Every first Thursday of the month (through June), MoMA stays open a bit late, opens up a cash bar, serves patrons a prix-fixe meal, and invites a deejay over. Tonight that deejay is Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, who will be spinning from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (more details here). Bonus: Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre will also be on hand—it was just announced that she'll be collaborating with Horovitz on a Runaways tribute.
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Results tagged “1986”
Tonight: A Lone Beastie Boy Will DJ At MoMA, 1986: The Beastie Boys Discuss Debut Album
Video: Times Square Subway, 1986
We've looked back at Times Square in 1986 before, but that was above ground... what was happening underneath all the action? One tourist from the time just uploaded his 25 year old footage to YouTube, saying while on a visit he "was going in the underground at 43nd St & Times Square" to film. He recently "opened my archive once again with the original film and composed it with the original stereo sound to this over 10 minutes long 'directors cut' of all scenes I filmed at this day in June 1986. Enjoy it!"
Flashback: Times Square, 1986
In July of 1986—eight years before Rudolph Giuliani took over as the city's Mayor—LIFE magazine visually documented Times Square, and its bevy of XXX-rated establishments. Here's what that summer in the Crossroads of the World looked like. An article in City Journal once noted that many are nostalgic for this old Times Square, because it "provided a harmless, playful way to subvert stuffy bourgeois morality." They counter that nostalgic longing, however, with the fact that in 1960 the New York Times was calling 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth the "worst block in the city." Two years before these photos were taken there were 2,300 crimes on the block, with 20% of them being serious felonies. Could there ever have been a happy median between murder and Mickey Mouse?
Speaking Ill of the Dead
After the prison-yard murder of Larry Davis in upstate New York, most City papers noted his infamy and folk- or anti-hero status, but for the most part were content to portray him as a vicious thug, murderer, and all-around lowlife. Davis was shanked multiple times by another inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster county New York.
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