East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide. I would stay in the clubs, but I wouldnt dance. His name opened every door for me. It became a whole sh*t show, recalls Keith Block. Or I would throw a party. 1. The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. On the east side of Lexington, between 78th and 79th, was the best fishmonger Ive ever known: Rosedale. 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.. And then he asked me again: Dap, whats she doing? Even if it would attract the ladies, you couldnt give away an $8 IPA, a $15 Old Fashioned for free. 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. 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. There were very few places to work out back then. I just left the house on a Sunday, went to make the record. When he got sick, we were in a downward spiral for a year and a half. It was just shattering, but of course I had to pretend that this was the surprise that I had brought my board to see. A walk across the Williamsburg Bridge just to save a subway token. In retrospect, Bowie was ahead of the curve. Id walk to Cooper Union, where I was teaching. We had great people like Billy Nunn [Radio Raheem in Spike Lees Do the Right Thing], Skeeter [Ellis Williams, who was in The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway]. People would bring me their videos to pop in. In 1981, I had just gotten back from six months on the road with James Brown. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. I returned to New York in 81 after 10 years as an expat. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. We had a bar and some makeshift situation where people would collect the door charge, $5 or $10 maybe. 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 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. 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. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. 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. She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman. There were problems, of course; you serve young men and women as much alcohol as they can humanly consume and theres bound to be. 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. I slept when I was exhausted and awoke when I was refreshed. I held auditions for Fame, the TV show, on a Sunday at the New York School of Ballet because thats where I trained, and Mr. Thomas [ballet dancer Richard Scott Thomas] was happy to give me a studio. I was living on Eldridge Street between Hester and Grand. 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. The Penrose. We became sort of like brothers. It was on 35th and Fifth, and it was a place where the sushi came around on a conveyor belt. 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. Its basically the most conscious, relatable record. Talk to the actors as they drifted in about your day, talk about whos auditioning for what. Home; . He had two responses: Pretty good, was high, high praise. 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. 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! Boozy, drug-fueled parties that lasted until dawn. Plodding. I tried to focus on my art. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart E. 86th St., NYC [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="204 gal_title="E 86th St NYC Photos"] York Ave., NYC [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="205 gal_title="York Ave NYC Photos"] 1st. I never wore gold jewelry I didnt want to be a target. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. By 1984, Id put my kids in boarding school and left to live in Paris for five years. Flemings Reunion Party - MurphGuide: NYC Bar Guide 380 Lafayette St, New York . ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. I got my apartment through Stanley Strychacki, the founder of Club 57. All the music [in the atelier on 125th Street] came from the VCR. Best 30 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY with Reviews - Yellow Pages And the rest of us were kinda like, Oh man, what? One place I went to a lot was the St. Marks Baths. During the day, Id get my paints at Canal Hardware or Pearl Paint. I was living uptown really the classic uptown, which, because I was young, seemed a little wild to some people with my kids and my mother (also, at that time I was in love with a Brazilian man Id met in Bali). The restaurants where mobsters gathered, ate and got murdered But, most women slugging free beers at Brother Jimmys or complimentary Champagne at Jungle Jims or on-the-house Slalom Shots at Ski Bar arguably enjoyed these ladies night deals. (I might be the only person who never lived in a scary New York apartment. He has one book but he doesnt have the next two. 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. 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. And thats why Block thinks youll never again see an era like the early 1990s on the Upper East Side. It was the three of us. I committed the tapes to memory; I would do them over and over. I said, To hell with it! Jasmine Guy auditioned; she wasnt of age yet. If I threw a party, by midnight there was probably an especially good mix of people there. And Silk Road. Id get to the gallery late afternoon. But it did make me very, very moody there were a lot of underground clubs, and they wouldnt jump off till 1 a.m. It was in this desolate area between TriBeCa and Chinatown, and I knew every alley. It was packed every night; it won the Pulitzer Prize that year. If it was a Thursday, Id be rushing to get all my work done, because that was the night I went dancing. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. [Wild Style] opened in 1983, [at the Embassy 3] on 47th Street and Broadway. 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. The whole reason I was able to raise money for my causes was because of him. I was 16 when we started going to the Roxy, and my guest list was 100 people, and we were kind of like the ornaments on the tree. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. Remembering the Lost Gay Bars of NYC - PAPER After three, four months there, we decided to turn our loft into a nightclub. I knew running back up the stairs was a bad idea. 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 tended to feel particularly safe in the theaters. This was a moment in Manhattan history that had never really been seen before and hasnt been seen since. Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants of the Last Two Centuries And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word. There was a popular Puerto Rican dance club, Ochentas, and across the street from that was an Afro-Cuban spot, Club Broadway. When I was 15, I was in the clubs. 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. Courtesy of John Kelly, photograph by John Dugdale, John Kelly, performance and visual artist. Originally part of the Pillsbury Corp., the restaurant was founded in 1976. Gracie Terrace, New York, NY (212) 535-3140 (212) 535-3140. 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. Ski Bar turned into a Taco Bell and Block moved to Telluride, Colo., where he and Singer opened a similar bar, Poachers Pub. So wed be starving. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (far right) in Spell #7, 1979. 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. We used to have a TV with a VCR on at all times, playing MTV and the guys coming up. I started going to local clubs in Brooklyn at about 14 years old. Everything had my initials on it, or the name of somebody else on it; it was really crazy. 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. No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988 to 1999 - Medium That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. Al Sharpton (right) backstage at Madison Square Garden on June 11, 1974. 2. I worked in my office at home, an eight-room walk-up on the Upper West Side. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. Id go with Andy Warhol, or to dinner and then to Studio 54 afterwards. He would maybe drink half a glass of wine. 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. [1] 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. 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. Load more. Some of them were lying about their age and I knew it, but I didnt care. As told to Caroline Bankoff,Heather Corcoran,Nancy Hass and M.H. 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. We didnt bother to get any filming permits; the city was just coming out of its bankruptcy crisis, and I dont even know if the mayors film office was up and running. As soon as he opened [his own place] I started working there, alongside Sara Driver [the filmmaker and partner of Jim Jarmusch]. 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. 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. Many of the bars of this era were, in fact, themed, and sometimes cheesily so. I was 19. 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. 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. Top 10 Bars & Clubs in Upper East Side (New York City) - Tripadvisor One of his favorite pieces was the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms, sung by Dame Janet Baker. Some of them were open 24 hours a day, or they were closed maybe four hours a day for cleaning. And Im not a corporate client, so please give me a break. 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. So in April we held the Rites of Spring Fertility Bacchanal. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. How the Original TGI Fridays Helped Create the Singles Bar - InsideHook I couldnt work in color because I couldnt afford to make color prints. To me, the 1980s were incredibly liberating. At that time, Chelsea was unexplored territory. I lived above a topless club at White and Church. They were relatively small, rundown theaters; they tended to have a fair amount of drug use going on. I just wanted to be in New York. It was kind of a raffish crossroads. Bronwyn Thomas, she was like happy feet on her toes. On NYC's Upper East Side, Ladies' Night Ruled the '90s - VinePair The 10 Best Bars On The Upper East Side - Culture Trip 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. Lobster Newburg as it looks today. She was the ultimate ballerina, and she became that on Fame. I was excited that I would be able to introduce this new band of gypsies to the Hollywood scene. I would go to these obscure classes around the city that were mostly for dancers. Of course, it wasnt just rising rents, Mayor Giuliani, and smart phones that would kill ladies night on the Upper East Side. . Broadway 96 [Club Broadway] was more geared to black and Latino youth and that was definitely a wilder place. By the end of the relationship, I was living there. I unlocked the door. Separated from the commotion of the day, I would stretch my own canvases and start to paint in the dormitorys common room. Rich New York in the late 90s | Vanity Fair I had glasses, so I put these flip-up sunglass visors on them. In those days, there wasnt any downtown, so life was much easier. A guy in a black cocktail dress teetering precariously on the sill of an open window in a rear apartment (Room 410) of the Chelsea Hotel, screaming into the night. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 AIDS was a very strange situation; starting in 82 you knew very little about it, and then a few years later you suddenly realized it was the largest killer among your personal friends. 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. 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.