We finished that scene around 6 oclock in the morning. But it did make me very, very moody there were a lot of underground clubs, and they wouldnt jump off till 1 a.m. My life was spiraling downward. In 1981, I had just gotten back from six months on the road with James Brown. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. Bronwyn Thomas, she was like happy feet on her toes. Then our leading lady, Susan Berman, broke her leg, and we had to wait for her to get out of the cast. 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. Our first goal [as Sonic Youth] was getting a gig at CBGB. If you just wanted to grab a sandwich, youd go to Burger Heaven. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. 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. How you doin this morning?, He was young, dressed in jeans, and clearly shocked. The bodegas played loud salsa music late into the night, as Dominican men played dominoes on the corner. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. The point of ladies night is to get women into bars and get them drunk so that men can score.. This morning was no different than any other. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. And Dynasty. Ive never gotten over Dynasty. And then people started dying. Courtesy of John Kelly, photograph by John Dugdale, John Kelly, performance and visual artist. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. 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. Giuliani sending his goons around to raid things. Book with OpenTable. It was really like a combination of living theater and installation art, very communal. We didnt pay rent, but it was meant to be $300 a month. 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. One time a girl a teenager, maybe 15, 16 came in with her dad. The weekend that it happened, I got a call at 2 oclock in the morning from the owner of the theater. 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. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. We would go till 4 a.m. Hell, we would go past 4 a.m. Everything had my initials on it, or the name of somebody else on it; it was really crazy. As soon as he opened [his own place] I started working there, alongside Sara Driver [the filmmaker and partner of Jim Jarmusch]. Id work for 12 hours straight, prepping for my show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. I loved things coming around and you had to grab them, like getting your luggage off a luggage rack. I knew running back up the stairs was a bad idea. Team Infatuation August 19, 2022. But some places were so beloved theyre still talked about fondly today. You were constantly on the phone: Did you see this in the paper? Others would drop by out of curiosity and wonder what was on my mind. Write a Review! 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. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. CBGB was just up the street, and I performed there with my band or as a solo poet many times. 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. He was the voice of every commercial on the radio or television at that time, and the richest among us. By the early 1970s, 20 to 25 percent of American couples had met at a bar, according to Stanford University research. Id make sure everything was in place and see what the new orders were. They are not obliged to talk to anyone. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. I just wanted to be in New York. It was hard. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. Elaine's was a bar and restaurant in New York City that existed from 1963 to 2011. People divided themselves into camps based on which one they favored I liked Odessa better, but Id go to both. Reagan really ruined it for me. 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. I tried to write every single day, first thing in the morning, 10 a.m. It was the three of us. That is, until 2008 when Bennigan's went bankrupt. In those days, there wasnt any downtown, so life was much easier. Silently. Stephanie Chernikowski/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. While her friend Sara explained, We dont even like this place. By ajordahl123. 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 . It was frequented by many celebrities, especially actors and authors. The manager, Dorian Mecir, had a heart of gold. And I got in trouble because I didnt get home until like 1 or 2 in the morning. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. People like Jean-Michel [Basquiat] would come in, who was somebody you knew from Tier 3 and the Mudd Club; someone your age. I was working at the Whitney and helping to open different museum branches, so I was shuttling between 42nd Street, Stamford, Conn., and the downtown branch, which was just a few blocks from where I lived, on Front Street in the South Street Seaport area. As told to Caroline Bankoff,Heather Corcoran,Nancy Hass and M.H. Taylor Mead had a running tab at multiple bars. She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman. When I first moved to Manhattan I was eager to get back to the Bronx as often as possible, so I would go to the Pathmark on 207th Street and pack bags to try to make change. 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 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. Harrys Hula Hut had bamboo walls, palm trees, and Nerf basketball available, plus all-you-can-drink beer. By my late teens, people used to tell me, You and you sister, its like its your job to go clubbing. Maybe five nights a week Id leave Brooklyn around 8:30 or 9 oclock. The Landmarks That Made New York a Cultural Capital, Uptown or Downtown? The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. And then eventually some surface decoration with tucks and treatment Id take the fabric and just sew in any direction. I was kind of tomboyish, but also pretty poor. I couldnt, but I did turn around and walk with him for some blocks to the restaurant. You wanted to be there when it was happening, and then youd migrate at around 2:30 to an after-hours club. It was around the corner from another tiny spot called Chandalier. When we went out it was to perform. This was a luxury ski town, not the Upper East Side, and he had to ultimately tone things down. No one says they have to leave a tip. Veselka was the go-to place to eat and get cake the lemon bundt or the mohn. 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. 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. Brooklyn: Empire Roller Skating Center, a rink with a sound system built by Richard Long that was a favorite of Chers; Albee Square, a public mall where Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie used to hang out. 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. 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. 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. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. I knew people who were dying as early as 79, and three months later their partners were dead, so by 1981 I had a clear picture, even if it hadnt fully sunk in, and it was an incredible life changer. 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! 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 became sort of like brothers. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. It wasnt a big deal. 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. 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. The old downtown art scene was floundering, while some people, like Robert Mapplethorpe, had risen. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. 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. This was our morning ritual: Wed wake up, and if we had $5 on us wed go to the 103 Restaurant on Second Avenue and Sixth Street. Hey, I said. Hed come around maybe at 7 oclock. I loved to walk down Clinton to Delancey I called it Rue de Rves because it was filled with bridal shops with garishly colored dresses. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. I would be coming back around 4, 4:30, 5 oclock sometimes 6. I was living with my parents in the Alfred E. Smith projects on the Lower East Sides waterfront. Peter was straight out of Damon Runyon and Weegee. There is no limit to it. But truthfully, I hated it. 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. The artist David McDermott shot by his then-partner, the artist Peter McGough, East Village, 1983. Wed eat. 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. They would shy away with confused expressions, whispering to their friends. And by 1991 a good dozen of the neighborhoods bars were offering similar ladies night deals. And if I missed it, I felt really bad. I worked part-time for gallerist Annina Nosei. At one end of my block was J.G. 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. 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 lived above a topless club at White and Church. Many of its bartenders have gone on to open their own places. We had a studio on Bleecker near Seventh Avenue. I was living uptown really the classic uptown, which, because I was young, seemed a little wild to some people with my kids and my mother (also, at that time I was in love with a Brazilian man Id met in Bali). You couldnt get people to go to a club before midnight. Of course, it wasnt just rising rents, Mayor Giuliani, and smart phones that would kill ladies night on the Upper East Side. 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. But this was every week. When the sun came up, we would get bagels or pretzels and get back on the train. I lived on the quiet end of Hollis, Queens. 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). There was a popular Puerto Rican dance club, Ochentas, and across the street from that was an Afro-Cuban spot, Club Broadway. I got my apartment through Stanley Strychacki, the founder of Club 57. You could say I was not a considerate neighbor. 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 might be the only person who never lived in a scary New York apartment. The. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Lower East Side sort of a punk rock version of my mothers Junior League group, which I started with some other girls from the East Village hosted several events at the club. It was a kind of a monks cell. My apartment was four stories up, and I got a place on the floor below for Kim Gordon. I tried to focus on my art. During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. It changed everything. I worked in my office at home, an eight-room walk-up on the Upper West Side. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. You simply traveled to where things were happening. 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. I would then either go to work or go to an opening because Macys closed at 8:45 or something, so you had to move on. The original flier for Kellys show at the Pyramid Club in 1981. 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. It became a whole sh*t show, recalls Keith Block. James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. Youd see people that you hadnt seen in months in the street with KS [Kaposis sarcoma] lesions; people would just disappear. Ski Bar would issue custom-made lift tickets good for eight drinks apiece. 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. It was in this desolate area between TriBeCa and Chinatown, and I knew every alley. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. It was run by very old Jewish folks. 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. 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. NR is a cocktail bar on the Upper East Side that serves inventive drinks and solid ramen. Wed bring the coffee back to the lot and keep filming. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. 1. Guerrilla art activities took place all over. But something wasnt right. I was straight-edge, so if I snuck out, I was all right, because I wasnt hungover the next day like the other kids. 2. 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. It was a walk-up. Two editors at Simon & Schuster thought it was terrific, but they said, You have to produce this yourself, and we can possibly get you a distribution deal. We were such fashion victims. And then there were athletes and New York characters a bunch of people who I didnt know what they did, I just knew I saw them all the time. There were others: the Venus, and down in the 14th Street area, the Variety Photoplays, a Spanish one called The Jefferson, The Metropol [Metropolitan]. In retrospect, Bowie was ahead of the curve. There were so many actors who lived with us because we had five floors. I would just sit there. Studio 54 was over after the owners, Steve [Rubell] and Ian [Schrager], got arrested in 1980, so we all migrated to the Mudd Club, on White Street. Upper East Side Aug. 11, 1972 It was a case of mistaken identity, revenge for the sensational rubout of Joey Gallo at Umberto's four months earlier, only this one led to two innocent meat. Darryl McDaniels, musician and member of Run-DMC. I remember the smell of the theaters so well popcorn and weed. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. 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. 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. Its until you pass out.. It was a small scene, people like writer Stephen Saban, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel [Basquiat] and Kenny Scharf. 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. In school, I never fit in at all. 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.. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. I did not know what my passions or imagination would lead to. I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. He goes, What the hell are you doing to my theater? 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). My parents were heroin addicts, beatniks. It had the best hamburgers and gin martinis. Hip-hop artist Prince Whipper Whip of the hip-hop group Grand Wizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five at the Sparkle in the Bronx. 1. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide. Michael Gira, the frontman of the band Swans, was on the [first] cover. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. They were supposed to be 17 or 18. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. Hear Eric Goode remember when he found out about AIDS: I enrolled at the Parsons School of Design in 1982. The silhouette I was doing broad shoulders and thin hip was my way of reinterpreting masculine power, but with humor. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. It was a restaurant a modest place, like an Italian restaurant but really it was an actors hangout. When I was 15, I was in the clubs. My primary motive back then was to put on a show, and anything that slowed me down from that had to be curtailed. I realized I had to leave. Home; . 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. Every parent, every grown-up was your mother and father. The all-you-can-drink deals just dont happen these days, because the rents are so high, says Block. Like the Womens Christian Temperance Union. That is something I have never done with anyone else. She had made a video of herself dancing to LL Cool J. 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. No ID check, nothing. 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. My sense of time was completely distorted. Denzel had just gotten St. A few blocks away was the Ninth Street Bakery. Id walk to Cooper Union, where I was teaching. The Club Kids, led by impresario Michael Alig, turned places like the Limelight into backdrops of drug- and techno-induced drama, while live music dens like the Village Gate presented stages to. Open in Google Maps. We always had coke, and many guests brought their own. It was a total nexus. 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! Other times, it literally meant all-you-could-drink, whatever you wanted to drink, on every single night of the week. I went from area to area of the performance space, onstage and offstage. Id go for two, three, four hours and have a fairly good time. Richard Gere was a fixture, as well as Diana Ross and Princess Caroline. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. (212) 861-2290. 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. I really had no business buying my loft on West Broadway in those years. Load more. I started spending a third of my time there. For a while I lived on the Upper West Side, on the parlor floor of a brownstone on 71st Street between Amsterdam and Columbus. draw in the skirts that bring in the suits. Wed been working on the film for a year in dribs and drabs. I was just out of high school. And when my mother asked me where I was at, I just said, Oh, I was in the attic.. I didnt know what I was doing. When I crossed the bridge, I had my Saturday Night Fever moment the city was for the taking. 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. I was one of the champions of the golden age of promiscuity, though that all ended with AIDS. 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. I returned to New York in 81 after 10 years as an expat. 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. The Upper West Side has always been a great place to buy food, with terrific places for fish and vegetables. It was still a sort of wild west that far uptown, and the facility was quickly dubbed Dormandie Court for the raucous, college-like atmosphere it had created and then fostered. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. All the music [in the atelier on 125th Street] came from the VCR. And shoulder pads. So the artists would often have free rein, and would sometimes sneak up to the roof, especially for the Fourth of July and other events like that. [1] Mozart. When he got sick, we were in a downward spiral for a year and a half. The Upper East Side was the place to party in the early 1990s, recalls Jennifer Capobianco, a bartender from the era. But at midnight, yes, I was often out. He was like the Jimmy Fallon or Trevor Noah of that era. As told to Kate Guadagnino,Elizabeth Gumport,Merrell Hambleton and Erin Sheehy. And Bowie had no idea that was my background. Here, notable locals revisit their routes and routines, from lunch on the Upper East to nighttime sojourns to then-emerging neighborhoods like TriBeCa. It was like a village, yknow? The painter David Salle in his Manhattan studio, 1983. On the east side of Lexington, between 78th and 79th, was the best fishmonger Ive ever known: Rosedale. I would walk around the neighborhood, go down to 42nd Street and do a lot of movie cruising. Hes a Leo all the Leos I know love history. It was kind of a raffish crossroads.
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