And yet, plenty of ladies were also against them. I couldnt work in color because I couldnt afford to make color prints. If we werent in a group, I would walk over the bridge, because money was scarce and I wanted to have a token to go back out the next night. It was really like a combination of living theater and installation art, very communal. Kamalis clothes cleverly combined athletic wear and fabric with high-fashion cuts and silhouettes, perfectly embodying the era. Beware salivating yuppie swells there for Ladies Night, the magazine wrote (fondly) of Mannys Car Wash, a Chicago-style blues club on East 87th Street. Linda Goode Bryant, founder of Just Above Midtown Gallery. To me, the 1980s were incredibly liberating. Four days a week, I was studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute down on 15th Street. I tended to feel particularly safe in the theaters. The loft was across the street from Castelli [Gallery]. 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. And then off wed go! (How many spinal taps can you give to someone under a refrigeration blanket whose fever wouldnt break?) I would walk around the neighborhood, go down to 42nd Street and do a lot of movie cruising. It was the only Xerox machine below 14th Street, so every artist used it. Whats she doing now? She was like [hyperventilating]. Nan Goldin was a block up, and William Burroughs lived downstairs. But those deals enticed 22-year-olds to get out of their apartments. 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. The first club I did with Shawn Hausman, The Club With No Name, was on 25th Street. 1. 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. I would just sit there. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . Mozart. 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. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. We went from our home in the East 60s, with Jimmy Carter and me in one car (driven by a member of the Secret Service) and Nan and Rosalynn in another. 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. Thats pretty good.. 25 East 61st street is the rear extension of 673 Madison Avenue, an Italianate brownstone built in 1871 by architect John G. Prague as part of a project for the developer John McCool which included a row of 5 brownstones on Madison Avenue, and 17 houses on 61st street. The Penrose. Sometimes it could just be too blasting. I slept when I was exhausted and awoke when I was refreshed. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. Hes a Leo all the Leos I know love history. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. The Upper East Side was the place to party in the early 1990s, recalls Jennifer Capobianco, a bartender from the era. People thought I was a little crazy. 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 did not know what my passions or imagination would lead to. I would stay in the clubs, but I wouldnt dance. And thats why Block thinks youll never again see an era like the early 1990s on the Upper East Side. People would drop change in your hands, turn their heads when you tried to kiss them. That is something I have never done with anyone else. The original Murray Hill restaurant expanded to this location in 2011, and in 2017 added an upstairs cocktail bar to entice a younger crowd. That was the start of the end of this era, says Block. The apartment had this old refrigerator that didnt have room for much, so in the winter Id keep everything out on the fire escape. He was the voice of every commercial on the radio or television at that time, and the richest among us. 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. Miller, Edited by Kate Guadagnino and Thessaly La Force. That was Sucker M.C.s., I was still living at home. You werent afraid of getting it, you were wondering when are the symptoms going to show up. It must have been late spring of 1981. And why I got out.. He recognized me and stopped to congratulate me on the film. I was preparing that summer to start my first semester at St. Johns University. The manager, Dorian Mecir, had a heart of gold. You couldnt get people to go to a club before midnight. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide. Arent the both of us up early, I said. I remember thinking, How long can this go on? They were spinning on their heads, the cops said. Hip-hop artist Prince Whipper Whip of the hip-hop group Grand Wizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five at the Sparkle in the Bronx. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. One of my responses was to just keep working. And we had Tina Chow, who had such unearthly beauty she would come into a room and just drift. I really loved those people the heroism of their everyday lives was palpable, and that was woven into the tapestry of the East Village. 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. But something wasnt right. Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. My parents were heroin addicts, beatniks. And if we didnt have the money, wed go to the matre d it was absurd because this restaurant was in the middle of the slums and say, Can we pay you tomorrow? and theyd let us. 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. 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. Somebody might have called during the night to say they might have job opportunities, so you always checked your machine. 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. Gracie Terrace, New York, NY (212) 535-3140 (212) 535-3140. Being at the Carlyle was amazing, but I was still an undergrad at Yale at the time, and the whole thing felt unreal, as though I was living two lives. We always had coke, and many guests brought their own. And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word. Still, he found ladies night ultimately quite profitable. My habit must have appeared bizarre to my peers. Soon there was an all-out war being waged for putting butts on barstools, and in these days before the internet, the bars would advertise their increasingly outrageous specials in the Village Voice and free local fliers sloppily stacked at the entrance to ATM banks, while hoping for write-ups in New York Magazines weekly goings-on section. I was at the same place I am now, 222 Bowery. It was all very small town-y. 1567 2nd Ave, New York, NY You couldnt do nothing stupid or bad because your friends mother was your mother, too. Pierre Francillon and Richard Alvarez, both artists and friends of fashion designer Andre Walker, in 1983 at the Middle Collegiate Church, where Walker held a fashion show. 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. 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. I had half of the third floor, which was sort of the high-ceilinged fancy room, though it had long, long since stopped being fancy. [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. We had a studio on Bleecker near Seventh Avenue. 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. I went over and started chatting with him, and we became completely engrossed in this conversation about jazz. I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. I was living with my parents in the Alfred E. Smith projects on the Lower East Sides waterfront. 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. 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. David McDermott and Peter McGough, artists. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. 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. Theyd say, Yo, Dap, listen to that. All the hip-hop artists came [to the atelier]; there wasnt any other place that catered to rappers. 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. The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. 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. Everybody was happy for him and saying, O.K., its possible, were in the right place, were doing the right thing., I remember the first time we went in and read A Soldiers Play out loud, we were all just staring at each other going, Oh my god, this is amazing. Two days later, Adolph came in, threw his script down, and said, Im ready! And we all looked at him like, Okay, fine! So we all threw our scripts down, too, because everybody had learned the play in like two days. Like Outback, an Australian-themed bar on 93rd and Third Avenue, which hosted Men Are Pigs nights three times a week. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. 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. I made sure there was a hot tub in there. Sometimes wed have lunch. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. No one says they have to leave a tip. There were all these conspiracy theories. There is a two drink minimum. My life was spiraling downward. 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 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. Come be a part of it. The doors would open and things would get going by 10, and by midnight it would be raging. 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. 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]. Pizza with Duck Sausage wins quick stardom. One of his favorite pieces was the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms, sung by Dame Janet Baker. Foursquare. When I was working at Newsweek, I often got out of work at two or three in the morning, and I would walk home up Madison Avenue often in stilettos from 49th to 74th and Lex. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. Its a great show. We stared at each other for a moment. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. To me it was all an art project. Cities . I was kind of tomboyish, but also pretty poor. Boozy, drug-fueled parties that lasted until dawn. (What a loft was, I wasnt entirely sure.) 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. He needed someone he trusted. A few blocks away was the Ninth Street Bakery. By 1981, I was no longer the manager at [the East Village performance space] Club 57, but I still helped out and performed there a lot. Two weeks later we were begging to let people come watch us rehearse. 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. I could wake up in the middle of the night and hear his typewriter going. Mornings spent alone, writing in a studio in the West Village. Like the Womens Christian Temperance Union. I lived above a topless club at White and Church. As told to Kate Guadagnino,Elizabeth Gumport,Merrell Hambleton and Erin Sheehy. By ajordahl123. It was almost a surreal experience, because I had the feeling that this person is only vaguely here. Up the street from my apartment was 8 B.C., a club run by two friends of mine. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs.. . I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. The Upper West Side has always been a great place to buy food, with terrific places for fish and vegetables. Sometimes that meant dispensing a free keg or two of Bud Light until it ran out during a traditional off-night, like Tuesday or Wednesday. They put their names all over the mens room! The theater had been trashed. When the sun came up, we would get bagels or pretzels and get back on the train. I invited him to dinner. 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. I knew running back up the stairs was a bad idea. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. Someone broke the front glass and stole the poster. Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. We made an altar to a llama, and everyone dressed in kind of Greco-Roman outfits I wore a toga with sequins. (And Ski Bar even opened a Ski Bar 2 pop-up at Hunter Mountain during the winter. I went from area to area of the performance space, onstage and offstage. They were on 51st or 52nd between Fifth and Madison. 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! When I was 15, I was in the clubs. 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. When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. James Brown and the Rev. By the end of the relationship, I was living there. Every parent, every grown-up was your mother and father. Silently. I started going to local clubs in Brooklyn at about 14 years old. That completely opened my mind. 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 didnt smoke or drink, and when you dont do those things, you need an outlet. The Roxy was on Fridays, when the party was Wheels of Steel, which initially started at Negril in the East Village. 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. Then it was getting a good time slot at CBGB, so you werent on last and werent on first. 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. 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. There was a lot of crossover, because ours would go to 6 or 7 in the morning some god-awful time. No one could believe that this B-actor was about to occupy the White House. Thats why I started wearing silver hoop earrings. In the lot there are three vehicles. It was before he was onstage and all that; he was just starting out. They were more McDermotts friends, because my friends were working in fashion and they were like, Oh, get a job, bitch! They could be stimulated by the heterosexual pornography that was on the screen. Rival crews had been dancing in the subway, and it turned into a fight over who had won. 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. Even if it would attract the ladies, you couldnt give away an $8 IPA, a $15 Old Fashioned for free. In the Early 80s, It Made All the Difference, Oral History: Remembering New Yorks Fiorucci Store, New Yorkers and Their 80s Routines Block by Block, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/t-magazine/80s-nyc-map.html, Ann Magnuson, actress and performance artist. 380 Lafayette St, New York . Sometimes, after the clubs got out, people would see a kung fu flick on 42nd Street, which we called the Deuce Were going to the Deuce, whats up? 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. 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. People would bring me their videos to pop in. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. Points of interest include Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, Hunter College, Gracie Mansion and Carl Schurz Park. Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. He had always been like a surrogate father to me, and when his manager quit midway through the tour, he called me to come and just make sure people werent ripping him off at the venues every night. It was hard. Peter was straight out of Damon Runyon and Weegee. If it was a Thursday, Id be rushing to get all my work done, because that was the night I went dancing.
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