…store is considered the first punk store in America. The Bellamo sisters were inspired by both the British and New York City punk music scenes, of which Tish and Snooky…
Read More…Rican community organizers at El Bohio, to the anarchist anti-fascist punks at ABC No Rio and the legendary punk shows. The continuity over the years and effectiveness of advocacy has…
Read More…as his distinctly American invention — an enduring symbol of cowboy and frontier life in the 1800s, of Beat ‘cool’ in the 1950s, hippies in the 1960s, and punk rebellion…
Read More…and lesbians, artists, punks – Irish immigration in the mid-19th century profoundly shaped both neighborhoods. Irish Americans and Irish immigrants played a critical role in building immigrant and artistic traditions…
Read More…and lesbians, artists, punks – Irish immigration in the mid-19th century profoundly shaped both neighborhoods. Irish Americans and Irish immigrants played a critical role in building immigrant and artistic traditions…
Read More…hands a number of times. From 1976 to 2012, Kenny’s Castaways hosted music shows by folk, blues, jazz, rock, hip-hop and punk performers, including greats like Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Patti…
Read More…through this area to look at several notable musicians, music venues, and recording studios that found a home here, from jazz to punk, blues to folk. With the help of…
Read More…rock albums. Then one day, in 1981, a friend over at Capitol Records swung by with three members of the up-and-coming band Duran Duran. They had come to the city…
Read More…East Village during the AIDS epidemic in the mid-to-late 1980s. This legendary rock opera, an updated version of “La Boheme,” celebrates the the once-Bohemian community of the East Village and…
Read More…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,…
Read More…rock and roll history as the place where Keith Richards meets Mick Jagger in the video for ‘Waiting on a Friend’ — the two end up meeting the rest of…
Read More…street at 315 Bowery is the former home of CBGBs. From 1973 to 2006, CBGBs was an influential incubator for underground groups in the punk and rock scene. From the GVSHP Image…
Read More…modern-day collecting. Edith was also known for collaborating with other women in the early American art scene. One woman in particular, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was a notable collaborator of Halpert’s….
Read More…associated with or believed to have impacted everyone from Salvador Dali and the surrealists, to Norman Rockwell (who called him “one of my gods”), Andy Warhol (a great collector of…
Read More…to be constructed in consecutive order going north. However, the rocky topography in some places along the route made that goal unattainable, and instead, it was constructed in a disjointed…
Read More…world music under the direction of Menachem Dworman. Menachem’s son Noam brought back the rock music format in 1987 (Menachem and Noam went on to own and operate the Comedy…
Read More…left unmarked. In 1989, Bessie Smith was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The induction letter stated “The Empress of the Blues’ reign was definitive, unprecedented and…
Read More…Union Square. RPM was one of the first boutique recording studios in the city during a golden age of music and recording here from 1976-2004. Some of the greatest rock,…
Read MoreThe Attica Prison Riots, which took place September 9th through 13th, 1971, rocked the entire country. The bloodiest prison disturbance in recent American history, the riot was unplanned but ignited…
Read More…Simon, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Jonathan Richman. So prominent was the Albert and its basement rehearsal space place in rock and roll history that, according to The Rock Encyclopedia,…
Read More…Children Camp” that Paul Robeson’s son attended. Other well-known names that were part of these circles include Marc Chagall, Albert Einstein, Louise Thompson Patterson, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, Vito Marcantonio, Rockwell…
Read More…art – and who an American artist – could be. With the help of wealthy collectors including Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Edsel Ford, Halpert brought progressive values to the fore…
Read More…smoking opium. The marriage was rocky, and they divorced in 1947, but Holiday’s problems with substance abuse continued. After the death of her mother in October 1945, Holiday began increasing…
Read More…into a staple of American television, and is one of the longest-running shows to date. A comedian knows they have made it once they get to 30 Rock. Saturday Night…
Read More…money and building of the sanitarium which was completed in 1892 in Rockaway. This was a time when New York was experiencing a flood of mostly poor Eastern European (Ashkenazi)…
Read More…Park in the Rockaways has, since opening in 1932, served as a monument to Art Deco design, grand public works, and popular beach-time fun. At GVSHP, we remember Jacob Riis’s…
Read MoreOn April 6th, 1968, The Who rocked the Fillmore East as part of a two-night residency. On April 20th, they will release a double CD and triple LP of that…
Read More…lived, worked, and waged battles in the Village? Was Valerie Solanas off her rocker? Maybe. Was she a prescient and trailblazing figure of radical feminism? Probably. Was she a renegade?…
Read More…non-profit corporation under the terms of a special bill signed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Papp conceived that he could use the new law to his advantage and build his new…
Read More…in 1969, she was senior curator. She also was an art consultant for a variety of corporations and private clients, including the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller University, Chase Manhattan Bank, the…
Read More…Neil Diamond, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James, Stevie Wonder, and Simon and Garfunkel. The Bitter End once staged folk “hootenannies” every Tuesday and now calls itself “New York’s oldest rock club”. Beat…
Read More…without the trail blazed by Carole King. Heralded as the “Queen of Rock” and the “greatest songwriter of all time,” King is a four-time Grammy winner, and in 1971 was…
Read More…of workers, and sexuality broke boundaries that are credited by artists across the blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop genres. Artists from Louis Armstrong to Janis Joplin point to Smith’s…
Read More…rock band Foghat’s fifth and most successful album, 1975’s “Fool for the City,” was shot right outside our offices on East 11th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. In fact,…
Read More…in the early 1990s was simply unparalleled, with a roster of iconic locations such as the Pyramid Club, Webster Hall, and CBGB. Live music, specifically rock, had been a staple…
Read More…the Art Deco masterpiece McGraw-Hill Building at opposite ends of 42nd Street, and guided the design of Rockefeller Center. Hood’s design “broke with tradition and utilized new forms,” wrote the…
Read More…several early American performances by the Rolling Stones. In 1971, with the closure of the Fillmore East, an iconic but short-lived rock venue in the East Village, the Academy of…
Read More…corporation under the terms of a special bill signed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Papp conceived that he could use the new law to his advantage and build his new theater…
Read More…business practices of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and his company, Standard Oil. While Tarbell resided on West 9th Street she wrote a searing collection of articles for McClure’s magazine…
Read MoreThe classic Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, considered by many the greatest and most influential rock album of all time, was released on May 26, 1967 in…
Read More…neighborhoods. And none are so rocking as the amazing Patti Smith. Singer, songwriter, and poet Patricia Lee Smith was born on December 30, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the…
Read More…worked as a lawyer, author, and civil rights leader. He is known for defending Diego Rivera when Rivera designed a portrait of Lenin against the Rockefeller family’s wishes, leading the…
Read More…hits this man was proudly blasting, “rocking our socks off” on our walk up the avenue. 72 2nd Avenue at 4th Street, Industrial National Bank Building and a cop, photographed…
Read More…Gaga exiting the Electric Lady Studios On August 26th, 1970, an iconic staple was introduced to the rock and roll scene on 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Created by Jimi…
Read MoreOn March 22, 1968, the legendary rock band The Doors performed at the East Village’s fabled Fillmore East. The performance is considered one of the most iconic in the band…
Read More…distortion and ambiguity to the painting. The Museum of Modern Art bought Woman I, and Blanchette Rockefeller, the wife of John D. Rockefeller III, bought Woman II. Backyard on 10th…
Read More…were so keen to get rid of had reason of its own, and should be respected. She continued her criticism and study with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, finally…
Read More…enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize…
Read More…Avenue with a relative. Upon admittance to Bellevue Hospital for emphysema, Nash refused to part with a beloved rocking chair she had brought with her all the way from Killarney,…
Read More…would drive the ten miles north to Asbury Park and be engulfed in the land of the Boss. I’d pass by the Stone Pony, considered one of the greatest rock…
Read More…on hard times, it attracted some of the most prominent names in folk and rock music as a place to both stay and practice. It was at the Albert that…
Read More…is this, a Norman Rockwell painting?” Of course life is not a Norman Rockwell painting. But the other night we did a program with photographers James & Karla Murray, who…
Read More…inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category of early influences. According to his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bio, “Pete Seeger’s contribution to folk…
Read More…bags or hats, or a Trump coloring book? At Exit9 Gift Emporium, 51 Avenue A– our August Business of the Month. Exit9 founder Charles rocking a hat available in the…
Read More…anarchists, and brash rock-and-roll stars. But the interior walls may be telling a different story by this time next year. Earlier in 2017, the historic concert hall was purchased by…
Read More…and how she is a rock and has afforded myriad opportunities for people to learn and blossom in the field of herbalism. Lata herself demured and said that the people…
Read MoreEast Village Gas Explosion Site, 2nd Ave. & 7th St. As we enter July, it’s not hard to notice that some of the dates align with some neighborhood intersections. In…
Read More…on to see rapid development and a great deal of New York history, including waves of different immigrant groups and flowering of cultural activity, from opera to punk and everything…
Read More…genres of science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, etc., whether it is through books, movies, television, and video or board games. As for the Village, many outlets for these interests can be…
Read More…from our neighborhoods, including the Westbeth Theatre Center, helped make the original show happen. John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s glam/punk musical would eventually become a movie directed by Mitchell….
Read More…and punk past, the East Village is also home to a few standout LGBT figures, events, and locations. From the literary to the ludicrous, East Village LGBT history is as…
Read More…Nationalists, Dixieland Jazz stars, and post-punk legends New Order, who played one of their first shows ever there on November 18, 1981, premiering an early version of their song “Temptation”…
Read More…Sister Sledge, Daft Punk, Madonna, Diana Ross, and Disclosure; and played a pivotal role in the flowering and success of rap and hip hop. Rodgers performing Less well known about…
Read More…gay life, drag queens, and punk.” Larson openly embraced the inspiration he drew for his work from Puccini’s opera La Bohème. But his work arguably bore an even closer resemblance…
Read More…Tompkins Square Park and the Young Lords Tompkins Square park is filled with a rich history of activism and punk culture. Among many other firsts, it is also the site where the Young Lords…
Read More…support of Village Preservation McDarrah’s chameleon camera lens was equally at home with proto-punk noisemakers The Velvet Underground as it was with any earnest folk singer. In fact, McDarrah was…
Read More…home to a Chipotle and a Supercuts. But the history of the building that launched the career of the godfathers of punk is full of more twists, turns, and ups…
Read More…Marks Place, a two-story former garage dating to 1949. After Boy Bar, the site was home to Coney Island High, one of the most popular punk venues in New York…
Read More…among locals and would remain so through at least the 1980s. But it was its popularity with beatniks, hippies, and punks during the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s that earned…
Read More…poetry readings, dance performances, experimental film and video showcases. But it became perhaps most famous as a mecca, albeit fleetingly, for the burgeoning downtown early-punk scene, when CBGBs was still…
Read More…Watch Tina Turner prance through the West Village, the Rolling Stones wait on a friend on St. Mark’s Place, and a 6-year old mohawked punk destroy the High Line here….
Read More…Godlis, Jackie Curtis, and Punk magazine. These shows have drawn overflow crowds, garnered enthusiastic reviews from local and national media, and become a focal point for the East Village creative…
Read More…The Hamilton-Holly House at 4 St. Mark’s Place, formerly the home of punk clothier Trash and Vaudeville, was the longtime home of Hamilton’s widow Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and their two…
Read More…depictions of giant Campbell’s Soup cans, after Andy Warhol. Adopting the name Fab 5 Freddy, he became an important early link between the uptown hip-hop and graffiti scenes and downtown punk and…
Read More…its connection to the downtown movements from the Village’s folk scene through punk, new wave and alternative music. In fact, the event was so popular that we will be re-screening…
Read More…bang their way through an ominous, barebones industrial set using as instruments primarily streetside clutter. Stomp’s punk sensibility always gave the impression that the show had emerged organically, perhaps on…
Read More…the existing punk, new wave, and no wave artists who were already living and creating in Greenwich Village and the East Village. The neighborhoods served as a nexus where African-American…
Read More…alike would shop for clothing and accessories. In the ’80s, this gigantic store pumped punk and hip hop music through speakers throughout the place. It was sort of a “nightclub-as-boutique”…
Read More…of what was then Junior High School 56 Patti Astor knew many graffiti and hip-hop artists and understood that like the punk artists playing downtown, the uptown rappers and painters…
Read More…and little bitty books The place was full of happy hop’d up hippies at the time #76: “Avenue A”, The Dictators (2001) Says TONY: “you can’t question the Gotham-punk bona…
Read More…plate, poet, DIY junk sculptor, proto-punk and feminist performance artist, the Baroness rode her creativity to the edge of madness in the early decades of 20th century bohemian Greenwich Village….
Read More…the connection between the Tiffanys and the East Village — a neighborhood most strongly associated with immigrants, hippies, punks, artists, anarchists, and various other unconventional types — may come as…
Read More…closed, Coney Island High occupied the site until 1999. This punk venue hosted shows by Iggy Pop, the Ramones, the Beastie Boys, and more. Prior to boy bar, Paul McGregor’s…
Read More…was buried in the Hungarian Jewish cemetery in Queens Amidst the upheaval and changes of WWII, the asylum moved to Far Rockaway in 1944, where the Hartmans had a summer…
Read More…parking meters, trapped the police inside the bar, lit fires, and pelted the police with coins and rocks. For two nights thereafter, LGBT New Yorkers and their allies gathered outside…
Read More…ends of 42nd Street, and guided the design of Rockefeller Center. American Radiator Building in the front, Empire State Building in the back Hood’s design for the American Radiator Building…
Read More…in this collection include Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Chris Rock, Governor George Pataki, and Governor Jesse Ventura. This collection was donated by Sonny’s wife, Beverly Wallace, in memory of Sonny and…
Read More…musical storytelling with roots in alternative folk and rock, neo-psychedelia, and spoken word poetry. He has released a debut album (‘The Crunch’), several EPs, and numerous singles to date. Lenny…
Read More…of trash and glam, and perhaps helped to inspire the glam rock movement of the 1970s. Andy Warhol said of Curtis, “Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is…
Read More…“in-person” concert events due to the ongoing public health situation, you can only imagine that the ghosts of Webster Hall are aching for adoring fans to return and rock the…
Read More…launched like a rocket. As one of the company’s leading prima donnas, Ms. Price accompanied the Met on tour, including to several Southern cities where theaters were segregated. Her presence…
Read More…Presbyterian Church located at Houston and Thompson Streets. In spite of its noble and dignified appearance, the 13th Street church traveled a rocky path from the beginning. Barely seven years…
Read More…one-act plays helped usher in a breed of theater that was experimental, political, and right up in-your-face. “When it opened,” wrote theater critic Marianne Evett, “it rocketed to fame, announcing…
Read More…dancer. She has a best friend, Sophie, but their relationship is on the rocks. The friendship between these two women drives the movie, which is filmed in black and white….
Read More…myriad variety of genres, focusing especially on jazz, classical, new music, avant garde, and indie rock, but also plays host to readings, comedy, film, DJs, parties, & theater. A number…
Read More…Robert Hogan House – 175 MacDougal Street,” Daytonian in Manhattan The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921 by Mary C. Kelly…
Read More…Glad?” by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. Photo courtesy of 45worlds.com The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first…
Read MoreImage via Wiki Commons. Everyone knows the folk-rock classic “Summer in the City” by the Lovin’ Spoonful, which topped the charts 51 years ago this August in 1966. But fewer…
Read More…1950s until his death. Blitzstein is best known for his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles. Cradle was notoriously shut down by the Works Progress Administration….
Read More…wore many of Slugger Ann’s clothes and was an early purveyor of trash and glam, and perhaps helped to inspire the glam rock movement of the 1970s. In Superstar in a…
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