Donated by Melissa D’Lando, this June 2001 photograph features D’Lando and her childhood best friend, Keith Grieger, on the roof of Terrace on the Park in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park during her senior prom for Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, NY.
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This image was taken by Chad Stamm, a former resident of 272 Bleecker during the time of the attacks. While living there with his girlfriend and now wife, Allison, he photographed this series of photos using box cameras he purchased that morning at the corner bodega. Chad currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has just completed […]
This photo was taken from the roof of either 21 or 41 Astor Place. The Christadora House, at Avenue B and 9th Street, overlooking Tompkins Square Park, is visible in the upper left. At the time of this photo, the high-rise former Settlement House was still abandoned.
Love Saves the Day was a beloved neighborhood vintage clothing and bric-a-brac shop at the corner of East 7th Street and Second Avenue. On March 26th, 2015 an illegal tap in the gas main at 121 Second Avenue resulted in an a explosion and fire that killed two people and destroyed 191, 121 and 123 […]
Photographer Howard Bennett met couple Joe and Bambi as they hung out on the stoop of 79 St Marks Place which was just west of 1st Ave and abandoned at the time.
John Spacely was the star of an indie film titled “Gringo: Story of a Junkie” somewhat based on his own life story. As a promotion, the film’s director, Lech Kowalski, hired artist Art Guerra to create a mural above a storefront just east of 3rd Ave on St Marks Place. For years it’s imposing presence […]
Photographer Howard Bennett met couple Joe and Bambi as they hung out on the stoop of 79 St Marks Place which was just west of 1st Ave and abandoned at the time.
Crazy Dave was one of the many punk kids that regularly hung out on St. Marks Place.
The Saint George Ukrainian Festival is held annually in May in front of St. George Ukrainian Church on East 7th Street between 2nd Avenue and Taras Shevchenko Place.
Harry Bohrer ran Bohrer’s, a women’s clothing store on 1st Ave between St. Marks Place and East 9th St. His brother ran a similar shop in the Bronx.
Gem Spa was located on the corner of 2nd Avenue and St. Marks Place for over 100 years. Read more about its history here.
Life Cafe was where Jonathan Larson wrote parts of Rent. It was also featured in several scenes. It closed in 2011 after thirty years. Read more about Larson and Rent here.
A number of sites around the East Village played a role in the development of Hip-Hop, explore our Hip-Hop map for more information.
Some of Keith Haring’s earliest work were his stencils found on the sidewalks of New York. “Clones Go Home” was his effort to bring attention to the gentrification of the East Village in the early 1980s, like this one on Astor Place.
The filming of the Rolling Stones’ Waiting on a Friend video was done outside and inside St. Marks Bar & Grill. Bennet was working there at the time, which resulted in him being in the video.
The filming of the Rolling Stones’ Waiting on a Friend video was done outside and inside St. Marks Bar & Grill. Bennet was working there at the time, which resulted in him being in the video.
