniks. ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. 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. 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. Silently. 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. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth performing at CBGB in 1983. 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. David McDermott and Peter McGough, artists. 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. Thats why I started wearing silver hoop earrings. You could order a pizza anytime. 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.. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. So we were really supporting ourselves! Basically, we walk in, get our free drinks, give the scum dirty looks and walk out, a college student named Rebecca said of the Far Out Lounge. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. I would go to these obscure classes around the city that were mostly for dancers. We blacked out the skylights and windows and painted most of it gold very Warholian. Her upstairs neighbor was artist Dan Graham, who I knew through the artist-poet Vito Acconci. Sorry.. 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. Spankys, a sports bar on 75th Street, attracted the young Republican crowd that had begun to invade the area. 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. 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. An unpublished male nude Polaroid from 1981 by photographer Tom Bianchi. Talk to the actors as they drifted in about your day, talk about whos auditioning for what. I unlocked the door. We had a studio on Bleecker near Seventh Avenue. Some of them were open 24 hours a day, or they were closed maybe four hours a day for cleaning. 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. 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. I was one of the champions of the golden age of promiscuity, though that all ended with AIDS. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs.. A lot of it was crack. 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. [By 1 a.m.] Id be somewhere like [the TriBeCa No Wave club] Tier 3, seeing [the electronic Berlin band] Malaria!, and then walking over to Daves Luncheonette. It was chaired by Brendan Gill, a great theater critic and architecture writer. Thelonious Monk or Nina Simone or Gloria Lynne would stop by to visit them, so I grew up around these real bebop superstars. One time a girl a teenager, maybe 15, 16 came in with her dad. I was finishing my dissertation and working as the porn critic for the New York Native, so Id go up to the Adonis at 51st and Eighth and different theaters in Times Square. [Wild Style] opened in 1983, [at the Embassy 3] on 47th Street and Broadway. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. 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 to be at the theater by 7 oclock so I could start my process and get ready before half-hour call. I had no student loans and the housing was still affordable. Youd think he would have been the most outrageous-looking person there, but he looked like a businessman. 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. Brandy's Piano Bar. There is no limit to it. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. State records are incomplete. I would just sit there. He slowed and turned around: Yeah, you too.. I was like, Oh cool, youre doing art too? Bands would put up fliers all over SoHo; there were wheat-paste fliers everywhere. Very quickly, I realized it had potential to be a book. During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. Thankfully, most seemed to only be of the public urination and inconsiderate noise variety, angering wealthy locals. I started JAM in 1974 to show the work of African-American artists and other artists of color. It wasnt a big deal. 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. I was still riding a little bit high off of the Diana Ross album Diana, which had come out in 1980. Plodding. It would be drag queens with punk kids, musicians and artists everyone. Many of these bars tried to offer a sort of bridge from cheap college boozing to costly, real-world imbibing. Not only did Mr. Brown come on with me, but Muhammad Ali did, too. And why I got out.. It was the only Xerox machine below 14th Street, so every artist used it. And we had Tina Chow, who had such unearthly beauty she would come into a room and just drift. Youd get into costume, put makeup on, make sure your props were in the right place, talk to the stage manager. I was just out of high school. The gallery space was on the first floor; our offices were in the basement. 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. That was the best place to get fresh bread and rugelach and sweets. 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. They were spinning on their heads, the cops said. Stephanie Chernikowski/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Learn more about historic floods. 68. 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]. We called the area TriBeCa, but we laughed about it the same way we laughed at DUMBO. And then he asked me again: Dap, whats she doing? I returned to New York in 81 after 10 years as an expat. You couldnt do nothing stupid or bad because your friends mother was your mother, too. Jane Fonda had recently released her workout tapes, and it was the first opportunity a lot of women had to exercise. My first loss was my partner, around the time Grace Kelly died in 1982. 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. This kind of activity is highly socially ordered: You dont barge in on other people, thats all part of it. That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. See more ideas about memories, restaurant, howard johnson's. Have a good day. His hands were in his pockets now. There were very few artists there. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. Here, notable locals revisit their routes and routines, from lunch on the Upper East to nighttime sojourns to then-emerging neighborhoods like TriBeCa. People would drop change in your hands, turn their heads when you tried to kiss them. I invited him to dinner. Everything had my initials on it, or the name of somebody else on it; it was really crazy. You can walk down the. I said, Im very happy for you, youre selling a lot of tickets. Id dance until about two in the morning and then Id go back to work. Did you come to see the show? Arent the both of us up early, I said. This was the scene at 2 a.m. on a Friday night in the spring of 1983 when my lover (as we called ourselves then), the film director Howard Brookner, and I threw the first of our preposterous Ladies Parties. Thurston was a scholar. I realized I had to leave. 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. I did not know what my passions or imagination would lead to. Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. You could say I was not a considerate neighbor. Peter was so self-possessed and dignified, I never, ever thought of him as poor, even though he had no money. And by 1991 a good dozen of the neighborhoods bars were offering similar ladies night deals. 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. 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. There were no movie theaters, bookstores, galleries or photocopy shops, so my entrepreneurial idea, which failed, was to open one, Chelsea Copy. 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. Nan Goldin was a block up, and William Burroughs lived downstairs. Hey, lets go get drunk at a bar.. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. He was the voice of every commercial on the radio or television at that time, and the richest among us. It made the general public aware that people were dying in Brooklyn, in Harlem, in the Bronx. 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. It is demeaning to women to be treated this way, claimed Long Island man Richard Savino in 1984. Hear Kim Gordon recount her first impressions of New York City: People say that Manhattan was dirty and dangerous in the early 80s, and I just have to laugh. 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. They were supposed to be 17 or 18. I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. Or his family didnt come, and the landlord put his work in a dumpster. They would shy away with confused expressions, whispering to their friends. And the hair. I tried to focus on my art. 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). The Oldest Bars on the Upper East Side East 86th St Association The legendary Tommy Rowles at Bemelman's (photo credit: VictoriaMcGinley.com) The Oldest Bars on the Upper East Side April 08, 2017 Tracking down the oldest bar on the Upper East Side is no easy task! Theyre exploiting women by using them to attract men, claimed its spokeswoman, Daveda Copeland. People used to say, The East Village will be gone when theres a Gap, and then, in the late 80s, one opened on the corner of St. Marks and Second Avenue. The painter David Salle in his Manhattan studio, 1983. 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. 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. I saw Jody Watley on television, and I was like, They dont steal silver, Im going to wear those!. We were just taken with each other. You were constantly on the phone: Did you see this in the paper? I had half of the third floor, which was sort of the high-ceilinged fancy room, though it had long, long since stopped being fancy. 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. I just wanted to be in New York. Other times, it literally meant all-you-could-drink, whatever you wanted to drink, on every single night of the week. Cities . My favorite was the Mine Shaft, a very performative kind of sex bar on Little West 12th Street that had a kind of punk, anti-disco vibe. Bob introduced us, and Dustin congratulated me on the film and told me my acting was naturalistic. It dawned on me that there are so many different styles of acting and you dont have to adhere to just one. One of his favorite pieces was the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms, sung by Dame Janet Baker. Everything was different for me. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. Here, women can drink all they want all night long for absolutely nothing, wrote The New York Times in covering the phenomenon in April of 1991. Money was secondary to being able to have this playground we could create. These places were used largely by working-class men, white, black and Latino, people who thought of themselves as straight and gay, many of whom were amenable to sexual things. You would have Rock Steady Crew and Zulu Nation on one side of the room, and this notorious gang called the Ball Busters on the other. It was on 35th and Fifth, and it was a place where the sushi came around on a conveyor belt. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. If we got too cold or needed coffee, we would go over to 12th Avenue, where there were these old, sort of silver-clad Greek coffee shops that just dont exist anymore. Our first goal [as Sonic Youth] was getting a gig at CBGB. We would get on at the ramp at Chambers Street and ski up to Spring Street to the Ear Inn. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. The other was he wouldnt say anything, just [shrug] that meant it was a failure. He had two responses: Pretty good, was high, high praise. In the early 80s, I had a great loft in the meatpacking district, which at that point was full of meat hanging on hooks and blood running in the streets. Someone broke the front glass and stole the poster. Sam was doing Ragtime, and then he did A Soldiers Play on Broadway. And then off wed go! We decided to live together at her place, 84 Eldridge Street. There would be 200 people in there. Lines around the block. 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. This was a moment in Manhattan history that had never really been seen before and hasnt been seen since. 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. Carnegie Deli Carnegie Deli. The silence, as they say, was deafening. 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. 2. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. 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! He goes, What the hell are you doing to my theater? I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. Wed eat. In 1972, the New York State Human Rights Commission ruled that reduced-priced ladies days at Yankee Stadium discriminated against men. 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. Spanning the late 1980s through the late 1990s, . Delmonico's, 21-23 William Street (1831-1923, intermittently thereafter) In 1831 Swiss brothers John and Peter Delmonico founded the city's first . And if we didnt have the money, wed go to the matre d it was absurd because this restaurant was in the middle of the slums and say, Can we pay you tomorrow? and theyd let us. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. Afternoon workouts. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. That completely opened my mind. 26 places sorted by traveler favorites Clear all filters 1. 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. In the lot there are three vehicles. It was in this desolate area between TriBeCa and Chinatown, and I knew every alley. (Never let on to a dog youre afraid of him, my Uncle Charlie would say.) Then you checked to see if there was anything in the theater papers for auditions. 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. They were more McDermotts friends, because my friends were working in fashion and they were like, Oh, get a job, bitch! If I threw a party, by midnight there was probably an especially good mix of people there. Shan among its residents. Here are our favorites. It had the best hamburgers and gin martinis. 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. In the mornings, Id walk along 125th Street to the store, which I opened in 82. I found them very original, underivative of the 60s or 70s they had a cleanness and a strength to them. Even if it would attract the ladies, you couldnt give away an $8 IPA, a $15 Old Fashioned for free. Meanwhile, 25 new bars had opened between 76th and 96th Streets in the first years of the 1990s as well. I remember thinking, How long can this go on? 1. If I were going out that night, Id go see Garren to fix my hair. I knew running back up the stairs was a bad idea. 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. It was packed every night; it won the Pulitzer Prize that year. In the summer of 1981 I was living with Gary Fisketjon, my best friend from college and my future editor at Random House. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. 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. There would be all of the amazing designer clothes that nobody wanted, that were too weird. Brandy's Piano Bar 68 Bars & Clubs Gay Bars Upper East Side Open now It was established, owned by and named after Elaine Kaufman, who was indelibly associated with the restaurant; Elaine's shut down several months after Kaufman died. And they were there illegally. I made a short performance called Life Without Grace, a kind of eulogy. 1982 Having introduced nouvelle cuisine at Ma Maison in Los Angeles, Chef Wolfgang Puck presents "California cuisine" to patrons of his new chic-casual Sunset Strip restaurant, Spago. I made sure there was a hot tub in there. But some places were so beloved theyre still talked about fondly today. I had just moved the gallery to Franklin Street in TriBeCa from West 57th Street. 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.

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