Thats what I did. We were shooting the pilot, and I was trying to find the best dancers I could. Blocks bar was ski-themed, natch, with a Ski-Doo hanging from the ceiling, bartenders wearing neon-colored ski pants in the winter and bathrooms labeled Unload Here (mens) and Grooming in Process (womens). I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. Wed go to bed among the broken glass, booze and old cigarettes. Sam was doing Ragtime, and then he did A Soldiers Play on Broadway. 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. 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. The painter David Salle in his Manhattan studio, 1983. He was the voice of every commercial on the radio or television at that time, and the richest among us. I would get back home [from school] at a decent hour, four in the afternoon. The Upper East Side was the place to party in the early 1990s, recalls Jennifer Capobianco, a bartender from the era. Those were days when we ate meat just blissfully. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. You couldnt do nothing stupid or bad because your friends mother was your mother, too. I really loved those people the heroism of their everyday lives was palpable, and that was woven into the tapestry of the East Village. Then you would call at 10, or 10 after, to check in with your agent to see if there was anything going that day. At 11 to 12, Id had a nine-hour day. It didnt have a name. Despite the lack of a cabaret license, DJ Mike would spin soon-to-be-classics of the moment like Salt-N-Pepas Lets Talk About Sex and Color Me Badds I Wanna Sex You Up, while everyone danced. 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. Youd think he would have been the most outrageous-looking person there, but he looked like a businessman. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. Lines around the block. 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. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. Harrys Hula Hut had bamboo walls, palm trees, and Nerf basketball available, plus all-you-can-drink beer. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. Then you checked to see if there was anything in the theater papers for auditions. 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 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. I went over and started chatting with him, and we became completely engrossed in this conversation about jazz. Fleming's was a fun Irish bar on the upper east side in the 1980s & 1990s, up until it closed in 1994. Or with only a few comments in between. 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. And shoulder pads. And the hair. Likewise, by the end of the 1990s, the cocktail revival was just about to start in earnest in Manhattan pioneering cocktail bars such as Angels Share and Milk & Honey would open in 1993 and 1999, respectively and the craft beer and brewpub scene was in its infancy, and just about to explode in the aughts. In the summer of 1992, New York Magazine published a photo of the Slalom Shots alongside a brief blurb and, according to Block, That more or less started the anarchy in the neighborhood.. 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. One of my responses was to just keep working. Taylor Mead had a running tab at multiple bars. I tended to feel particularly safe in the theaters. Meanwhile, 25 new bars had opened between 76th and 96th Streets in the first years of the 1990s as well. Many of these bars tried to offer a sort of bridge from cheap college boozing to costly, real-world imbibing. We never served any food, but we always had a couple cases of beer and a basic bar. 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. No one says they have to leave a tip. Those who set the tone you had to have an outfit from me. 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. 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. [Kim] would work one day, and Id work the next. Bars & Music Mama's Bar. Youd have Chinese opera and then some kind of Russian circus act and then a punk band and then a drag queen. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. 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. They had gotten the idea that it was a very good headquarters. The apartment, at 1060 Fifth Avenue, at 87th Street, was like a fantasy apartment huge, with a view of the reservoir. Then it got to be a habit. Al Sharpton (right) backstage at Madison Square Garden on June 11, 1974. Howard was Lili LaLeen, a German film actress in a vintage Mary McFadden. 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. 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. But it did make me very, very moody there were a lot of underground clubs, and they wouldnt jump off till 1 a.m. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. (Never let on to a dog youre afraid of him, my Uncle Charlie would say.) And Dynasty. Ive never gotten over Dynasty. And then people started dying. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. They were on 51st or 52nd between Fifth and Madison. Madison Pub was an indispensable local dive. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. And then eventually some surface decoration with tucks and treatment Id take the fabric and just sew in any direction. Every parent, every grown-up was your mother and father. The bathroom of Area nightclub, which was located on 157 Hudson Street and opened in 1983. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. I didnt know anything. The whole reason I was able to raise money for my causes was because of him. [The clothes] were really like one-plus-one, big squares with holes, basically. 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. 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. Galleries and museums didnt exhibit their work at that time. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. My fantasy was to rent one of these theaters on 42nd Street and show my movie alongside Mad Monkey Kung Fu. During this period, Manhattan was where the action was, but there were exceptions to the rule: The Bronx: The Writers Bench, a meeting point where graffiti writers would watch passing trains adorned with their work; Disco Fever, the hip-hop club where Run-DMC played their first show; Fashion Moda, a community-minded art space that showed work by emerging artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lady Pink and Jane Dickson. To me it was all an art project. There was a great camaraderie. I spent a decade in New York City like that. Police barricades up and down Second Avenue. Afterward, wed go to a club. He and I had dinner every night, and a stream of our friends, including Keith Haring and Debbie Harry, would join. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. 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. 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. Gay and straight people would party together. But those deals enticed 22-year-olds to get out of their apartments. But, pre-AIDS anyway, it was also more diverse. This was every Friday. 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. Back uptown, Mortimers restaurant was a huge place for me. I was just out of high school. My first loss was my partner, around the time Grace Kelly died in 1982. (212) 861-2290. I didnt want to fit in. Can you come back later? Youd see people that you hadnt seen in months in the street with KS [Kaposis sarcoma] lesions; people would just disappear. See menus, reviews, ratings and delivery info for the best dining and most popular restaurants in East 80s. Ski Bar turned into a Taco Bell and Block moved to Telluride, Colo., where he and Singer opened a similar bar, Poachers Pub. I committed the tapes to memory; I would do them over and over. Within a few days, he came to my apartment, which is how I wound up doing the arrangements for Lets Dance.. James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. I found them very original, underivative of the 60s or 70s they had a cleanness and a strength to them. 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. Clear all filters. I said, To hell with it! Jasmine Guy auditioned; she wasnt of age yet. And the rest of us were kinda like, Oh man, what? I had a loft downtown on Walker Street, one of the first buildings that went on loft strike. 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. 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. It was a total nexus. Since no ones making them, they dont.. 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. In the lot there are three vehicles. Today hes in his mid-50s and out of the bar business entirely. I didnt want anything to be more important than the writing. The front window was a queer Mount Rushmore, with the heavyweights looking out onto the street: Rene Ricard, Bill Rice, Peter Hujar, Paul Thek. You simply traveled to where things were happening. I would then either go to work or go to an opening because Macys closed at 8:45 or something, so you had to move on. Brandy's Piano Bar 68 Bars & Clubs Gay Bars Upper East Side Open now There was a place called Columbus, on Columbus Avenue and 69th Street. Our club-hop starts with the titular Limelight, Gatien's firstand still favoriteNew York club. 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. It was at Avenue A and St. Marks Place, but the windows looked out on an air shaft, not the park. (What a loft was, I wasnt entirely sure.) Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. 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. ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. 68. Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over. Wednesdays and Thursdays were Ultimate Ladies Night with free Margaritas all evening, not to mention a gratis taco bar during happy hour. There was always someone between apartments or someone coming to town who needed somewhere to stay. And then he asked me again: Dap, whats she doing? That completely opened my mind. 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. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. Others would drop by out of curiosity and wonder what was on my mind. But I did it anyway. My parents were heroin addicts, beatniks. An unpublished male nude Polaroid from 1981 by photographer Tom Bianchi. It was nothing but rejection. Id go for two, three, four hours and have a fairly good time. 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. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. Thats pretty good.. I was in my early 30s, and I had Tatiana and Alex, my children, so I didnt stay out until dawn like I had in the 1970s. Book with OpenTable. Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (far right) in Spell #7, 1979. I lived and still live in a large duplex at the corner of Park Avenue and 80th Street, in a 1907 building designed by Delano and Aldrich. 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. Like the Womens Christian Temperance Union. All the music [in the atelier on 125th Street] came from the VCR. Miller, Edited by Kate Guadagnino and Thessaly La Force. The gallerys not open so youll have to come back. Of course, it wasnt just rising rents, Mayor Giuliani, and smart phones that would kill ladies night on the Upper East Side. 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. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. Nobody was talking to him, probably because they didnt recognize him. The original flier for Kellys show at the Pyramid Club in 1981. Amura ($$) Japanese Menu Available. I loved things coming around and you had to grab them, like getting your luggage off a luggage rack. Everyone writes that I was his tour manager, but thats not what it was.

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