The Downtown Pop Underground

Bobern Bar and Grill

42 W 28th St, New York, NY 10001

40.745520

-73.989800

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Broadway Central Hotel

673 Broadway, New York, NY

40.727900

-73.995290

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CBGB

315 Bowery, New York, NY 10003

40.725130

-73.991880

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Cedar Tavern

85 University Pl, New York, NY 10003

40.733560

-73.993080

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Club 82

82 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003

40.726320

-73.989780

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Five Spot Café

2 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003

40.729340

-73.989790

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Lenny's Hideaway

183 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

40.734390

-74.002700

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Max's Kansas City

213 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10003

40.736870

-73.988310

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Mercer Arts Center

240 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012

40.727900

-73.995490

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Mona's Royal Roost

28 Cornelia St, New York, NY 10014

40.731170

-74.002330

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Mother's

267 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011

40.745240

-73.997760

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Ninth Circle

169 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

40.734350

-74.002430

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Old Reliable Theatre Tavern

231 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009

40.722360

-73.981670

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Phebe's

361 Bowery, New York, NY 10003

40.726800

-73.991290

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San Remo

93 Macdougal St, New York, NY 10012

40.729410

-74.001160

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Slugger Ann's

192 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003

40.731010

-73.985500

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Stonewall Inn

53 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014

40.733810

-74.002160

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The Cheetah

Broadway & West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019

40.763380

-73.982880

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The Dom

23 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003

40.729190

-73.988530

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Trude Heller's

418 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011

40.734010

-73.999020

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Village Gate

185 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012

40.728100

-73.999980

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White Horse Tavern

567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014

40.735660

-74.006190

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Bobern Bar and Grill

42 W 28th St, New York, NY 10001

Bobern Bar and Grill, on West Twenty-Eighth Street, was named after its owners, Bob and Ernie, and it was one of the small venues where the Stilettoes performed.

Broadway Central Hotel

673 Broadway, New York, NY

The Broadway Central Hotel (which housed Art Bar in its basement) was attached to the neighboring Mercer Art Center, which was condemned after the hotel collapsed on August 3, 1973.

CBGB

315 Bowery, New York, NY 10003

– CBGB had been around since 1969 in an earlier incarnation, Hilly’s on the Bowery, which was named after owner Hilly Kristal; in late 1973, he changed the name to Country, BlueGrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gourmandizers—which was shortened to CBGB-OMFUG.

Cedar Tavern

85 University Pl, New York, NY 10003

The Cedar Tavern was a Village hangout where many Abstract-Expressionist painters and other bohemians frequented.

Club 82

82 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003

During the early 1950s and 1960s, when it was known as the 82 Club, this Lower East Side venue had been one of the premier venues for drag queens, though by the early 1970s it had rechristened itself Club 82 and operated as afterhours disco and underground rock club.

Five Spot Café

2 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003

The Five Spot Café, where many jazz legends performed, was frequented by Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, and John Vaccaro of the Play-House of the Ridiculous.

Lenny's Hideaway

183 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

Lenny’s Hideaway, on West Tenth and Seventh Avenue, was one of the bars where Andy Warhol circulated among artists, poets, theater people, and gay crowds.

Max's Kansas City

213 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10003

Across Union Square Park from the second Factory location was a restaurant and bar named Max’s Kansas City, one of Andy Warhol’s regular haunts even before the move.

Mercer Arts Center

240 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012

Before the Mercer Arts Center collapsed in 1973, it was where underground theater, glam rock, video art, and performance art briefly intersected in the early 1970s—planting the seeds of what would become known as “punk.”

Mona's Royal Roost

28 Cornelia St, New York, NY 10014

Mona’s Royal Roost was a quintessentially quaint Greenwich Village cocktail bar run by two older women located across the street from Caffe Cino, where the Cino crowd would sometimes sneak away for a drink between shows.

Mother's

267 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011

Early punk bands bounced back and forth between CBGB and Max’s, as well as lesser known venues like Mother’s—a gay bar near the Chelsea Hotel where Suicide, the Fast, Ramones, and Blondie played.

Ninth Circle

169 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

Before opening Max’s Kansas City, Mickey Ruskin managed the Ninth Circle in Greenwich Village (which in the 1970s and 1980s transformed into a well-known gay hustler bar).

Old Reliable Theatre Tavern

231 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009

Norman Hartman’s Old Reliable Theatre Tavern was an old-school bar was located on Third Street between Avenues B and C, a volatile neighborhood (playwright Jeannine O’Reilly used to quip, “The way to get to the Old Reliable is to turn left at the burning car”).

Phebe's

361 Bowery, New York, NY 10003

Phebe’s—located on East Fourth and Bowery, halfway between CBGB and La MaMa—was known as the “Sardi’s of Off-Off-Broadway” (the Times Square hotspot Sardi’s drew an uptown Broadway crowd).

San Remo

93 Macdougal St, New York, NY 10012

The San Remo was another regular stop on the downtown circuit—a traditional village tavern on MacDougal Street and Bleecker with pressed-tin ceilings and wooden walls.

Slugger Ann's

192 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003

Slugger Ann’s was a dimly lit Lower East Side corner bar on Second Avenue (by East Twelfth Street) that was run by Jackie Curtis’s grandmother, who the bar was named after; Jackie sometimes crashed in the apartment behind the bar.

Stonewall Inn

53 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014

A mafia-run gay bar near Christopher Street, Stonewall became the site of the first major rebellion against police harassment in 1969—which helped spark the gay liberation movement.

The Cheetah

Broadway & West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019

The Cheetah was a Midtown discothèque that also hosted a production of Hair before it opened on Broadway in the spring of 1968.

The Dom

23 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003

The Dom was a former Polish wedding and social hall on St. Mark’s Place that became a popular bar where bohemians congregated; it was at the Dom where Ed Sanders suggested to Tuli Kupferberg that they should form the Fugs, and the Velvet Underground performed as part of Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

Trude Heller's

418 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011

Joshua Light Show founder Joshua White designed lighting at Trude Heller’s and other discothèques in the mid-1960s, where he began to develop techniques that he refined at the Fillmore East.

Village Gate

185 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012

The Village Gate, a popular venue where jazz artists like Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Cannonball Adderley played, also employed Theatre Genesis’s Ralph Cook and Sam Shepard.

White Horse Tavern

567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014

Located on Hudson Street and West Eleventh, the White Horse was primarily a workingman’s tavern until Dylan Thomas and other writers began going there in the 1950s.