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In November 2009, Poll registered a backup name with New York State: "Tavern in the Park." [20] In March 2010, Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ruled that the trade name was owned by the City of New York and that Warner LeRoy had trademarked the name fraudulently in 1981. She wrote: "Because the undisputed facts show that the city established and ...
Critics from The New York Times have given The Odeon a full review in 1980, [16] 1986, [17] 1989, [18] and 2016. [2] Moira Hodgson, the first critic to review the restaurant for The New York Times, in 1980, praised chef Patrick Clark's cooking and the service. [16] Hodgson also noted the clientele, referring to them as "pillars of the art world ...
The Merchants' Exchange Building served as New York City's custom house before the Alexander Hamilton Custom House was built. The New York Custom House had occupied several sites in Lower Manhattan before the Alexander Hamilton Custom House was built. [7] [76] The first such house was established in 1790 at South William Street. [79]
Fraunces Tavern is a museum and restaurant in New York City, situated at 54 Pearl Street at the corner of Broad Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.The location played a prominent role in history before, during, and after the American Revolution.
[10] [11] Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. [12] [13] Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia ...
The following January, a reporter for New York magazine referred to it as "New York's hottest downtown eating spot". [5] Florent was a hub of gay New York. Morellet was diagnosed HIV positive in 1987 and used to post his T-cell count on the restaurant's wall menu along with the daily specials. [4] It attracted a highly eclectic clientele.
Cafe Wha? is a music club at the corner of MacDougal Street and Minetta Lane in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.The club is important in the history of rock and folk music, having presented numerous musicians and comedians early on in their careers, including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, the Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys ...
The early days saw a number of poetry readings and acoustic sessions. One group that began to attract a wider audience on Saturday nights was The Clumsy Cabaret, [4] a late-night gathering that drew musicians (including many of New York's anti-folk scene) after gigs. Acoustic music sessions took place in a spontaneous and creative atmosphere.