{"id":161498,"date":"2015-03-29T01:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T01:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/29\/new-york-city-after-dark\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T01:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T01:50:41","slug":"new-york-city-after-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/29\/new-york-city-after-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City, after dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

jkottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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From New York Magazine, a big feature on NYC after midnight<\/a>. Several people shared their stories, including Bebe Buell:<\/p>\n

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In 1974, I was on Hudson and Horatio \u2014 it was still pretty shady over there at the time – and I could not get a cab. This big giant Cadillac pulls up, and a guy and a girl were in it. It was obviously a pimp and his girl. And the guy goes, \u201cMy name is Magic. Do you need a ride?\u201d Who in their right mind would get in that car? But I did. His name was Magic, her name was Angel, and it was like a scene out of a Scorsese movie. I just remember the tranny girls yelling, \u201cYou go, girl!\u201d They thought I had gotten a trick or something. I don\u2019t know what made me think it was going to be okay. Angel let me know, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, honey, we\u2019re not serial killers.\u201d And for some godforsaken reason, I believed them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Alec Baldwin, who has always been interested in Saturday Night Live:<\/p>\n

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I was told that there was a place called Louis\u2019s Toy Bar on the Upper East Side. And it was this narrow sliver of a shop that obviously had sold antique clothes or something. And this guy Louis who owned it would put out plates of, like, Velveeta cheese and crackers and very modest kinds of canapes. I was told, back then, that all the cast of the original Saturday Night Live went there after the show; this was their haunt, this was their after-party-after-party Copacabana. And I went there countless times, eating Velveeta cheese, waiting for them, and they never came. They never showed up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Lydia Lunch:<\/p>\n

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I made money by standing on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 8th Street, shaking down women with children, saying I worked for the Cancer Foundation, until I got $10. I could live on that. The rent at my apartment on 12th Street between A and B was $75 a month.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Dr. Jason D\u2019Amore, formerly a resident at Bellvue:<\/p>\n

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One night, we got this guy in who was riding his Harley down the FDR at high speed, and he got run over by a semi, and he comes in and is very close to death. [\u2026] So this guy, he was covered head-to-toe in iron crosses and swastikas and white-power tattoos. I\u2019m looking around, and I\u2019m D\u2019Amore, and the ortho guy was Schwarzbaum, and we had to call neurosurgery, and that was Goldberg, and we intubated him and we got him stabilized and into the operating room, and he\u2019s totally sedated, and I leaned down and said, \u201cDude, I just wanted you to know a bunch of Jews just saved your ass.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Colin Quinn:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s easier to be nostalgic now. It\u2019s easier to look at it now and say, \u201cOh, I miss Taxi Driver.\u201d Suddenly, we\u2019re all like French film students who romanticize New York, even though when you lived it, it was bad. There were so many heroin dealers. If you were on, like, Avenue B and C, and somebody goes, \u201cYou want heroin?\u201d and you said no, they\u2019d get mad at you, like you were going browsing in a store and not buying anything. \u201cYou\u2019re wasting our time! Trying to make money here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Alexis Swerdloff:<\/p>\n

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The hand-delivered invite was a velvet-wrapped VHS tape. Five minutes and 42 seconds long, the video had Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, Ananda Lewis, Todd Oldham, Veronica Webb, Ben Stiller, Pauly Shore, Derek Jeter, and dozens of other \u201990s luminaries hyping Puff Daddy\u2019s 29th-birthday party on November 4, 1998. Chris Rock said to leave your posse at home, Magic Johnson instructed guests to arrive at 10 p.m. on the dot, and Will Smith directed people to a 212 number in order to RSVP for the secret location. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be all that,\u201d cooed Tyra Banks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And there\u2019s so much more\u2026go read the whole thing. The photos are great too. Look for the one with Edith Piaf singing at a club; it\u2019s just her in 1950 on a tiny stage with no microphone singing to people while they eat dinner. Man, if I had a time machine\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jkottke: From New York Magazine, a big feature on NYC after midnight. Several people shared their stories, including Bebe Buell: In 1974, I was on Hudson and Horatio \u2014 it was still pretty shady over there at the time – and I could not get a cab. This big giant Cadillac pulls up, and a … <\/p>\n

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