Sorry.. When I first moved to the city, there was a garbage strike. It was a brilliantly sunny day, and standing outside was Dustin Hoffman. 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. It's now a Samsung store. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. $5 all-you-can-drink that was my bar menu., 2014 - 2023 VinePair Inc. Made In NYC, Bartenders: Now's Your Chance To Experience Barbados. 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. It was on 35th and Fifth, and it was a place where the sushi came around on a conveyor belt. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. 1. A crack den lined with books. I remember thinking, How long can this go on? And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word. Gay and straight people would party together. We were in the habit of throwing parties on Saturday nights. I was still riding a little bit high off of the Diana Ross album Diana, which had come out in 1980. 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 were very, very thin. When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. 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. I never saw that before and hed never experienced that. Learn more about historic floods. One day, I was walking uptown to an appointment just before noon, and coming toward me was Robert Duvall. 26 places sorted by traveler favorites Clear all filters 1. He recognized me and stopped to congratulate me on the film. Mos), a Tex-Mex slash surfer-themed bar with a totemistic statue of Geronimo the Apache Surfer hanging by the entrance and countless big screen TVs. It made me immobile. And I got in trouble because I didnt get home until like 1 or 2 in the morning. The writer Gay Taleses social calendar for October 1983. Here, notable locals revisit their routes and routines, from lunch on the Upper East to nighttime sojourns to then-emerging neighborhoods like TriBeCa. 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. We didnt pay rent, but it was meant to be $300 a month. Clear all filters. 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. 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. Meanwhile, 25 new bars had opened between 76th and 96th Streets in the first years of the 1990s as well. While her friend Sara explained, We dont even like this place. Even if it would attract the ladies, you couldnt give away an $8 IPA, a $15 Old Fashioned for free. 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. He needed someone he trusted. Those were developers terms. Todd didnt like the idea that I was doing a fanzine. New York City's Most Classic Restaurants - Town & Country She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman. Wed eat. The ultimate epitome of this wild, boozing-on-the-cheap era, Ski Bar, was located on Second Ave between 94th and 95th. 1. 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. 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. If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. Some of the best bars on the Upper East Side cultivate the feeling of "Old New York.". In the mornings, Id walk along 125th Street to the store, which I opened in 82. I met Kim [Gordon] through a mutual friend. Were shooting one of the final scenes in Smithereens where the main character, Paul, talks to a hooker in his graffiti-covered van the film was very influenced by the graffiti art and punk scene of that time, particularly on the Lower East Side. The Roxy was on Fridays, when the party was Wheels of Steel, which initially started at Negril in the East Village. We always had coke, and many guests brought their own. Hear Christopher Walken talk about seeing movies during the day: One evening Kenny Scharf and his whole group which included Jean-Michel Basquiat, and certainly Keith Haring were hanging out at the artists studios at the Clocktower Gallery [in the former New York Life Insurance Company Building at Leonard Street and Broadway]. But it had started with a simple idea: What if a bar just let women drink for free? Rival crews had been dancing in the subway, and it turned into a fight over who had won. I would write longhand, sit down at the typewriter and type what I had, take those pages across the room to a different chair, sit down and work between the double spaces, do another draft. It wasnt a big deal. Silently. 16 Best Upper East Side Restaurants - Eater NY Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. I loved things coming around and you had to grab them, like getting your luggage off a luggage rack. 16 Timeless French Bistros and Brasseries in NYC - Eater NY Although it didn't hold up against Chili's, TGI Fridays, and Applebee's, there was a time when it was fairly ubiquitous throughout the states. I was hustling. It was around the corner from another tiny spot called Chandalier. hip-hop open mic nights and more than a few not-entirely-cool bars around the Upper East Side. Carnegie Deli Carnegie Deli. Money was secondary to being able to have this playground we could create. A lot of it was crack. Maxi Cohen, Area, 1985, Ladies Rooms Around The World, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio and Chambers Fine Art. We just called it The Bar, which morphed into Ze Bar, like with a fake French accent. And when my mother asked me where I was at, I just said, Oh, I was in the attic.. The gallery space was on the first floor; our offices were in the basement. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. James Brown and the Rev. 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. And Dynasty. Ive never gotten over Dynasty. And then people started dying. There was a theater called the Capri that I went to a lot. The city was different then. I had a loft downtown on Walker Street, one of the first buildings that went on loft strike. Or his family didnt come, and the landlord put his work in a dumpster. I remember being in someones loft it might have been [artist] Brian Hunts with a group of friends, watching the inauguration on a little black-and-white television. Wed spend hours getting our outfits together buying stuff at Canal Plastics Center, stapling photo booth pictures onto our jackets. 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]. And then we had Robert Rauschenberg, a rascal and a great man. (212) 861-2290. Ski Bar turned into a Taco Bell and Block moved to Telluride, Colo., where he and Singer opened a similar bar, Poachers Pub. In a letter about her trip, she wrote, When pages needed to be retyped, Jimmy did the retyping. 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. 'The 1970s club scene in New York was special': Nicky Siano You couldnt do nothing stupid or bad because your friends mother was your mother, too. Come be a part of it. The doors would open and things would get going by 10, and by midnight it would be raging. 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 whole thing finally fell into place in May of that year when I went on Tom Snyders show on NBC. Where To Drink On The Upper East Side . 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. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 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. There was an interest beyond becoming ladies who lunch. Everyone talks about the 1970s as being the birth of feminism, but for me, the 80s were really about feminism in practical use. We didnt know how the virus transmitted. We did a deep dive into the most avant-garde, atonal jazz. It was all very small town-y. The Upper East Side was the place to party in the early 1990s, recalls Jennifer Capobianco, a bartender from the era. Giuliani sending his goons around to raid things. 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. Carver came by, down from Syracuse on some publishing business. I invited him to dinner. Not only did Mr. Brown come on with me, but Muhammad Ali did, too. 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. Jean-Michel Basquiat wandered in at some point a neighbor with whom we had a nodding acquaintance. Or I would throw a party. 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. And by 1991 a good dozen of the neighborhoods bars were offering similar ladies night deals. The object was to keep stitching no matter what happened to the fabric. In 1981, I had just gotten back from six months on the road with James Brown. 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 had a bar and some makeshift situation where people would collect the door charge, $5 or $10 maybe. So wed be starving. The other was he wouldnt say anything, just [shrug] that meant it was a failure. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. [Kim] would work one day, and Id work the next. 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. Then there were the rumors that they were going to make a movie of the play, and naturally we all thought, Oh my god, were gonna be in a movie! But when the time came to make that movie, they only took Denzel, Larry, and Adolph. It was almost a surreal experience, because I had the feeling that this person is only vaguely here. The Best Historic Bars in Manhattan - PUNCH Everyone associates me with Jesse Jackson, but actually James Brown is the person I consider most like a mentor. Its a great show. We stared at each other for a moment. David McDermott and Peter McGough, artists. The loft was across the street from Castelli [Gallery]. When I crossed the bridge, I had my Saturday Night Fever moment the city was for the taking. I figure its costing me two bucks to put a girl in my bar for two hours, Reynolds claimed at the time. Still, he found ladies night ultimately quite profitable. Youd walk in there and all the actors would be sitting around, it was almost like a club, and youd see all these people: Danny Aiello, Warren Beatty. More likely than not, Id have to go downtown to the garment center to get some fabric or trimming. Caribbean Restaurants Restaurants. Bronwyn Thomas, she was like happy feet on her toes. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide - Menus and Reviews - MenuPix New York City Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. Hed come around maybe at 7 oclock. The elevated West Side Highway, meanwhile, was a place you could ski. 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). May 6, 2009. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. You could order a pizza anytime. I will never forget the day, because I didnt tell my mother and father that I was going to make a record. We liked to get there early, which the club promoters loved because wed get the party started. It was frequented by many celebrities, especially actors and authors. It was all exposed wood and brick, and it had a tiny fireplace, a futon, my books, a sink and a stove. I really had no business buying my loft on West Broadway in those years. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. My dormitory was at the corner of East 14th Street and Union Square. You can walk down the. Shan among its residents. The all-you-can-drink deals just dont happen these days, because the rents are so high, says Block. 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. The bathroom of Area nightclub, which was located on 157 Hudson Street and opened in 1983. All the music [in the atelier on 125th Street] came from the VCR. Owner Sean Fleming's band was among the many popular bands that would perform there. At night, if I was sitting around and wanted to amuse myself, Id walk down to Columbus and say hello. In school, I never fit in at all. I was doing commercials and Ntozake Shanges For Colored Girls [For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf] I went on tour with that show, as part of the first national company. Thats what I did. At that time, Chelsea was unexplored territory. A short-lived club in the 1980s East Village. This morning was no different than any other. He had two responses: Pretty good, was high, high praise. They put their names all over the mens room! The theater had been trashed. Sometimes it was just me and my sister walking up to the velvet rope or the bouncers, or it would be a group of us, and they would let us right in. Arent the both of us up early, I said. I started JAM in 1974 to show the work of African-American artists and other artists of color. Peter cant keep going that way, not in the city that its becoming now. It was very close to the Forward Building, which housed the important Yiddish newspaper. Hey, I said. Thats where I first met [the late street-style photographer] Bill Cunningham, I think. Top Gay Clubs & Bars in Upper East Side (New York City) - Tripadvisor 2. 1 place sorted by traveler favorites. I was breaking up with somebody a long, slow breakup. Youd get into costume, put makeup on, make sure your props were in the right place, talk to the stage manager. Hed just been released from prison, and his prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, had been published that week. Top 10 Bars & Clubs in Upper East Side (New York City) - Tripadvisor Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. This was every Friday. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. The landlord turned off the plumbing, so wed defecate into garbage bags and throw them out the window. Wed bring the coffee back to the lot and keep filming. My first loss was my partner, around the time Grace Kelly died in 1982. It was pitch-dark. 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. 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. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. The first club I did with Shawn Hausman, The Club With No Name, was on 25th Street. And thats why Block thinks youll never again see an era like the early 1990s on the Upper East Side. My habit must have appeared bizarre to my peers. In 1972, the New York State Human Rights Commission ruled that reduced-priced ladies days at Yankee Stadium discriminated against men. Drunk patrons would dance on the bar top, well before Coyote Ugly, which would open in January of 1993, had popularized such shenanigans. Sometimes you would cry, but most of the time you were just stunned, like it wasnt real. Michael Gira, the frontman of the band Swans, was on the [first] cover. I got my apartment through Stanley Strychacki, the founder of Club 57. Guerrilla art activities took place all over. And Silk Road. It was crazy. There are a lot of places to eat eggs and pancakes in the middle of the day on the Upper East Side. Other times, it literally meant all-you-could-drink, whatever you wanted to drink, on every single night of the week. LL wasnt used to this kind of attention. It was a very quiet audience. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. Our club-hop starts with the titular Limelight, Gatien's firstand still favoriteNew York club. But as soon as we walked in, nearly everyone stood and applauded. 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. No ID check, nothing. We decided to live together at her place, 84 Eldridge Street. During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. He wasnt exactly made of money, though he fished through a bucket of change every morning to buy his one meal of the day, a bagel but Block claims this was a time when it didnt cost a ton to open and run a bar in Manhattan. They had done mostly commercial work, and I had to explain to them that this is different than their commercial stuff to take a different kind of care. He has one book but he doesnt have the next two. Block opened it with a partner, Adam Singer, when he was just 22; he had worked at nearby Brother Jimmys for just two weeks before getting fired and deciding he could run a better bar. The manager, Dorian Mecir, had a heart of gold. The bakery, located in the front and open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., is great for an excellent croissant and coffee break. Bars & Music Mama's Bar. I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. The demographics of the tony Upper East Side were likewise going through some radical changes post-1987s Black Monday market crash. It had the best hamburgers and gin martinis. 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. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth performing at CBGB in 1983. He was the voice of every commercial on the radio or television at that time, and the richest among us. In retrospect, Bowie was ahead of the curve. I found them very original, underivative of the 60s or 70s they had a cleanness and a strength to them. 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. Mozart. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. It was raw: It had been a paper storage facility. Photograph courtesy of Charlie Ahearn, whose groundbreaking hip-hop feature film Wild Style (1983) featured Grandmaster Flash, Lee Quiones and Fab 5 Freddy, among others. . Jane Fonda had recently released her workout tapes, and it was the first opportunity a lot of women had to exercise. We could each get a full breakfast scrambled eggs, hash browns, whole wheat toast with an endless cup of coffee for $5 with tip. Their approach was direct and curt, no frills not self-consciously art-directed no frills, but Old Country, 19th-century no frills. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. In the lot there are three vehicles. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. In the '80s, 25 East 61st st. was home to B. Harris & Sons, jeweler to the stars! I could feel the presence of someone in the room. There were so many actors who lived with us because we had five floors. 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. High-end lounges and clubs were beginning to pop up downtown, especially around the flourishing Meatpacking District, and if plenty of ladies would continue to drink for free at places like Lot 61, Moomba, Spy Bar, and Marquee, it was the male customers who were usually paying for the overpriced bottles of Grey Goose and Patrn. It was a restaurant a modest place, like an Italian restaurant but really it was an actors hangout. Her upstairs neighbor was artist Dan Graham, who I knew through the artist-poet Vito Acconci. 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. Within a few days, he came to my apartment, which is how I wound up doing the arrangements for Lets Dance.. 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. An unpublished male nude Polaroid from 1981 by photographer Tom Bianchi. Or worse. Then you checked to see if there was anything in the theater papers for auditions. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. 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. 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. Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants of the Last Two Centuries It didnt have a name. I came here from Europe at age 22 in the 1960s already married and went to Park Avenue.) It was packed every night; it won the Pulitzer Prize that year. Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. 1. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (far right) in Spell #7, 1979. East Side Extra: Footloose: A virtual walk through the 1980s Upper East The restaurants where mobsters gathered, ate and got murdered You simply traveled to where things were happening. No one says they have to leave a tip. 1. Book with OpenTable. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. [The clothes] were really like one-plus-one, big squares with holes, basically. 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. Whatever Happened to the Singles Bar? - PUNCH Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. Hearing hip-hop on the street, minimalist new music, free jazz it all added to this fabric that was a landscape. 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. We recorded at a studio called Greene Street Recording Studio on Greene Street between Houston and Prince. 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. Cramped beer and shot joints with names like the Blue Moon, Czar Bar, and Richters were all vying for the attention of this influx of recently graduated young adults who wanted to go out, but had little money to do so. 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. The robust economy powered unfathomable riches into New York's in the late 90s: In SoHo restaurants, Madison Avenue boutiques, and East Side real-estate offices, no price is too high for the lords . It was in this desolate area between TriBeCa and Chinatown, and I knew every alley. I had to be at the theater by 7 oclock so I could start my process and get ready before half-hour call. 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. The straight clubs became very, very straight. 1567 2nd Ave, New York, NY So I call LL up and I let her speak to him for a few minutes. Thats pretty good.. Tuesday Trivia. Fleming's was a fun Irish bar on the upper east side in the 1980s & 1990s, up until it closed in 1994. Patsy Cline. (How many spinal taps can you give to someone under a refrigeration blanket whose fever wouldnt break?) Wendy Wild made magic mushroom punch. By the time midnight came around and I knew my parents were sleeping, I would sneak out the window down onto the porch. We finished that scene around 6 oclock in the morning. We were such fashion victims. Before that it had been pot. The sidewalks along St. Marks over to Astor Place were just as lively they were a sort of souk where you could buy back what the junkies had stolen from your apartment. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. I was part of the backpacker renaissance; you brought a backpack, so youd have a change of clothes. 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 was living with my parents in the Alfred E. Smith projects on the Lower East Sides waterfront. Upper East Side. Spanning the late 1980s through the late 1990s, . There was a studio near First Avenue in the 50s that used a dance technique that was a modified version of Pilates. 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