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This is Radio Clash
On November 20, 1981, The Clash’s genre-defying record ‘This Is Radio Clash’ was released. The band’s last stand-alone single, it presaged not only the direction the band would go in…
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“London Calling:” The Clash and the Village
…Jones, Joe Strummer, and Topper Headon of the Clash during the mixing of ‘This Is Radio Clash’ at Electric Lady Studios. London Calling Album Art A photo of Paul Simonon…
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Remembering the boy bar
…Marks place from 1984-1993. It was well known for its regular drag nights and featured drag events such as Valley of the Dolls, Clash of the Titans, It’s a Mod…
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Happy Birthday Combat Rock and Joey Ramone
…before splitting off from the band, and the Clash finally dissolved. The Clash on-stage during the Combat Rock tour. Joe Strummer sported a mohawk during much of this time, much…
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The First Red Scare Comes to Town: the 1919 IWW Headquarters Raid
…days before the government raid on IWW in the East Village, on November 11, 1919, there was a violent clash between World War I veterans and IWW members in Centralia,…
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Electric Lady Studios: Jimi Hendrix, And So Much More
…the last nearly half-century and only the latest incarnation of one of the Village’s most unusual and storied structures. The Clash, Lou Reed, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Blondie, Run DMC, The…
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Iconic album covers of Greenwich Village and the East Village: Then and now
…the East Village, and theirs is not the only epochal punk album cover shot there. Perhaps equally iconic is the cover of the Clash’s “London Calling,” showing Paul Simonon smashing…
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Hip Hop’s 2nd Birthplace, Part 5: Negril Nightclub
…Conzo, Jr. Kool Lady Blue threw a grand reopening of Negril on January 7th, 1982 featuring a mash-up lineup including Kosmo Vinyl of the Clash and DJ Scratchy, the DJ…
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Tour the Meccas of East Village Punk via Our Building Blocks Website
…before it was converted to a nightclub in 1985. The Clash, a band from the original wave of British punk rock, played here in September 1979 during their The Clash…
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Hip Hop’s 2nd Birthplace, Part 5: Negril Nightclub
…Conzo, Jr. Kool Lady Blue threw a grand reopening of Negril on January 7th, 1982 featuring a mash-up lineup including Kosmo Vinyl of the Clash and DJ Scratchy, the DJ…
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Movie Palace, Music Hall, Dance Club: the Many Lives of the Palladium
…the Ramones, and Bruce Springsteen. Famously, the Clash performed at the venue in September of 1979. During the performance the band’s bassist Paul Simonon crashed his bass onto the stage….
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The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated
…situated. Only seven years after it opened, the workers of the neighborhood clashed with police while rallying against unemployment and food shortages. Two more huge labor rallies met with violence…
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Ferlinghetti and Rosset: Censorship-Battling Superheroes
…Night” and the previously-banned writings of the Marquis de Sade. Also in 1962, thesde two titans of literary freedom, Rosset and Ferlinghetti, finally came together in their efforts to dismantle…
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Celeste Holm: Greenwich Villager On The Small Screen, And In Real Life
…in Greenwich Village (the show was also an early effort by two soon-to-be-titans of American television). Beyond these career tent poles, Holm made a name for herself in multiple media,…
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Archigrafika: Your Friendly Neighborhood Graphic Designers
…office spaces, and even cultural exhibitions. We love working with Archigrafika because not only do they have the talent to be the primary designers for corporate titans like Willis Towers…
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Tompkins Square Park, the Summer of Love, the Dead, and a Riot
…clashes were frequent. Interestingly, as a way to mitigate the tensions, the police convinced the Grateful Dead to give a free outdoor concert which was held the day before the…
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Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti — East Meets West (Village, that is)
…recording studio built by and for Jimi Hendrix; The Clash, Lou Reed, Kiss, Blondie, Run DMC, Common, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Nas, Kanye West, Madonna, Beyonce, Stevie Wonder, Billy Idol,…
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Irish Parade Riots
…conflict resolution: holiday parade riots. Specifically, Irish immigrants clashed with opposing political forces at parades. While parades may seem a strange venue for physical confrontations, Irish parades have long been…
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Memo to Developers: Don’t Kill the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
…You call the preservation community “dysfunctional.” Why? The community has given itself a luxury it cannot afford—it has allowed old baggage, personality clashes, institutional egos, and turf battles to get…
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David Bowie’s ‘Fame’ Released July 25, 1975
…West 8th Street (as were The Clash’s Combat Rock, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, and Patti Smith’s Horses, among many others). Fame was co-written by Bowie, John Lennon (whose voice is…
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GVSHP 2016 Book List & Holiday Gift Ideas
…novella, Ed Hamilton takes on this clash of cultures between the old and the new, as his characters are forced to confront their own obsolescence in the face of this…
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The Hallowed Music Halls of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…place surely serves as a reminder of Hendrix’s astonishing contributions to music history in his brief but transformative career. From greats like The Clash, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, and the Rolling…
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The Bygone Days of a Cowboy Club in Greenwich Village
…in the late 1960s, it became the basement of Electric Lady Studios, where Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, and pretty much every other rock group recorded. Village history never ceases to…
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History Lost to NYU
…Genesis, the Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, The Ramones, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead, The Clash, U2, Duran Duran, The Undertones, and Chuck Berry. From 1985 to 1997 the Palladium operated as a nightclub. In 1997…
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The South Village and Prohibition
…neighborhood’s immigrant demographic. The New York Times listed seven speakeasies in the South Village. The consumption of alcohol was a natural part of many immigrant cultures that clashed with the…
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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area
…Film and Television at UCLA. The original members of the Native American Theater Ensemble (NATE) in alphabetical order are: Richard Camargo (Comanche); Monica Charles (Klallam); Timothy Clashin (Navajo); Keith Conway…
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The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York A book talk with author Ed Hamilton
…the clash of cultures between the old and the new New York, as his characters are forced to confront their own obsolescence in the face of a rapidly surging capitalist…
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Fred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s
…most legendary and sought-after recording studios in the world, producing records by everyone from the Clash to Beyonce, the Ramones to Madonna, Hendrix barely got to savor or experience one…
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Happy Birthday Electric Lady Studios…
…latest incarnation of one of the Village’s most unusual, and most storied, structures. The Clash, Lou Reed, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Blondie, Run DMC, Common, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Nas, Kanye…
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Szia, Nadia! – Immigrant History through the Lens of Netflix’s “Russian Doll”
…Natasha Lyonne wandering Tompkins Square Park in the Netflix series “Russian Doll.” (Photograph sourced from Netflix’s “Russian Doll”) On Aug. 6, 1988, demonstrators in Tompkins Square Park clashed with the…
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On This Day: New York City Draft Riots
Draft rioters clash with military troops on First Avenue between 11 and 14 Streets. On July 13, 1863 began several days of violence in New York City known as the…
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April 23, 1976: Ramones Debut Album Released; Music Changed Forever
…the first truly punk album, it inspired thousands of other bands, not least among them the Sex Pistols and the Clash, who would enjoy far greater success in their lifetimes…
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Seinfeld’s Off the Grid Anniversary
…numbered street grid north of Houston Street clashes with the north-south oriented named street grid south of Houston Street on the East Side. Perhaps even more jarringly, here Houston Street…
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Exploring the Agnes Balcer Image Collection
…the most iconic musical artists including The Clash, Lou Reed, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Blondie, Run DMC, Common, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Nas, Kanye West, Madonna, Beyonce, Stevie Wonder, Billy Idol,…
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Village Award Winner Trash & Vaudeville: The Legacy of the Iconic Punk Rock Boutique
…was also one of the first retailers in the U.S. to carry Doc Martin’s boots. Famous musicians including Carlos Santana, The Clash, The Dead Boys, Slash, Bob Dylan, and Bruce…
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Hispanic Heritage in the East Village: A Walk through Loisaida
…seen), and the curfew riots of the 1980s. On Aug. 6, 1988, demonstrators in Tompkins Square Park clashed with the police over a proposed curfew.(Photograph taken by Ángel Franco of…
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Exploring the New York City Backdrops of Sex and the City
…luxurious loft, Samantha’s choice highlighted the growing appeal and desirability of the neighborhood. However, her clash with sex workers in the area (a controversial episode due to transphobic language) exemplified…
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Booker T. Ervin: The Jazz Musician’s Favorite
…learn more about great musicians like Roy Orbison, Benny Goodman, Art Blakey, Tim Buckley, Frank Zappa, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Junior Vasquez, the Clash, The…
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Signaling Change: Remembering the Tompkins Square Park Bandshell
…park, eventually creating significant unrest and clashes between some parkgoers and police. The loss of beloved infrastructure like the bandshell, at the time used for much different purposes than originally…
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The Equine Legacy in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…street system, several of our ‘crooked’ streets clash with those so-called straight streets. A prime example of this is Stuyvesant Street in the East Village. Stuyvesant Street in the 1840s…
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Fulfillingness’ First Finale: A Stevie Wonder Classic Born of Pain, Recovery, and Greenwich Village
…in Greenwich Village’s historic Electric Lady Studios, located at 52 West Eighth Street — a storied space that also produced renowned works by The Clash (see also here), David Bowie,…
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Hot Dog History in the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive
…Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. Sadly, the Greenich Village location closed in 1978, reporteldy after clashing with the local community board. Community Board 2’s District Manager at the time, Rita…
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Dave Van Ronk: Ally at the Stonewall Uprising
…guilty to harassment, and he was later sued by the officer he allegedly assaulted. The uprising lasted for six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement, both outside…
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The Star Spangled Banner and the Village
…would live on and would be responsible for many of the greatest rock, hip hop, and pop albums of the last nearly half-century. The Clash, Lou Reed, Kiss, Led Zeppelin,…
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David Bowie, A Fellow Villager
…first number one US hit at Greenwich Village’s Electric Lady Studios on West 8th Street (also the home of other classic albums such as The Clash’s Combat Rock, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti,…
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