There was . Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. 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. 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 . 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. There was likewise Brother Jimmys, a Southern BBQ joint that served overproof punch out of rubber garbage pails. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. The gallery space was on the first floor; our offices were in the basement. Or I would throw a party. In the '80s, 25 East 61st st. was home to B. Harris & Sons, jeweler to the stars! I met Peter Hujar through Susan Sontag. Sam was doing Ragtime, and then he did A Soldiers Play on Broadway. I would drink quite a lot of wine. His name opened every door for me. 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. We would get on at the ramp at Chambers Street and ski up to Spring Street to the Ear Inn. The conversation was very interesting. Likewise, by the end of the 1990s, the cocktail revival was just about to start in earnest in Manhattan pioneering cocktail bars such as Angels Share and Milk & Honey would open in 1993 and 1999, respectively and the craft beer and brewpub scene was in its infancy, and just about to explode in the aughts. At that time, Chelsea was unexplored territory. 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. 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. Then you would call at 10, or 10 after, to check in with your agent to see if there was anything going that day. Wed bring the coffee back to the lot and keep filming. 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. Youd sit at the bar and someone would say: Hey, were going to Danceteria. Or theyd have a car and youd find yourself in the East Village, which was a total war zone, with junkies passed out and men building fires in trash cans. 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. An important place to have breakfast was Buffas, on the corner of Lafayette and Prince youd see Jim Jarmusch and Jonathan Demme in the booths there. A group of artists, friends and a few colleagues, including Marcia Tucker, the founder of the New Museum, demolished what remained of a former meatpacking company and converted it into JAMs new space. 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. Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. He slowed and turned around: Yeah, you too.. 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. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. I tried to write every single day, first thing in the morning, 10 a.m. draw in the skirts that bring in the suits. Not all these bars were necessarily beloved. They called it rocking early breaking, essentially. Then our leading lady, Susan Berman, broke her leg, and we had to wait for her to get out of the cast. I didnt smoke or drink, and when you dont do those things, you need an outlet. We decided to live together at her place, 84 Eldridge Street. Police barricades up and down Second Avenue. 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. There would be all of the amazing designer clothes that nobody wanted, that were too weird. It made the general public aware that people were dying in Brooklyn, in Harlem, in the Bronx. Pizza with Duck Sausage wins quick stardom. And then off wed go! Her father said, Dap, my daughter, shes driving me crazy. 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. 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. We blasted Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson. Youd see people that you hadnt seen in months in the street with KS [Kaposis sarcoma] lesions; people would just disappear. In the 1980s, the restaurant began to decline, as it switched up menu items in favor of more chicken and fish. Upstairs, the formally attired crowd (jackets required, gentlemen) dines on classic fare including the 21 Caesar Salad, Creamy Chicken Hash, and the ever-popular 21 Burger, which has been on the . I would get back home [from school] at a decent hour, four in the afternoon. And then eventually some surface decoration with tucks and treatment Id take the fabric and just sew in any direction. Bronwyn Thomas, she was like happy feet on her toes. On NYCs Upper East Side, Ladies Night Ruled the 90s Until It Didnt | VinePair, https://vinepair.com/articles/ladies-night-wars-nyc/, wbs_cat Spirit, ladies\' night, laws, manhattan, women, Domaine Champalou Vouvray 2019, Loire Valley, France | VinePair, https://vinepair.com/good-wine-reviews/domaine-champalou-vouvray-2019-loire-valley-france/, wbs_cat Wine, wbs_type Vouvray, wbs_brand Domaine Champalou, chenin blanc, good wine, Vouvray. Boozy, drug-fueled parties that lasted until dawn. I had the gallery in L.A., and I had just bought a house in Venice, so I was completely overextended, and it worried me. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who lived in New York City in the early 80s. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. But truthfully, I hated it. What the hell?. Now nothings open after 11. 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. For one assignment, the paper sent me to Washington Heights to photograph what it said was a riot. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. 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. Kamalis clothes cleverly combined athletic wear and fabric with high-fashion cuts and silhouettes, perfectly embodying the era. 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. 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. I could wake up in the middle of the night and hear his typewriter going. The. Pretty girls in pajamas peeked in on my occupied space. It had no closets, so somebody put up a bar so I could hang clothes. Thats why I started wearing silver hoop earrings. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. Its until you pass out.. And then he asked me again: Dap, whats she doing? An unpublished male nude Polaroid from 1981 by photographer Tom Bianchi. Then we had Woody Allen. Jumbo-sized martini glasses smeared with ruby lipstick. I could feel the presence of someone in the room. Others would drop by out of curiosity and wonder what was on my mind. It was right next to the Chelsea Hotel, where I was living. I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku. The straight clubs became very, very straight. [1] It was before he was onstage and all that; he was just starting out. It seems we could start later than this. People like Jean-Michel [Basquiat] would come in, who was somebody you knew from Tier 3 and the Mudd Club; someone your age. 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. I was straight-edge, so if I snuck out, I was all right, because I wasnt hungover the next day like the other kids. 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. That is, until 2008 when Bennigan's went bankrupt. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. My primary motive back then was to put on a show, and anything that slowed me down from that had to be curtailed. I knew so many people in Harlem, I kept a second apartment in the Bronx, where I tried to be unseen. Here, notable locals revisit their routes and routines, from lunch on the Upper East to nighttime sojourns to then-emerging neighborhoods like TriBeCa. 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. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide. Some of the best bars on the Upper East Side cultivate the feeling of "Old New York.". I remember the smell of the theaters so well popcorn and weed. It was run by very old Jewish folks. Wed spend hours getting our outfits together buying stuff at Canal Plastics Center, stapling photo booth pictures onto our jackets. She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman. 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. Id go with Andy Warhol, or to dinner and then to Studio 54 afterwards. And then we had Robert Rauschenberg, a rascal and a great man. You were constantly on the phone: Did you see this in the paper? Sometimes wed have lunch. Miller, Edited by Kate Guadagnino and Thessaly La Force. I would be coming back around 4, 4:30, 5 oclock sometimes 6. Many of these bars tried to offer a sort of bridge from cheap college boozing to costly, real-world imbibing. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. Initially, owner Klay Reynolds had allowed ladies to drink whatever they desired; then he went through more Baileys Irish Cream in the first month he offered the deal than he would have expected to go through for all of 1991. We did a deep dive into the most avant-garde, atonal jazz. 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. JAM gallery founder Linda Goode Bryant, circa 1981-82. 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. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. The loft was across the street from Castelli [Gallery]. I had no student loans and the housing was still affordable. Id go for two, three, four hours and have a fairly good time. The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. It was just shattering, but of course I had to pretend that this was the surprise that I had brought my board to see. Originally part of the Pillsbury Corp., the restaurant was founded in 1976. And I got in trouble because I didnt get home until like 1 or 2 in the morning. Youd think he would have been the most outrageous-looking person there, but he looked like a businessman. Then it got to be a habit. There's always a striking contrast to what it was and what it is now. And thats why Block thinks youll never again see an era like the early 1990s on the Upper East Side. That is something I have never done with anyone else. A crack den lined with books. After three, four months there, we decided to turn our loft into a nightclub. We would go till 4 a.m. Hell, we would go past 4 a.m. 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. 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. Money was secondary to being able to have this playground we could create. People would bring me their videos to pop in. I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. In 80, I got a job at Todds Copy on Mott Street. 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. It all depended on who was playing. Fleming's was a fun Irish bar on the upper east side in the 1980s & 1990s, up until it closed in 1994. James Brown and the Rev. Id get to the gallery late afternoon. Belgian, Crepes, Wine Bar, Coffee Shop Menu Available. You couldnt get people to go to a club before midnight. Before that it had been pot. And yet, plenty of ladies were also against them. 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. It had a tub in the kitchen, a tiny little toilet bowl in a closet of a room, one narrow hallway room and a slightly bigger front room maybe $210. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. I was like, Oh cool, youre doing art too? Bands would put up fliers all over SoHo; there were wheat-paste fliers everywhere. In 1980, I was working as a staff photographer for the New York Post. In 1981, I had just gotten back from six months on the road with James Brown. I was sneaking out. And when she gave me the phone back, she went into [hysterics]. Nan Goldin was a block up, and William Burroughs lived downstairs. 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! I was part of the backpacker renaissance; you brought a backpack, so youd have a change of clothes. I lived on the quiet end of Hollis, Queens. Everyone was very excited. I was living with my parents in the Alfred E. Smith projects on the Lower East Sides waterfront. 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. (By the time we filmed Desperately Seeking Susan in 84, New York was already beginning to become more gentrified.) 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. 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. The old downtown art scene was floundering, while some people, like Robert Mapplethorpe, had risen. I had to be at the theater by 7 oclock so I could start my process and get ready before half-hour call. I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. So I flipped on the light and said, Good Morning! Im a child of the Midwestern upper-middle class. 1. So I call LL up and I let her speak to him for a few minutes. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. 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. There was a thing I did every Friday night because my boyfriend [now husband, artist Carroll Dunham] worked at Time magazine, so I wasnt out looking for guys. We were both rather exotic in each others eyes. Drunk patrons would dance on the bar top, well before Coyote Ugly, which would open in January of 1993, had popularized such shenanigans. Lobster Newburg as it looks today. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. Hey, lets go get drunk at a bar.. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. Then it was getting a good time slot at CBGB, so you werent on last and werent on first. The all-you-can-drink deals just dont happen these days, because the rents are so high, says Block. I was doing A Soldiers Play with the Negro Ensemble Company, working with Denzel [Washington], Adolph Caesar, Larry Riley, James Pickens, Brent Jennings, Cotter Smith. Guthrie Inn on the other hand perfectly captures how living on the Upper East Side feels in reality; a bit isolated and quiet at times, a haven from downtown at other times, comfortable yet on the rise, and full of an interesting cast of characters. By ajordahl123. I would walk around the neighborhood, go down to 42nd Street and do a lot of movie cruising. The object was to keep stitching no matter what happened to the fabric. 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. One of his favorite pieces was the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms, sung by Dame Janet Baker. I would go there every day to write. I lived above a topless club at White and Church. Spankys, a sports bar on 75th Street, attracted the young Republican crowd that had begun to invade the area. The title was an intentional lure the work wasnt about Grace Kelly, but the painter William Schwedler. PM: We refused to take a job. Otherwise neighborhood wasnt as important as finding a space one guy I knew, the photographer Patrick McMullan, lived in the coat-check room of a former hotel. 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. James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. We recorded at a studio called Greene Street Recording Studio on Greene Street between Houston and Prince. It was like a village, yknow? We considered the food too depressingly awful. 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. When I was 15, I was in the clubs. Do you even think about what it was like in Brooklyn? Silently. 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. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. Ski Bar turned into a Taco Bell and Block moved to Telluride, Colo., where he and Singer opened a similar bar, Poachers Pub. My first loss was my partner, around the time Grace Kelly died in 1982. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. He was with his editor Erroll McDonald, a good friend of ours, but he refused to come into the room, remaining near the door with his back against the wall. And Im not a corporate client, so please give me a break. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 Bodega 88 Night Clubs Bars Brew Pubs (19) 8.6 Website (212) 799-1602 573 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024 CLOSED NOW 2. You did a lot of the auditions immediately. Then we hit the clubs: Sound Factory, the Roxy, the Fun House. If you just wanted to grab a sandwich, youd go to Burger Heaven. I just left the house on a Sunday, went to make the record. We would sit at this coffee table and listen to records for an hour. 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. I invited him to dinner. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. 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. 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. Adolph would regale us with stories. 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. Home; . I decided to start a music fanzine around 82; I called it Killer. When Todd wasnt looking, Id be running off copies and stapling them together. I couldnt, but I did turn around and walk with him for some blocks to the restaurant. 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.
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