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Eddie Boros' Tower of Toys, 6th St. and Avenue B (2008) --- I was walking along East Second Street in the East Village when I saw a man brushing out his long curly hair as he walked toward me. He stopped, pulled a clump of hair from the brush and let it go in the breeze. Not a huge fan [...]
My friend Flip didn’t read, he told me, because he was all about music. Slick, shiny, high-gloss music. Nothing got him more excited than discussing “production values.” He’d play dance remixes for me and practically conduct them as some new version of an awful song stomped and restomped its way through a cathedral-like reverb chamber for ten endless minutes, pointing [...]
Everyone on the scene thought operating an after-hours club on top of a 14th Street theater was a good idea and Arthur Weinstein opened the Jefferson on New Year's Eve 1980. During the week the loft was home to Arthur, his wife, daughter, and best friend, Scottie. On the weekend hundreds of revelers unwilling to call it a night crowded [...]
