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Being There: Memories of Danceteria, Paradise Garage, and the NYC Club Scene of the 1980s

Nightclubbing, we’re nightclubbing Oh, isn’t it wild? –“Nightclubbing” by David Bowie and Iggy Pop In the summer of 1981 I moved back to New York City after spending three years in...

The Sordid History of New York City’s Nightclub Crime Scene

Nightclubs encourage depravity. I think that’s why I was drawn to them, despite being a straight-edge square. The New York City spots of my youth offered seminude dancers, sex and...

New York Historical Opens Exhibition on 1970s Punk, Disco, and Hip Hop

The New York Historical, the first of New York’s museums, has opened a new exhibition titled You Should Be Dancing: New York, 1976 and Beyond. Featuring a wide variety of documents...

A Sweaty Scrapbook of New Yorkers Going Out This Summer

We dispatched a photographer to the city’s raves, roller discos, and bingo halls.

Soft Cell Revisits 1980s N.Y.C. With ‘Danceteria,’ The Duo’s Final Album

On 'Danceteria,' the British synthpop duo of Marc Almond and Dave Ball celebrate their time in New York City where they made their 1981 debut record, 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.'

The Music of Sesame Street, Brought to You By The Letters N-Y-C

In the late 1960s, New York bore the deep scars of urban neglect. There were no trendy coffee shops, boutique fitness studios and Citi Bike stations lining the sidewalks. In workin...

I Was a ’90s Male Model

“We were working out like crazy and partying all night.”

Yoshitomo Nara’s New York Story Can Be Found in its Punk Clubs

Seventeen years after he drew on the walls at Niagara in the East Village, the artist is a superstar, one of only a handful of living artists to have cracked the $25 million mark f...

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Knicks In Five, But Movados In ’99

By all accounts, the city of New York is still abuzz from its first NBA Championship in five decades. I’m not a local, but friends and basketball media alike recount stories of New...

NYC works 9 to 5, then lights up pink for Dolly

A sidewalk sign outside Lucinda’s in the East Village pays tribute to Dolly Parton ahead of the bar’s Tuesday night bluegrass jam. From an East Village honky-tonk t...

Jim Jones & Fabolous “New York,” Ghostface Killah “Soul Thang” & More | Daily Visuals 9.1.26

Summer 2026 for New York City has been one for the books as not only did the New York Knicks win the NBA Championship for the first time in decades, but NY also has the most belove...

'Counter Culture' offers photographic ode to New York City’s enduring diners

Tom’s Restaurant, 2880 Broadway, Morningside Heights A new photo book preserves the longtime city staples. [ more › ]

’80s Downtown NYC Audio Cassette Magazine TELLUS Getting Vinyl Anthology Feat. Sonic Youth, Liquid Liquid, Live Skull, &...

Ever since the 2000s heyday of blogs and MySpace, music journalism has often come embedded with tracks for listening on demand. Before that, there were magazines that included a CD...

Mike D Brings 5D and Thank You to Knockdown Center in Queens

Nearly two decades after the Beastie Boys played their final concert, Mike D is back on the road, this time under his own name. On Wednesday, September 9, Mike D brought his new pr...

Mini ball pays tribute to Yves Saint Laurent at International Center for Photography

The International Center for Photography on Ludlow Street in Manhattan hosted a mini ball on Sept. 10 at the Yves Saint Laurent photography gallery. The event, officially billed as...

Prostitution busts plunge 60% — but hookers multiply — in NYC’s infamous ‘Market of Sweethearts’

Scoring illegal sex along Queens' Roosevelt Avenue has never been easier -- as records show a nearly 60% drop in prostitution-related arrests along the seedy strip since soft-on-cr...

New York Series: Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Brooklyn Zoo”

Standing out as one of New York City’s most unique MCs of all time, the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s discography chalks full of city anthems, whether spawning from his time with Wu-Tan...

The Killing Yards

In 1990s New York, a drug trafficker-turned-reformed businessman fights to keep a nightclub profitable and clean while under attack from nightlife competition, city officials, and...

The Boogiedown, “THE NY SPORTS BAR OF DC”, coming soon to Adams Morgan!

2321 18th Street, NW “The Boogiedown THE NY SPORTS BAR OF DC Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders, Big East Basketball WE LAUNCH 9/11/26 Yankees v Mets” Ba...

Soft Cell Finds an Ending Back Where It All Began

On “Danceteria,” releasing nearly a year after Dave Ball’s death, the synth-pop duo retreats into the grit and joy of downtown New York in the 1980s.

B Scene

B Scene is a two-level music venue in the East Village.

A new book sheds light on the birth of punk in New York City fifty years ago

When punk coalesced into something tangible in NYC in 1976, Legs McNeil was a 19-year-old fan who was witness to everything first-hand. His new book tells his story.