…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…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…one.” He has spent 40 years walking around the streets of New York by day, shooting whatever interesting catches his eye. Known for his night photographs of the Bowery punk…
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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…name appropriated from a storefront sign with missing letters, was a catchy punk name that appealed to the anarchistic sensibility of the artists that ran a storefront gallery in a…
Read More…has been called “a learned pleasure.” Alexiou will share these stories, giving us a fuller understanding of the street’s history, politics, luminaries, punks, and divas — and what’s in store…
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…lived, where Punk reigned supreme, and where the musical Rent is set, depicted impoverished young artists struggling in the shadow of AIDS. As in every place where the arts have…
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…juggernaut. From the East Village to Hell’s Kitchen, from the Bowery to Washington Heights—Hamilton weaves a spellbinding web of urban mythology. Punks, hippies, beatniks, squatters, junkies, derelicts, and anarchists, search…
Read More…ever-cumulative narratives. Films to be screened include Stations of the Elevated (1981) Punking Out (1978) Surface Tension (1968) andSouthern Images (1983). Full list of films HERE. Presented in the first…
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…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…and counterculture in America over half a century ago — but there is much more than meets the eye. Before the beatniks, hippies, and punks (and way before the t-shirt…
Read More…vast and ever-cumulative narratives. Films to be screened include Stations of the Elevated (1981) Punking Out (1978) Surface Tension (1968) and Southern Images (1983). Full list of films HERE. Presented…
Read More…vast and ever-cumulative narratives. Films to be screened include Stations of the Elevated (1981) Punking Out (1978) Surface Tension (1968) andSouthern Images (1983). Full list of films HERE. Presented in…
Read More…Riots in 1988, Clayton lived at the intersection of numerous underground cultures, from drag queens to punks, gangbangers to tattoo artists, breathing in the same creative energy that gave life…
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…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…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…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…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 2019. In 1916, Peggy Rockefeller selected Beatrix Farrand to design the Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden. The garden contains over 4,000 rose plants and 680 varieties…
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…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…wrote Two Gentlemen of Verona, a rock-musical modernization of William Shakespeare’s comedy, which won the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for best musical of 1971–72. Guare dealt…
Read More…Baraka was still writing poetry into the 1990s, and his work has been lauded and recognized with a PEN/Faulkner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award…
Read More…jewelry, and other valuables of some of New York’s most prominent citizens, including Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Jay Gould. It was also famed for its vaults and security…
Read More…in the hopes of increasing subscriptions. One of the first musicals staged under Fuller’s direction was The Cradle Will Rock during the 2000-2001 Season. In addition to staging productions, the Cocteau sought…
Read More…recording here. Some of the greatest rock, hip hop, disco, jazz, and R&B artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries recorded with Rob, who began his career in…
Read More…world-renowned for its beauty and status as a New York City icon, but it is also a marvel of construction. However, the building got off to a rocky start when…
Read More…unknown crime, and his interactions with Rocky (an older teen incarcerated for stealing a car from his male lover), Mona (who was falsely accused of making a homosexual pass at…
Read More…to purge Jews and politically hostile elements from German universities. With the financial support of philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, The New School obtained funding to provide a…
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…The Monkees were a rock/pop musical group active between 1966 and 1971, with tours in the decades that followed. They were a made-for-TV band created for a series that aired…
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…the design of the apartment towers featured an organic “tap-root” structural system with a central load-bearing core extending to the subterranean bedrock. This freed the interior from intrusive load-bearing walls…
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…jazz acts as well as poetry reading by prominent Beat poets including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. By the 1960s it was also featuring underground rock and roll acts; it…
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…jazz acts as well as poetry reading by prominent Beat poets including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. By the 1960s it was also featuring underground rock and roll acts; it…
Posted June 2, 2020
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 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…
Read More…The big empty pier (#49) provided a perfect view of the activities of the tugboats moving barges of trap rock down to the World Trade Center area and upstate as…
Read More…and I can still do it. Why not? Why not?” At 75, in 2013, Mr. Williams returned to the stage for an Ailey company New Year’s Eve performance of Rocka…
Read More…a rocket. Leontyne Price after her Met debut It is impossible to speak of Ms. Price’s career without noting that she was the first African American superstar opera singer, and…
Read More…Rocky Twins, brothers and successful drag performers at Webster Hall Webster Hall has hosted a wide range of parties and meetings over its 134 year history. In its early years it…
Read More…presented a revised proposal to the Commission on May 11th, 2010, which the Commission voted to approve. The minor revisions to the May 4th proposal involved adding rock-cut bluestone to…
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…located at Houston and Thompson Streets. In spite of its noble and dignified appearance, the church traveled a rocky path from the beginning. Barely seven years after it opened, it…
Read More…Dr. Howard Brown, Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Natalie Rockhill, and Bruce Voeller, knew it was time to create change on a national level. Among its early…
Read More…into the Waverly Theater, where the Rocky Horror Picture Midnight Show was first launched. In the early 2000s, the theater was transformed again into today’s IFC Center. What is now…
Read More…the Rock (1931), a historical fiction novel about a Québécois family in the 1690s. Cather didn’t enjoy living at the apartment hotel, which became an NYU dorm in the 1960s, and…
Read More…Cafe-Au-Go-Go at 152 Bleecker Street. Photo via Rock Cellar Magazine. Bruce was convicted of obscenity charges on November 4, 1964 along with club owner Howard Solomon, who along with his…
Read More…Photo from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive From then on, the building had a very rocky path. Finally, in 1954, developers planned to tear down the structure and replace it with…
Read More…in Queens while hobos and bums live in Rockaway beach… So we wrote script, recorded it, and customers listened as they toured each room.” Coultas traces her lineage to the…
Read More…discography, contributed the liner notes to the 21st century remasters of the entire Joan Baez catalog and has annotated 125 historic folk, rock, blues, jazz, and country albums. A two-time…
Read More…we count the Dalai Lama and David Bowie. If you feel that you are more entitled than a living deity or a rock god I’m afraid we’ll have to disagree.”…
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…civil rights and social justice leaders and publishers 41-43 University Place, home of rock stars and award-winning playwrights 56 Third Avenue, home of great sculptors, art galleries, and filmmakers 113…
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…of Rev. Dr. Lewis’ dreams and prayers, “a multiethnic rainbow coalition of love, justice, and worship that rocks her soul.” Middle Church facade after the fire. “The Fire: This Time”:…
Read More…Prize in literature, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, an Academy Award, and induction into the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame. Dylan’s first NYC apartment was at 161…
Read More…More Resources to Explore: “The Redstockings: ‘Rapping’ for Reproductive Rights in Greenwich Village” on our Blog, Off the Grid “Vasant Rai: Guru of Gaga-Rock” on our Blog, Off the Grid…
Read More…prior to STOMP include Little Shop of Horrors in 1982, Sandra Bernhard’s Without You I’m Nothing in 1988, The Lady in Question in 1989, Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll in 1990, John Leguizamo’s Mambo Mouth in 1991, and David Mamet’s Oleanna in…
Read More…adorned by a sunken Japanese rock and sculpture garden designed by Bunshaft’s frequent collaborator, Greenwich Village artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and later graced by the addition of artist Jean…
Read More…of four to almost seven hundred students and ninety teachers and administrators. Notable alumni include Adam Horvitz (a.k.a. Ad Rock) of the Beastie Boys, rapper and actor Dante Terrell Smith…
Read More…1940s, when patients with a history of serious mental illness (i.e., schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder resistant to conventional treatment) formed a support group at the Rockland Psychiatric Center that they…
Read More…a deep interest in history, literature, and music. Originally from Rockaway, New Jersey, she often visited her extended family in New York City. These interests flourished as she learned about…
Read More…at AICH were recorded, edited, and broadcasted on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in half-hour segments. This episode features a performance by the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers and blues-rock group ‘Indigenous’….
Read More…a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center for Scholars at Bellagio. Susan B. Fainstein Sharon Zukin is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center….
Read More…Patricia Field outside of her store on 8th Street 1987. Source: Harpers Bazaar The store attracted celebrity clientele starting in the late 1970s, when poet-turned-rock musician Patti Smith stumbled into…
Read More…prominence began in 1940, with the completion of a critically acclaimed large scale stainless steel bas relief entitled News for the Associated Press Building in Rockefeller Center. News Shortly thereafter,…
Read More…Church. The building was home to notable publishers connected to the likes of Norman Rockwell, and to clothing manufacturers. It was the scene of significant labor disputes, and played a…
Read More…the adjacent historic Grace Church. The building was home to notable publishers connected to the likes of Norman Rockwell and clothing manufacturers. It was the scene of significant labor disputes,…
Read More…Patricia Field outside of her store on 8th Street 1987. Source: Harpers Bazaar The store attracted celebrity clientele starting in the late 1970s, when poet-turned-rock musician Patti Smith stumbled into…
Read More…for the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which played every Friday and Saturday night there for 11 years. The theater closed in 1992 and is now the site of a medical practice. 3….
Read More…of entertainment and quickly became a tourist attraction. Back when it met at Jefferson Market, John D. Rockefeller was said to enjoy the diversion. Greenwich Village’s storied past is filled…
Read More…her love of poetry with rock-n-roll, and essentially launched her career as a performer. Some of the work she read that night would become the songs on her first album, Horses. The…
Read More…of Freedom, an Academy Award, and induction into the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame. This exhibit, presented in augmented reality, allows the viewer to “enter” this historic…
Read More…manufacturing building was meant to harmonize with the adjacent historic Grace Church. The building was home to notable publishers connected to the likes of Norman Rockwell, and to clothing manufacturers….
Read More…Rockwell Gallery at Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street) Co-sponsored by the Salmagundi Club Library Committee, Merchant’s House Museum, and Victorian Society of New York. Meet Q.K. Philander…
Read More…Riveter was painted by Norman Rockwell, who was, incidentally, a long-standing member of the Salmagundi Club. The emergence of “Rosie the Riveter” marked a significant shift in societal attitudes toward women’s work and gender…
Read More…our past programs, click here. Vanished Mansions of Lower Fifth Avenue: Celebrating the Iconic Street at 200 Thursday, April 4, 2024 6 PM In-person Pre-registration required Free Location: Rockwell Gallery at…
Read More…Robbins, the civil libertarian columnist Nat Hentoff, fashion reporter Lynn Yaeger, and self-appointed “Dean of American Rock Criticism” Robert Christgau. It also provided a visual forum for photographers who defined the look and feel…
Read More…of jazz, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll. The spirit of experimentation and innovation that has long defined Greenwich Village continues to thrive, making it a dynamic and ever-evolving hub of…
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