East Village Building Blocks

Guided Tour : Music Venues

From 19th-century concert halls to punk palaces of the 1970s, various music scenes found their start in the East Village. The neighborhood attracted countless performers, writers, artists, and thinkers, intermingling and inspiring radical new ideas. Some venues, like CBGB and Webster Hall, remain familiar names with visible connections to their past. Others, like the Tin Palace and Stuyvesant Casino/Ukrainian National Home, are hardly recognizable today as former havens of jazz. This tour reminds us how many legendary musicians rose to fame on these humble streets.

125 East 11th Street; 119-125 East 11 Street

Block 556-2, Lot 68

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Ballinger, Charles Goldstein, Charles Rentz, commercial, Danzig, Dolly!, Dorothy Day, Elvis Presley, Emma Goldman, Fiddler on the Roof, Frank Sinatra, Guns N’ Roses, Harry Belafonte, Hello, Iggy Pop, Individual Landmark, Julie Andrews, KISS, LGBTQ, Madonna, masquerade balls, music venue, New York City Landmark, Perry Como, Prince, punk, Queen Anne, Renaissance Revival, ric Clapton, Samuel Gompers, speakeasy, Sting, The Masses, The Ritz, Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, Webster Hall

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