When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. LL wasnt used to this kind of attention. Sometimes wed have lunch. What if they just let all women drink for free? But those deals enticed 22-year-olds to get out of their apartments. Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. Its a great show. We stared at each other for a moment. Wed bring the coffee back to the lot and keep filming. I didnt want to fit in. The object was to keep stitching no matter what happened to the fabric. I was just out of high school. 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. Elsewhere, so he was going back and forth between doing the TV show and the play. Their approach was direct and curt, no frills not self-consciously art-directed no frills, but Old Country, 19th-century no frills. Amura ($$) Japanese Menu Available. I didnt want anything to be more important than the writing. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. You could feel it turning, the tackiness beginning to creep in. I really loved those people the heroism of their everyday lives was palpable, and that was woven into the tapestry of the East Village. My contemporary, the writer Ed [Edmund] White, had the apartment next door. 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). I had a loft downtown on Walker Street, one of the first buildings that went on loft strike. 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. 1. Id go with Andy Warhol, or to dinner and then to Studio 54 afterwards. As told to Caroline Bankoff,Heather Corcoran,Nancy Hass and M.H. In the 1980s, the restaurant began to decline, as it switched up menu items in favor of more chicken and fish. The front window was a queer Mount Rushmore, with the heavyweights looking out onto the street: Rene Ricard, Bill Rice, Peter Hujar, Paul Thek. I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku. It seems we could start later than this. I was living with my aunt and one of my cousins in a shotgun apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. 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.. I would get some bus money, some pizza money, some soda money and some money to be able to get into a jam. Plodding. Some of them were lying about their age and I knew it, but I didnt care. The demographics of the tony Upper East Side were likewise going through some radical changes post-1987s Black Monday market crash. I would take my work from that lab it was already mounted with dimensions like 48 by 72 inches, 40 by 60 inches carry it to the E train, down the stairs, then get off at Canal and carry it down to Leonard and up my four flights of stairs. 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. Did you come to see the show? But it had started with a simple idea: What if a bar just let women drink for free? I remember I was drawn to the ad for the loft because it was in a place that sounded like trifecta; my father had taken me to the track, so that seemed comforting and familiar. They were more McDermotts friends, because my friends were working in fashion and they were like, Oh, get a job, bitch! It would be drag queens with punk kids, musicians and artists everyone. And we had Tina Chow, who had such unearthly beauty she would come into a room and just drift. 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. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, a boy like me didnt know there was a place for him in the world like that. Nobody was talking to him, probably because they didnt recognize him. There are a lot of places to eat eggs and pancakes in the middle of the day on the Upper East Side. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 Every parent, every grown-up was your mother and father. If you just wanted to grab a sandwich, youd go to Burger Heaven. People thought I was a little crazy. It was all happening at the same time; there was a lot of yin and yang. In 1972, the New York State Human Rights Commission ruled that reduced-priced ladies days at Yankee Stadium discriminated against men. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. Book with OpenTable. [Kim] would work one day, and Id work the next. All the music [in the atelier on 125th Street] came from the VCR. Not all these bars were necessarily beloved. When he got sick, we were in a downward spiral for a year and a half. 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. Pretty girls in pajamas peeked in on my occupied space. Thurston Moore would take me to see hardcore groups like Black Flag. The other was he wouldnt say anything, just [shrug] that meant it was a failure. Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. Im a child of the Midwestern upper-middle class. It was before he was onstage and all that; he was just starting out. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. But, pre-AIDS anyway, it was also more diverse. 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. There was a popular Puerto Rican dance club, Ochentas, and across the street from that was an Afro-Cuban spot, Club Broadway. I remember thinking, How long can this go on? (Never let on to a dog youre afraid of him, my Uncle Charlie would say.) But at midnight, yes, I was often out. Hearing hip-hop on the street, minimalist new music, free jazz it all added to this fabric that was a landscape. See more ideas about memories, restaurant, howard johnson's. Nine oclock was the earliest you could go. My parents were heroin addicts, beatniks. Then you checked to see if there was anything in the theater papers for auditions. It was in this desolate area between TriBeCa and Chinatown, and I knew every alley. 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. You were constantly on the phone: Did you see this in the paper? 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. Can you come back later? Hear Eric Goode remember when he found out about AIDS: I enrolled at the Parsons School of Design in 1982. Ann Magnuson, actress and performance artist. By ajordahl123. I lived at the Olympic Tower, and Halston was downstairs. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. One day, I was walking uptown to an appointment just before noon, and coming toward me was Robert Duvall. Thats why I started wearing silver hoop earrings. Then later, it became about getting a gig at Danceteria, Mudd Club they were all little milestone achievements. Other times, it literally meant all-you-could-drink, whatever you wanted to drink, on every single night of the week. 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. We decided to live together at her place, 84 Eldridge Street. She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman. Richard Gere was a fixture, as well as Diana Ross and Princess Caroline. 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. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. Linda Goode Bryant, founder of Just Above Midtown Gallery. I got a loft at Clinton and Stanton, which was far from fashionable. 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. Thurston was a scholar. It was established, owned by and named after Elaine Kaufman, who was indelibly associated with the restaurant; Elaine's shut down several months after Kaufman died. It was on 35th and Fifth, and it was a place where the sushi came around on a conveyor belt. You couldnt get people to go to a club before midnight. The quiet and space afforded clarity. I had no student loans and the housing was still affordable. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. 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. It wasnt a rich peoples restaurant; it was a restaurant for people Elaine happened to like. People would bring me their videos to pop in. There was a studio near First Avenue in the 50s that used a dance technique that was a modified version of Pilates. 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). I worked in my office at home, an eight-room walk-up on the Upper West Side. Wed spend hours getting our outfits together buying stuff at Canal Plastics Center, stapling photo booth pictures onto our jackets. 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. Lines around the block. Hes a Leo all the Leos I know love history. I went over and started chatting with him, and we became completely engrossed in this conversation about jazz. 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. So I call LL up and I let her speak to him for a few minutes. Belgian, Crepes, Wine Bar, Coffee Shop Menu Available. That is something I have never done with anyone else. But I didnt feel super cool or anything. 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. Maybe he could do your book under that contract. So I went to the Factory and stood at a tall table with Andy and Bob, and Andy went through the dummy. Veselka was the go-to place to eat and get cake the lemon bundt or the mohn. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. Wed go to bed among the broken glass, booze and old cigarettes. My first photo lab was called Hy Photo. Indeed, many of his customers would come from Normandie Court a block away. When youre at a memorial mourning the passing of a friend or a lover and theyre really young, where do you put that stuff? Thelonious Monk or Nina Simone or Gloria Lynne would stop by to visit them, so I grew up around these real bebop superstars. The artist David McDermott shot by his then-partner, the artist Peter McGough, East Village, 1983. Best Upper East Side bars in NYC. Upper East Side. That completely opened my mind. I was part of the backpacker renaissance; you brought a backpack, so youd have a change of clothes. A lot of the alternative spaces Franklin Furnace, A-Space had music, too. 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. The conversation was very interesting. People divided themselves into camps based on which one they favored I liked Odessa better, but Id go to both. 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. It had the best hamburgers and gin martinis. I probably dont need to tell you that bar owners like Reynolds werent letting women (or ladies) drink for free out of the goodness of their hearts. He needed someone he trusted. Sorry.. We would sit at this coffee table and listen to records for an hour. Gay and straight people would party together. Two weeks later we were begging to let people come watch us rehearse. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. Drunk patrons would dance on the bar top, well before Coyote Ugly, which would open in January of 1993, had popularized such shenanigans. 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 rain came through, so the clothes were all messed up by brown streaks. No one could believe that this B-actor was about to occupy the White House. $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. We said we were artists, and artists make art. Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. 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. 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. It wasnt actually the best place to hear or see bands, but it was always exciting. 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. 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. One of my responses was to just keep working. We were both rather exotic in each others eyes. 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. Before that it had been pot. It was all very small town-y. I figure its costing me two bucks to put a girl in my bar for two hours, Reynolds claimed at the time. Carver came by, down from Syracuse on some publishing business. Anyone can read what you share. 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. One (Instagram) showing somebody stumbling out of your bar and youre out of business, he believes. 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. draw in the skirts that bring in the suits. They put their names all over the mens room! The theater had been trashed. 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. They could be stimulated by the heterosexual pornography that was on the screen. I was 19. 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. The pictures on the wall were all from the Fifties, and a group of us girls would go and get our hair done in crazy bouffants. Al Sharpton (right) backstage at Madison Square Garden on June 11, 1974. I invited him to dinner. More likely than not, Id have to go downtown to the garment center to get some fabric or trimming. [The clothes] were really like one-plus-one, big squares with holes, basically. Owner Sean Fleming's band was among the many popular bands that would perform there. The writer Gay Taleses social calendar for October 1983. 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 feel the presence of someone in the room. (What a loft was, I wasnt entirely sure.) Others would drop by out of curiosity and wonder what was on my mind. Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. Guerrilla art activities took place all over. On the east side of Lexington, between 78th and 79th, was the best fishmonger Ive ever known: Rosedale. For a while I lived on the Upper West Side, on the parlor floor of a brownstone on 71st Street between Amsterdam and Columbus. That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. Many of these bars tried to offer a sort of bridge from cheap college boozing to costly, real-world imbibing. The artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham at their wedding, 1983. Could you just call LL so she could just say hi? Everybody knew I knew all the rappers and everything. Adolph would regale us with stories. Maxi Cohen, Area, 1985, Ladies Rooms Around The World, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio and Chambers Fine Art. The weekend that it happened, I got a call at 2 oclock in the morning from the owner of the theater. Do you even think about what it was like in Brooklyn? 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. I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. 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. Some of the best bars on the Upper East Side cultivate the feeling of "Old New York.". Sometimes you would want to go to a Police concert, but you wouldnt want to tell your friends, because they would be, like, Thats so commercial and gross. When it was the Dead Kennedys, Ari Up, The Slits, Public Image Ltd, you were all in full agreement. (I might be the only person who never lived in a scary New York apartment. It was raw: It had been a paper storage facility. The Club Kids, led by impresario Michael Alig, turned places like the Limelight into backdrops of drug- and techno-induced drama, while live music dens like the Village Gate presented stages to. We had a prom, a debutante ball, a ladies wrestling night. When Flashdance came out in 1983, Paramount put me up in the Carlyle Hotel to do promotion. I doubt if many artists experienced it that way. Someone broke the front glass and stole the poster. 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 blacked out the skylights and windows and painted most of it gold very Warholian. 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. I was eating very healthfully, which wasnt easy then, seeking out the few macrobiotic restaurants there were. No ID check, nothing. Id go for two, three, four hours and have a fairly good time. It was almost a surreal experience, because I had the feeling that this person is only vaguely here. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. The Mudd Club was right around the corner, going full throttle. This was every Friday. 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 point of ladies night is to get women into bars and get them drunk so that men can score.. I was still riding a little bit high off of the Diana Ross album Diana, which had come out in 1980. There were very few places to work out back then. I was at the same place I am now, 222 Bowery. 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. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. Our first goal [as Sonic Youth] was getting a gig at CBGB. 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. [1] [Wild Style] opened in 1983, [at the Embassy 3] on 47th Street and Broadway. 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. I loved things coming around and you had to grab them, like getting your luggage off a luggage rack. She had made a video of herself dancing to LL Cool J. Like Outback, an Australian-themed bar on 93rd and Third Avenue, which hosted Men Are Pigs nights three times a week. 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. They called it rocking early breaking, essentially. My first loss was my partner, around the time Grace Kelly died in 1982. Patsy Cline. 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. 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. David McDermott and Peter McGough, artists. Arent the both of us up early, I said. My days changed depending on what show I was putting on, what sort of rehearsal schedule I had and how late Id been up the night before, though I had a rule for myself: Always be back before sunrise. 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. My favorite was the Mine Shaft, a very performative kind of sex bar on Little West 12th Street that had a kind of punk, anti-disco vibe. I was very attached to the Madison Avenue Bookshop, because of my Harvard connection to its owner, Arthur Lehman Loeb, and its excellence. Two editors at Simon & Schuster thought it was terrific, but they said, You have to produce this yourself, and we can possibly get you a distribution deal. People like Jean-Michel [Basquiat] would come in, who was somebody you knew from Tier 3 and the Mudd Club; someone your age. You simply traveled to where things were happening. I had glasses, so I put these flip-up sunglass visors on them. We made an altar to a llama, and everyone dressed in kind of Greco-Roman outfits I wore a toga with sequins. Basically, we walk in, get our free drinks, give the scum dirty looks and walk out, a college student named Rebecca said of the Far Out Lounge. 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. 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. I made a deal for him to do a cheapo job by trading a Brice Marden plus $10,000. It was pitch-dark. They are not obliged to talk to anyone. Even if it would attract the ladies, you couldnt give away an $8 IPA, a $15 Old Fashioned for free. The first single we ever made [was in 1983]: Sucker M.C.s was the B-side of Its Like That. Its Like That was a record that was talking about all of the things that was going on in communities, society and also the world. Since no ones making them, they dont.. You could say I was not a considerate neighbor. By the time midnight came around and I knew my parents were sleeping, I would sneak out the window down onto the porch. 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. East 80s, NY Restaurant Guide. Sam [Samuel L. Jackson] and I bought a brownstone in Harlem around 1981. Courtesy of John Kelly, photograph by John Dugdale, John Kelly, performance and visual artist. 2. Not only did we dress in wigs and dresses from 14th Street, but we took on personas to match. And yet, plenty of ladies were also against them. I didnt know what I was doing. Id make sure everything was in place and see what the new orders were. 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. It made me immobile. 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. And the city wasnt so much about money. Id work for 12 hours straight, prepping for my show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. Hey, lets go get drunk at a bar.. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. 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. We had a studio on Bleecker near Seventh Avenue. I also had a tiny place on 12th Street between Greenwich and Washington the top back room of a falling-apart townhouse that the owner was renting out. Spankys, a sports bar on 75th Street, attracted the young Republican crowd that had begun to invade the area. 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. I was sneaking out. 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. And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. Police barricades up and down Second Avenue. 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. Then, I didnt have the kind of formal board that one would today. The Penrose. There were so many actors who lived with us because we had five floors. And then we had Robert Rauschenberg, a rascal and a great man. 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. Alanna Heiss, founder of PS1 and the Clocktower Gallery. Jane Fonda had recently released her workout tapes, and it was the first opportunity a lot of women had to exercise. It was 1990 on Manhattans Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood was in the throes of a countrywide recession and unemployment was on the rise.

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