18 November 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, New York City
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CBGB club facade in 2005 © Adicarlo/cc-by-sa-3.0
CBGB was a
New York City music club opened in 1973 by
Hilly Kristal in
Manhattan‘s
East Village. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a
dive bar. The letters
CBGB were for
Country,
BlueGrass, and
Blues, Kristal’s original vision, yet CBGB soon became a famed venue of
punk rock and
new wave bands like the
Ramones,
Television,
Patti Smith Group,
Blondie, and
Talking Heads. From the early 1980s onward, CBGB was known for
hardcore punk.
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20 June 2016 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, New York City
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Houston Street © David Shankbone/cc-by-sa-3.0
The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in the southern portion of the
New York City borough of
Manhattan. The street runs from
Chatham Square at
Park Row,
Worth Street, and
Mott Street in the south to
Cooper Square at
4th Street in the north, while the neighborhood’s boundaries are roughly
East 4th Street and the
East Village to the north;
Canal Street and
Chinatown to the south;
Allen Street and the
Lower East Side to the east; and
Little Italy to the west. A
New York City Subway station named
Bowery, serving the
BMT Nassau Street Line (
J / Z trains), is located close to the Bowery’s intersection with
Delancey and Kenmare Streets. There is a tunnel under the Bowery once intended for use by
proposed but never built New York City Subway services, including the
Second Avenue Subway.
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17 February 2016 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, New York City
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Building between First and Second Avenues © Beyond My Ken/cc-by-sa-4.0
East Village is a neighborhood in the
New York City borough of
Manhattan. Its boundary to the north is
Gramercy Park and
Stuyvesant Town, to the south by the
Lower East Side, and to the east by the
East River. Generally, although definitions vary on the neighborhood’s exact street boundaries, the East Village is considered to be the area east of
Broadway to the
East River, between
14th Street and
Houston Street. The East Village contains several smaller vibrant communities, each with its own character:
Alphabet City,
Tompkins Square Park,
Bowery,
East River Park and
La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez.
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