Fred W. McDarrah: Iconic Images of the Village & East Village, Part 2 - Village Preservation

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Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) was an American photojournalist renowned for documenting the social, cultural, and political landscape of the downtown and New York City generally from the 1950s through the 1980s. He was an author and a staff photographer for The Village Voice. His late wife Gloria, late son Timothy, and son Patrick have supported Village Preservation greatly and provided these photographs that document our collective cultural history.

Rights: © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. Our special thanks to the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah for their support of Village Preservation

View looking East along 10th Street at the intersection of 4th Avenue. The corner building at right, 73 4th Avenue, was one of the six locations of the Artist’s Club (demolished)

Washington Square Park

Colledge of Complexes, 139 West 10th Street

Allen Ginsberg at home, 170 East 2nd Street, 3

Allen Ginsberg at home, 170 East 2nd Street, 2

Allen Ginsberg at home, 170 East 2nd Street

Gaslight Cafe, 116 MacDougal Street

Cafe Bizarre, 106 West 3rd Street. This building was demolished and replaced with an NYU Law School dorm.

Diane di Prima sits atop a piano and reads from her collection ‘This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards’ to an audience at the Gaslight Cafe, 116 MacDougal Street

Cafe Bizarre, 106 West 3rd Street, which advertises ‘Fantastic Decor,’ ‘Folk Singers,’ and a steel drum band all for a 50 cent admission fee. This building was demolished and replaced with an NYU Law School dorm.

8th Street Bookshop, 30 West 8th Street

Kettle of Fish bar, 114 MacDougal Street. Poet Brigid Murnaghan who holds her infant daughter Annie, is in the doorway.

Women’s House of Detention (demolished) at Greenwich and Sixth Avenue. At this time, the prison had been closed for two years and was slated for demolition, which was completed the following year.

Orchard Street between Hester and Canal

18 West 11th Street after the Weatherman explosion, 2

18 West 11th Street after the Weatherman explosion

Dustin Hoffman stands with onlookers as firefighters battle the flames from the Weatherman explosion in the basement of 18 West 11th Street

Gaslight Cafe banner, 116 MacDougal Street

Jane Jacobs, who wears a sign that reads ‘Kill the Xpressway Now,’ answers a journalist’s questions. With her is politician Martin M. Berger (left) and a woman identified as Rachel Wall. They were attending a demonstration on Park Row against the proposed ‘Lower Manhattan Expressway,’ also known as the ‘Broome Street Expressway.’

Edward Hopper’s brushes in his studio, 3 Washington Square North

Edward Hopper in his studio, 3 Washington Square North

Bleecker Street Cinema, 144 Bleecker Street

Pageant Book & Print Shop, 109 East 9th Street

Variety Theater, 110-112 Third Avenue, 2

Variety Theater, 110-112 Third Avenue

Allen Ginsberg at home, 170 East 2nd Street, 4

On set filming ‘Taxi Driver,’ in a cafe on 3rd Avenue and East 13th Street

On set filming ‘Taxi Driver,’ in a cafe on 3rd Avenue and East 13th Street, 2

Ed Koch sits in an unidentified outdoor restaurant (likely O’Henry’s on 6th Avenue and West 4th Street) and holds up a copy of the New York Times which features a headline story about the power blackout then affecting almost the entire city.

Bagel And, 53 Christopher Street (now Stonewall)

Poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, with musician, composer, and conductor David Amram outside the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South

Inside McSorley’s Old Ale House, 15 East 7th Street

From the back of a flatbed truck, Robert F. Kennedy campaigns for the U.S. Senate, with (r. to l.) 391-375 Sixth Avenue in the background. Standing beside him are (l. to r.) New York State Assemblyman William Passannante and local Democratic Party leader (and future congressman and three-term New York City Mayor) Ed Koch.

Police officers arrest demonstrators in Washington Square Park during the Beatnik Riots

Top of the Gate and Village Gate nightclub, 160 Bleecker Street

Bleecker Street between LaGuardia Place and Thompson Street

View south across the rooftops of Soho. The street at left is Sullivan Street and at right, Sixth Avenue with World Trade Center.

Jerry Rubin in front of Gem Spa, 131 Second Avenue. Rubin often hung out there and got egg creams; his pal Abbie Hoffman lived around the corner at 30 St. Marks Place for years.

John Belushi in front of 377-379 Bleecker Street

John Belushi, with (l. to r.) 381 and 377-379 Bleecker Street visible behind

Village Voice co-founder and editor Dan Wolf with author and Voice co-founder Norman Mailer in the Village Voice’s offices at 113 Seventh Avenue South

Loew’s Sheridan at 200-202 West 12th Street. The marquee advertises ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ (directed by Stanley Kramer) and ‘To Sir With Love’ (directed by James Clavell). This building has been demolished and is now the AIDS Memorial.

The Alamo Sculpture (“The Cube”), Astor Place

Jane Jacobs with her husband, architect Robert Hyde Jacobs, and their daughter, Burgin Jacobs, during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Central Park

Jane Jacobs speaks at a Community Board 2 hearing about the proposed ‘Lower Manhattan Expressway’

Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and artist Maretta Greer near the intersection of Hudson & Perry Streets

Orange Julius (42 West 8th Street), Dino’s Pizza (42 West 8th Street), and the Bon Soir nightclub (40 West 8th Street)

A crowd of people under the marquee for the Fillmore East (105 Second Avenue), which advertises ‘Dr Timothy Leary, The Death of the Mind.’ A multimedia presentation hosted by Leary, the piece explored the effects of LSD.

Gem Spa, 131 Second Avenue

Cafe La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, 321 East 9th Street

88-82 East 10th Street (l. to r.). Among the visible businesses are the New York Hotel Employment Agency, The Stryke Gallery, 84 Gallery, and the J&J Polishing and Plating Co.