James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. I was preparing that summer to start my first semester at St. Johns University. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. I spent a decade in New York City like that. Thankfully, most seemed to only be of the public urination and inconsiderate noise variety, angering wealthy locals. It was a very quiet audience. I never had to show the clothes I was making to a buyer, because they always saw it in the clubs first: at Danceteria, at Roxy, at Kool Lady Blues Friday-night party. We said we were artists, and artists make art. We recorded at a studio called Greene Street Recording Studio on Greene Street between Houston and Prince. Madison Pub was an indispensable local dive. Open in Google Maps. I could feel the presence of someone in the room. (I might be the only person who never lived in a scary New York apartment. It changed everything. When me and Run would go to each others houses and rap together, we would go into the attic. The demographics of the tony Upper East Side were likewise going through some radical changes post-1987s Black Monday market crash. Open in Google Maps. The weekend that it happened, I got a call at 2 oclock in the morning from the owner of the theater. 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. Can you come back later? Thelonious Monk or Nina Simone or Gloria Lynne would stop by to visit them, so I grew up around these real bebop superstars. 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. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. It wasnt a big deal. 2. I met David Bowie in 1982 at the Continental on West 25th Street, which had just opened. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide. I started spending a third of my time there. 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. The ultimate epitome of this wild, boozing-on-the-cheap era, Ski Bar, was located on Second Ave between 94th and 95th. I had a loft downtown on Walker Street, one of the first buildings that went on loft strike. Team Infatuation August 19, 2022. It is demeaning to women to be treated this way, claimed Long Island man Richard Savino in 1984. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. Peter was so self-possessed and dignified, I never, ever thought of him as poor, even though he had no money. It was a restaurant a modest place, like an Italian restaurant but really it was an actors hangout. He slowed and turned around: Yeah, you too.. And the rest of us were kinda like, Oh man, what? There are a lot of places to eat eggs and pancakes in the middle of the day on the Upper East Side. The title was an intentional lure the work wasnt about Grace Kelly, but the painter William Schwedler. I was straight-edge, so if I snuck out, I was all right, because I wasnt hungover the next day like the other kids. I was living with my aunt and one of my cousins in a shotgun apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. No one could believe that this B-actor was about to occupy the White House. 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. He was the voice of every commercial on the radio or television at that time, and the richest among us. 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. Miller, Edited by Kate Guadagnino and Thessaly La Force. And Bowie had no idea that was my background. 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. It was on 35th and Fifth, and it was a place where the sushi came around on a conveyor belt. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs. I had gone to a place when I was a kid called Hamburger Express, and the hamburgers used to come around on a little choo-choo train. The bakery, located in the front and open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., is great for an excellent croissant and coffee break. And shoulder pads. 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. I was like, Oh cool, youre doing art too? Bands would put up fliers all over SoHo; there were wheat-paste fliers everywhere. 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. The. That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. Like Clubhouse on York Avenue, which intentionally offered a frat house-like atmosphere. Once he came in and told us that something his wife had written was in error and she replied, Jimmy, you wrote your book. Guide. The silence, as they say, was deafening. We didnt know how the virus transmitted. They were sort of an island unto themselves, and then you went across the park and you had the Pyramid Club and everything else was bars until you got to the Mudd Club way downtown. But truthfully, I hated it. Load more. My life was spiraling downward. It had no closets, so somebody put up a bar so I could hang clothes. The apartment, at 1060 Fifth Avenue, at 87th Street, was like a fantasy apartment huge, with a view of the reservoir. This kind of activity is highly socially ordered: You dont barge in on other people, thats all part of it. Wed go: Look, even if you dont know how to strip wood, were gonna show you: This gooey mess that you have to brush on the wood, wait till it bubbles, then you scrape it off. Most mornings, we would wake up and check the answering machine. There were no movie theaters, bookstores, galleries or photocopy shops, so my entrepreneurial idea, which failed, was to open one, Chelsea Copy. When I crossed the bridge, I had my Saturday Night Fever moment the city was for the taking. There was a popular Puerto Rican dance club, Ochentas, and across the street from that was an Afro-Cuban spot, Club Broadway. Darryl McDaniels, musician and member of Run-DMC. 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. Hed come around maybe at 7 oclock. 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. 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). And they said, Yeah, you can have that they werent even thinking about it. Block says it was the first non-nightclub bar on the Upper East Side to have a DJ booth, in this case a ski lift gondola repurposed from Killington Ski Resort. 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. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. While her friend Sara explained, We dont even like this place. I was still riding a little bit high off of the Diana Ross album Diana, which had come out in 1980. I would just sit there. Then later, it became about getting a gig at Danceteria, Mudd Club they were all little milestone achievements. This was a luxury ski town, not the Upper East Side, and he had to ultimately tone things down. It was all very small town-y. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. Wed been working on the film for a year in dribs and drabs. But I didnt feel super cool or anything. It was a walk-up. She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman. My habit must have appeared bizarre to my peers. You could be a young person in Manhattan back then, Block recalls. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. [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. The first club I did with Shawn Hausman, The Club With No Name, was on 25th Street. Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over. Afternoon workouts. Certainly at night, few people were there, and few were there on the weekends. There is no limit to it. 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. I doubt if many artists experienced it that way. So wed be starving. I felt like I was having the best entertainment of my life, because people were going up and down the aisle, going, Loose joints People were talking throughout the whole movie going, Yo, shut up! It was just like the kung fu movies they were the same audience. If they didnt give us any food, wed go off to the next person. I started going to local clubs in Brooklyn at about 14 years old. Others would drop by out of curiosity and wonder what was on my mind. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. The Roxy was on Fridays, when the party was Wheels of Steel, which initially started at Negril in the East Village. They called it rocking early breaking, essentially. Her upstairs neighbor was artist Dan Graham, who I knew through the artist-poet Vito Acconci. When youre at a memorial mourning the passing of a friend or a lover and theyre really young, where do you put that stuff? There was a lot of crossover, because ours would go to 6 or 7 in the morning some god-awful time. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. A few blocks away was the Ninth Street Bakery. I didnt want to fit in. Taylor Mead had a running tab at multiple bars. I would walk around the neighborhood, go down to 42nd Street and do a lot of movie cruising. Like Outback, an Australian-themed bar on 93rd and Third Avenue, which hosted Men Are Pigs nights three times a week. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. People would bring me their videos to pop in. And Im not a corporate client, so please give me a break. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. 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. After shows at La MaMa, we would go to the gay bar on East Fourth Street and Second Ave. A chance encounter with David Bowie at a downtown nightclub. 1567 2nd Ave, New York, NY Wendy Wild made magic mushroom punch. One night I saw Jack Smith do a reading, and I can still remember this line, which kind of sums up that era: The cockroach caravan crosses the rented desert of exotic landlordism.. Harrys Hula Hut had bamboo walls, palm trees, and Nerf basketball available, plus all-you-can-drink beer. 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. 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. They had gotten the idea that it was a very good headquarters. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. The deal with him was he never had to come and he never had to give any money, but he would give his name and a recommendation. I remember thinking, How long can this go on? 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. 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. Bars & Clubs Gay Bars. 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. Ski Bar would issue custom-made lift tickets good for eight drinks apiece. 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. Hey, lets go get drunk at a bar.. 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. Home; . I started JAM in 1974 to show the work of African-American artists and other artists of color. I would drink quite a lot of wine. Foursquare. 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. Boozy, drug-fueled parties that lasted until dawn. They were supposed to be 17 or 18. A short-lived club in the 1980s East Village. When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. Then we had Woody Allen. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. 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. 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. We used to have a TV with a VCR on at all times, playing MTV and the guys coming up. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs.. I didnt want anything to be more important than the writing. We considered the food too depressingly awful. I had been starring on Broadway in West Side Story, and I had done the movie Ragtime, which was also coming out, but dance has always been my heartbeat. They were on 51st or 52nd between Fifth and Madison. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. LL wasnt used to this kind of attention. As soon as he opened [his own place] I started working there, alongside Sara Driver [the filmmaker and partner of Jim Jarmusch]. The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. I made a deal for him to do a cheapo job by trading a Brice Marden plus $10,000. I got up at anywhere from 3 to 5 in the morning and worked as long as I could. 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. Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. Plodding. Tuesday Trivia. Money was secondary to being able to have this playground we could create. 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. Some of them were open 24 hours a day, or they were closed maybe four hours a day for cleaning. Delmonico's, 21-23 William Street (1831-1923, intermittently thereafter) In 1831 Swiss brothers John and Peter Delmonico founded the city's first . There were problems, of course; you serve young men and women as much alcohol as they can humanly consume and theres bound to be. I was kind of tomboyish, but also pretty poor. Thurston Moore would take me to see hardcore groups like Black Flag. 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. Up the street from my apartment was 8 B.C., a club run by two friends of mine. [1] At that time, Chelsea was unexplored territory. There was a theater called the Capri that I went to a lot. ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. . I didnt smoke or drink, and when you dont do those things, you need an outlet. I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku. He had two responses: Pretty good, was high, high praise. Everything was different for me. There were all these conspiracy theories. I was always worried about getting a dirty shirt or chipping a tooth., Ski Bars biggest attraction was the Slalom Shot, a four-foot-long slab of ice with a twisting trail cut into it. For one assignment, the paper sent me to Washington Heights to photograph what it said was a riot. But at midnight, yes, I was often out. I had no reason to stay awake or to fall asleep. For a while I lived on the Upper West Side, on the parlor floor of a brownstone on 71st Street between Amsterdam and Columbus. And Silk Road. CBGB was just up the street, and I performed there with my band or as a solo poet many times. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. 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.. The area was really no-mans land. Upper East Side. Two weeks later we were begging to let people come watch us rehearse. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. 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. Or worse. Veselka was the go-to place to eat and get cake the lemon bundt or the mohn. Between 1981 and 1983 I was commuting between New York and a rented apartment in Rome, researching a book about my Italian ancestry that would be called Unto the Sons. My wife, Nan, would visit me in Italy as often as she could, but always briefly. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. Do you even think about what it was like in Brooklyn? The writer Gay Taleses social calendar for October 1983. Arent the both of us up early, I said. We didnt pay rent, but it was meant to be $300 a month. The elevated West Side Highway, meanwhile, was a place you could ski. The painter David Salle in his Manhattan studio, 1983. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Or his family didnt come, and the landlord put his work in a dumpster. We also created a percussive orchestra that was all pots and pans and a lot of racket, and that was the debut of the band Pulsallama. Peter cant keep going that way, not in the city that its becoming now. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. I lived above a topless club at White and Church. 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. 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. Points of interest include Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, Hunter College, Gracie Mansion and Carl Schurz Park. There's always a striking contrast to what it was and what it is now. James Brown and the Rev. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, a boy like me didnt know there was a place for him in the world like that. Even if it would attract the ladies, you couldnt give away an $8 IPA, a $15 Old Fashioned for free. The bathroom of Area nightclub, which was located on 157 Hudson Street and opened in 1983. Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. I chose a very mournful, elegiac, orchestral piece of music, and I created a gray-scale portrait of three heads: Bills head in the middle, and my two profile heads coming out of either side of his. 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. I remember this night in particular because of another guest, Jack Henry Abbott, who was living in a halfway house a couple blocks away. In school, I never fit in at all. Ave., NYC And the city wasnt so much about money. But, pre-AIDS anyway, it was also more diverse. Guerrilla art activities took place all over. The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. We could each get a full breakfast scrambled eggs, hash browns, whole wheat toast with an endless cup of coffee for $5 with tip. Hearing hip-hop on the street, minimalist new music, free jazz it all added to this fabric that was a landscape. I had just moved the gallery to Franklin Street in TriBeCa from West 57th Street. 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. We were outside the Mine Shaft [a raunchy 1970s/'80s gay sex club on Washington Street]. As told to Kate Guadagnino,Elizabeth Gumport,Merrell Hambleton and Erin Sheehy. 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. And when she gave me the phone back, she went into [hysterics]. The conversation was very interesting. Al Sharpton (right) backstage at Madison Square Garden on June 11, 1974. But I had a new Mercedes-Benz, and Id leave it in front of the store when I was in Harlem so people knew they could reach 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 was breaking up with somebody a long, slow breakup. 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. 380 Lafayette St, New York . Michael Gira, the frontman of the band Swans, was on the [first] cover. At night, if I was sitting around and wanted to amuse myself, Id walk down to Columbus and say hello. In 1972, the New York State Human Rights Commission ruled that reduced-priced ladies days at Yankee Stadium discriminated against men. It was around the corner from another tiny spot called Chandalier. I would often wake up in the middle of the night as the city slept. 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).

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