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3 unusual facts about East Village


Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble

Performances during the past three seasons have taken place in the East Village at Theatre 80 St. Mark's and The East 13th Street Theatre.

Gay Village, Montreal

After living in New York City, it was his intention to create a strong vibrant gay community similar to the East Village in New York.

The Possession of Joel Delaney

In one session, Erika asks why someone from such an affluent background would want to live in the East Village.


Charles Gwathmey

Gwathmey's firm designed the Museum Of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Florida in 1995, and the Astor Place Tower, a 21-story condominium project in Manhattan's East Village, in 2005.

Eighth Street Crosstown Line

The Eighth Street Crosstown Line is a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, United States, running mostly along Eighth Street, Ninth Street, Tenth Street, and Christopher Street through the West Village, Greenwich Village, and East Village.

Fran Lebowitz

An automobile enthusiast, Lebowitz owns and drives a vintage pearl-gray 1979 Checker Marathon, which she keeps in a high-end garage in the East Village in Manhattan.

Ground Zero Gallery

Ground Zero Gallery was an art gallery formed in the East Village / Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York in the summer of 1983 as a vehicle for the partnership of artist James Romberger and his wife Marguerite Van Cook.

Joseph Troski

By the age of 18, Troski began performing in clubs and restaurants throughout NYC's East Village and Brooklyn such as CBGB.

Malasaña

Centred around Plaza del Dos de Mayo, it is reminiscent of Camden Town in London, the East Village in New York City, Baixa do Porto in Oporto, however despite its similarities, Malasaña is a distinct neighbourhood.

My Comrade

It was very popular among the underground queer scene of New York City, and is still considered by many a great embodiment of Manhattan Lower East Side’s and East Village’s LGBT culture of the period.

NY-LON

The scenes in New York City were filmed in the neighborhoods of the Lower East Side and East Village.

Poetry Project

The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 in the East Village of Manhattan by the poet and translator Paul Blackburn, it has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetries for over four decades.

Solon Borglum

Two of Borglum's sculptures, Inspiration and Aspiration, which depict Native American men, stand in the front courtyard of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, flanking the front gate.

The Joshua Light Show

It was renowned for its psychedelic art and served as a lighting backdrop behind many live band performances at the Fillmore East in the East Village area of Manhattan and throughout the New York City suburbs from Connecticut to New Jersey during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Strong Box

The exterior of the apartment of Elaine's secretive new boyfriend is actually located in Manhattan's East Village at 4 St. Mark's Place.

Visalia Heights, Visalia, California

Visalia Heights is bordered by the Oval Park on the north, the East Village on the north-east, Santa Fe Street on the east, Downtown Visalia on the south, Highland Park on the west, and the West Village on the north-west.

Like the Oval Park proper, it is known for its odd intersections with the diagonal streets of the East Village and West Village.


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Adrianne Wortzel

The installation took Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA program and embodied it in physical robot's form installed in East Village in New York.

August Strindberg Repertory Theatre

The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre became the resident company at the Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City's East Village when it transferred its first production, Strindberg's Playing with Fire (co-produced by the Negro Ensemble Company), there in June 2012 after an initial run at the New School's theater in the West Village.

Byzar

Adams played guitar in an experimental rock trio called S*A*M, worked as an engineer in a hip-hop & dancehall studio called "Midimation" with artists such as Mikey Dread and KRS-One, and co-hosted a weekly event called "The Abstrakt Lounge" featuring Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky at the "3 of Cups" basement lounge in New York's East Village in 1993.

Chauga River

The Chauga River's source is the confluence of Village Creek and East Village Creek about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Mountain Rest, South Carolina, in the Andrew Pickens Ranger District of the Sumter National Forest.

Daniel Rakowitz

In 1989, he walked around the East Village around Tompkins Square Park bragging to some of the people he believed were his disciples that he had killed his roommate and girlfriend, Monika Beerle, a Swiss student at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and a dancer at Billy's Topless.

Gargoyle Mechanique

Many well known East Village performers, including Roger Manning, Fly (artist), Lach, Paleface, John S. Hall, and Brenda Kahn were regulars at this Sunday night event.

Hinton-on-the-Green

The River Isbourne valley divides Hinton into the "East Village", near to the church, and the "West Village".

Jennifer jazz

Closely associated with the eighties East Village art scene, she was the lead singer and drummer for punk group the Guerilla Girls as well as Pleasure, an early electronica, dub and free jazz influenced band that featured Felice Rosser, Danny Hamilton, Richard Cleves, Martin Wheeler, Jemeel Moondoc and Daniel Carter.

Jonny McGovern Presents: This is NYC, Bitch! The East Village Mixtape

The East Village Mixtape is an album by singer/comedian Jonny McGovern (a.k.a. "The Gay Pimp").

La Mama

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in East Village, Manhattan, New York City, founded 1961

New York's 29th State Senate district

District 29 stretches along Manhattan's West Side from 85th Street to Canal Street, and includes the following neighborhoods: Upper West Side, Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and part of the East Side, including the East Village, Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village and Waterside Plaza.

Peter Campus

He worked with Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini at the Black Gate Theatre in East Village, New York.

Sherrie Levine

Other appropriation artists such as Louise Lawler, Vikky Alexander, Barbara Kruger and Mike Bidlo all came into prominence in New York’s East Village in the 1980s.