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Variety, East Village Style
The Variety Theater in 2004. As EV Grieve recently reported, the final credits may be on the way for a movie theater turned grocery store on Avenue A. As the end may be coming for the former Hollywood...
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Oscars, Opera and Orson Welles at Onyx Court
We always thought the building at 193 Second Avenue at the corner of 12th Street was extraordinarily handsome and well-designed. Based on our extensive research of the East Village we learned a lot...
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Building Detective: Where in the East Village Was Bernard Herrmann?
Alfred Hitchcock. Source: www.feelthefilms.wordpress.com Citizen Kane Psycho North by Northwest Taxi Driver Recognize these movies? Can you guess what they all have in common? As the title of this post...
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Happy Birthday Combat Rock and Joey Ramone
We have two great birthdays in the world of punk to mark. The two celebrants straddle the East and West Village, and both sides of the Atlantic. Today, May 14, is the day in 1982 when the Clash’s...
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Scouting out some of the City’s coolest places
A courtyard and backhouse on Perry Street. Scouting New York features views of places that aren’t always accessible to the general public. Image via Scouting New York. Recently, Off the Grid has...
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Taxi Driver, Released February 8, 1976
Taxi Driver, released February 8, 1976 41 years ago today, New York City was a much different place than it is today. By almost every measure it was dirtier and more dangerous. Many viewed the city as...
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Nickelodeon Theater with a Varied History: The Variety
The Variety Photoplay Browsing through GVSHP’s recently updated image archives, I came across photographs of the Variety Theater, which was, once upon a time, a favorite place of mine to go and see new...
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It Happened Here: Taxi Driver
The innocuous-looking apartment building at 226 East 13th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, may raise few eyebrows now. But on February 8, 1976, the building became synonymous in the popular...
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