Vol. 1, No.1, October 2015

It all happened at ST Marks Place: Abbie Hoffman invented the Yippies at No. 30; Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, and Jimi Hendrix performed at the experimental nightclub Electric Circus. Gal lery 51X backed eighties-era graffiti artists like Keith Harlng and Basquiat. At No. 77 Leon Trotsky edited the dissident newspaper Novy Mir in 1917. Years later in the same building, the poet W.H. Auden and the artist Larry Rivers lived below. At the Holiday Coctail Lounge, Alan Ginsberg drank. Madonna was there, These are just a few of the characters that haunt

Haiku - Poem by Allen Ginsberg

Drinking my teaWithout sugar- No difference.

The sparrow shitsupside down - ah! my brain & eggs

Mayan head in a Pacific driftwood bole- Someday I'll live in N.Y.

Looking over my shoulder my behind was covered with cherry blossoms.

Winter HaikuI didn't know the names of the flowers- now my garden is gone.

I slapped the mosquitoand missed.What made me do that?

Reading haikuI am unhappy,longing for the Nameless.

A frog floating in the drugstore jar:summer rain on grey pavements.(after Shiki)

On the porchin my shorts;auto lights in the rain.

Another yearhas past - the worldis no different.

By 1963, Cue's New York: A Leisurely Guide

to Manhattan, was already sending folks to

the East Village for its cafes, galleries, and

charming Beatniks—people like Jack Kerouac,

William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg,

a longtime area resident and denizen of

Gem Spa at the corner of St. Marks and

Second Avenue. Despite Ginsberg's eventual

place among the first ranks of American

poets, the most influential poet to live in

the East Village at the time wasn't a Beat at

all—it was W.H. Auden, who resided at 77

St. Marks (former home of Trotsky's Novy

Mir), drank copious amount of booze at the

Holiday Cocktail Lounge next door at No.

75, and went to the bathroom at the liquor

store on the corner because his apartment

apparently had no facilities.

Alan Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky on St Marks. Abbie Hoffman Yippie Button. Upper left hand corner the newstand Gems Spa.

ST. MARKS BACK IN THE DAY

If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Hail, floppy-slippered bear of St. Mark’s Place!

I seem to glimpse your cheesy, limestone face where you loom at a

dirty window, gin in paw, on a hot evening during the great Cold War.

The young Trotsky wrote and printed Novy Mir in the basement, now a xerox

joint; but your own permanent revolution is the resilient spirit of the risen Christ,

your multicultural heaven illuminating the new world we inherit, redeeming by

intellectual grace and merit the Unaufgeklärten in the boondocks, even. Joseph

the druggist, Abe in the liquor store, Maurice the mailman, Elizabeth Mayer

and Marianne Moore are the happier for your grumpy love; for, funny in Hobbit

T-shirt and dubious Levi’s, you were a victim of nothing but irony, Gramsci’s new

disease of the interregnum”; and to castration–and-death phone-threats replied

without hesitation: “I think you’ve the wrong number”. Lord of martini and

clerihew, who saw Rome and the other empires fall, who were so insistent on

your privacy, who so valued personal responsibility, what would you make now

of the retentive pax Americana, our world of internet and fax, a still-thriving

military-industrial complex, situational ethics, exonerative 12-step programs,

health fascism, critical theory and ‘smart’ bombs? While we hole up in our

bath-houses and catacombs, votaries of Eros if not always of Aphrodite,

I see you ride at rush-hour with your rich pity and self-contempt an uptown train

packed to the doors with “aristocratic Negro faces”, not like ours, or reciting

‘The Unknown Citizens’ at the ‘Y’. When will she – Gaia, Clio – send downpours to

silence the “gnostic chirrup” of her calumniators? When will we hear once more

the pure voice of elation raised in the nightwood of known symbol and allusion?

Oh, far from Mother, in the unmarried city, you contemplate a new ode to

Euphrosyne, goddess of banquets; and in the darkest hours of holocaust

and apocalypse, cheap music and singles bars, you remind us of what the

examined life involves – for what you teach is the courage to be ourselves,

however ridiculous; and if you were often silly or too “prone to hold

forth”, you prescribe a cure for our civilization and its discontents

based upon agapé, Baroque opera, common sense and the creative

impulse that brought us here, sustaining us now as we face a more

boring future.

© 1995, Derek Mahon From: Collected Poems Publisher: The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, 1999

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LED ZEPPELIN’S “PHYSICAL GRAFFITI” ALBUM COVERLed Zeppelin’s “Physical Graffiti” album cover is a photograph of a New York City tenement block located at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place in the East Village.

REMARKABLE ST. MARKS

In 1966, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey performed here with The Velvet Underground. Using light shows to create a cool vibe. The club‘s name changed to The Electric Circus, where many famous bands played. The club closed after a small bomb injured several people there in 1970.

You can turn this world aroundAnd bring back all of those happy daysPut your trouble downIt's time to celebrateLet love shineAnd we will findA way to come togetherAnd make things betterWe need a holidayIf we took a holidayTook some time to celebrateJust one day out of lifeIt would beIt would be so nice

Holiday, celebrateHoliday, celebrate

If we took a holidayTook some time to celebrateJust one day out of lifeIt would beIt would be so nice

HOLIDAYCELEBRATE HOLIDAY, CELEBRATE

If we took a holidayTook some time to celebrateJust one day out of lifeIt would beIt would be so niceEverybody spread the wordWe're gonna have a celebrationAll across the worldIn every nationIt's time for the good timesForget about the bad timesOne day to come togetherTo release the pressureWe need a holidayIf we took a holidayTook some time to celebrateJust one day out of lifeIt would beIt would be so nice

WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT ST MARKS PLACE? St. Marks Place is the hippest street in

America. It has always been a home for misfits,

and there are still kids flocking here from all over

the city, and the world. Girls and Broad City both

prominently featured the street in 2015. For a century

it has been where young people—revolutionaries in

the teens, Beats in the fifties, punks in the seventies

—have gone to feel free and find each other.

In the 1960s, it was the east coast center for hippie

culture. The East Village had The Electric Circus,

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The Dom, and The Fillmore East. American punk was born here: the NY Dolls,

the Ramones, Blondie. The hardcore kids and Beastie Boys hung out here in

the eighties. And now you can sing all those bands’ songs at the East Village’s

many karaoke bars.

WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK? I grew up on the street. My parents

have lived there since 1973 and I was

born in 1976. I got tired of people

saying about my home street,

“ That place used to be something.

It’s dead now.” Sometimes the time period they said was the best was when

I was a kid, and I thought, Really? The eighties in the East Village sort of sucked

if you were in elementary school. In the course of three years of research,

I learned that people have always said St. Marks was dead. One thing you hear

a lot about the street is: “I was there when it was cool. It’s over now.” People

said that in the fifties about the thirties, and in the eighties about the sixties.

Whenever people say that to me I ask them to tell me the last time they stayed

out until super late on St. Marks Place. I did recently and it was packed with

young people having the time of their lives. I’m very suspicious of anyone who

identifies the best era in a place’s history as coinciding precisely with when they

were sixteen.

1. Jean-Michel Basquiat dated Madonna in the early ‘80s. 2. Basquiat Poster for 51X Gallery, the famous St. Marks hub for graffiti artists. 3. St Marks tattoo artist. 4. Keith Haring in the subway. 5. Larry Rivers in his studio. 6. St Marks theatre, a vital destination for performers of all kinds.

ARTISTIC ST. MARKS

Dressed in black lace and red lipstick,and Suzanne looking just like Minnie Mouse,we'd walk past Houston Streetto get her drugsand then back to her apartmentthat smelled of prunes and oil paintwhere she'd written,"She makes hungry, where most she satisfies,"on the wall above her bed. We would listen to Peggy Lee sing Feverand drink gold apple juicefrom a refrigerator coveredin Basquiat's doodles - (one dayshe'd sell it at Christiesfor five thousand dollars.)Suzanne says she found Jean-Michelon a bench in Washington Square Park. Another one she lost and lovedwas Michael Stewartkilled by seven policemenfor painting graffiti in a subway station.I call her "widow".She can talk and talk about her stray, small dark boyswho touched the night in her hair. Her hands rarely openbut stay curled in small fists,hiding phone numberswritten in black ink along her fingers.Some of her clothesshe's never washedbecause they still carry the scentof some evening. When Suzanne cleans out her closetsshe gives me these clothes -sweaters that no longer matterfrom affairs that have passed,but still smell of wineand keep me dressedin other people's kisses. Jennifer Clement

WITH SUZANNE

HOLIDAY COCKTAIL MENU

VOL. NO.1

THE HOLIDAY COCKTAIL 13.Aylesbury Duck Vodka, Aromatique Amaro & fresh lemon

served one of three ways: - with sparkling wine in a cocktail glass

- with dry apple cider in a highball glass - with pilsner in a rocks glass

THE OCEAN CLUB 13.Santa Teresa 1796 Rum, Meletti Amaro, pineapple cordial & fresh lime

served over ice with an Ango float

DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE 14.Brooklyn Gin, a dash of Fernet Branca & fresh grapefruit juice

served tall with a smoked-salt rim and rosemary spear

LEAN ON SHEENA 14.Avua Amburana Cachaça, High West Double RyePear Liqueur cinnamon syrup & fresh lemon juice

served over ice with an arbitrary garnish

EVERLONG 13.Black Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky, Brenne Whiskey, Apple Brandy

Amaro Montenegro, Demerara Sugar & a twist or twoserved up with a word of encouragement

GONE CHO 14.Ilegal Joven Mezcal, fresh lime juice, peppered basil syrup

Orange Bitters & egg whiteserved up with health, wealth & happiness

WORDS OF STEEL 11.Ricard Anisette, Fino Sherry, Gran Marnier & Black Tea syrup

served up with a lemon twist and a song by Steve Perry (while supplies last)

JASPER'S OLD FASHIONED 12.Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, Gold Button Aromatic Bitters &

something sweet. served on a big rock with a surprise in the middle& an orange twist

LITTLE SHORTIES AKA COCKTAILS ON THE GUN ASK YOUR BARTENDER

HOLIDAY LONG ISLAND ICED TEA 7.English Breakfast-Infused Absolut Vodka, Beefeater Gin, Altos Tequila

White Rum, Cocktail & Sons Oleosacchrum garnished with a lemon wheel & a dash of nostalgia

aka Classic Cocktails aka drinks we love 13.

We love our crew. They're good people, great bartenders, and know their way around a drink

MICHAEL - PISCO SOUR Kappa Pisco, fresh lemon, Angostura, egg white & awesome

DANNY – OLD TOM COLLINS Spring 44 Old Tom Gin, fresh lemon juice & fizz

BARBARA – SAZERAC Whistlepig Rye Whiskey, Peychauds Bitters & an Absinthe rinse

ROB – NEW YORK SOUR Maker’s Mark Bourbon, fresh lemon,egg white & Claret

NAOMI – CORPSE REVIVER #1 Louis Royer Cognac, Dolin Dry Vermouth & Laird's Applejack

TRICKETT – BIJOU Aviation Gin, Antica Carpano Vermouth, Green Chartreuse & Orange Bitters

JOE – LION’S TAIL Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, All Spice Dram, fresh lime, Gomme Syrup & Angostura

BEKKA – VESPER Brooklyn Gin, Bootlegger Jersey Vodka & Lillet Blanc

ERIKA – MEXICAN FIRING SQUAD Suerte Blanco Tequila, fresh lime, Grenadine & Angostura

HARLEY – BOULEVARDIER Four Roses Bourbon, Campari & Dolin Sweet Vermouth

VINNY – NEGRONI Portobello Road Gin, Campari, Dolin Sweet Vermouth

FRANKY – CHET BAKER Owney’s Rum (Locally-sourced), Punt e Mes & Gold Button Bitters

CRISTIAN – EL DIABLO Altos Blanco Tequila, Crème de Cassis, Fresh Lime & Ginger beer

DUSTIN – JUNGLE BIRD Cruzan Blackstrap Rum, Campari, fresh lime & pineapple

ASHLEY – ROSITA

Tapatio Reposado Tequila, Sweet & Dry Vermouths, Campari & Angostura

REMEE – CHAMPS ELYSEESPierre Ferand 1840, Yellow Chartreuse, lemon juice

STAFF FAVORITES

WINE

By the Glass 10. If you’re sure you just want one...

GRENACHE BLANC / VIOGNIERFlying Solo 2014

GRENACHE NOIR / SYRAH Flying Solo 2014

ENRICO BRUT

HALF BOTTLEA bit more than two glasses.

Great wine & good value.

DRY RIESLING 17.Thirsty Owl 2013

CHIANTI CLASSICO 22.Carpinetto 2012

CARNEROS CHARDONNAY 30.SCHUG 2012

CHAPUY 30.

Brut

FULL BOTTLESPERRIER JOUET CHAMPAGNE 38.

HOLIDADES

COLDEST LEMONADE 5.

GRAPEFRUIT SMASH 5.

GINSBURG JAVA BLUE COFFEE THERMOS 5.

DRAFT BEER OLD SPECKLED HEN 7.

Bury, St Edmunds 4.5%

FOUNDER’S RED RYE IPA 6.Grand Rapids, MI 6.6%

BALLAST POINT SCULPIN IPA 6.San Diego, CA 7.0%

FRESH CUT PILSNER 6.Downington, PA 5.3%

NARRAGANSETT 5.

ORCHARD HILL CIDER 8. New Hampton, NY 7.25%

CANSKELSO INDUSTRIAL IPA 8.

Brooklyn, NY 10%

UFO WHEAT 6.Boston, MA 4.8%

MODELO ESPECIAL 5.Mexico City, MX 4.5%

ROLLING ROCK 5.

KRISTAL 500.

The first thing I looked for in my old garden wasThe Cherry Tree.

My old desk: the first thing I looked forin my house.

My early journal:the first thing I foundin my old desk.

My mother's ghost:the first thing I foundin the living room.

I quit shaving but the eyes that glanced at me remained in the mirror.

The madman emerges from the movies: the street at lunchtime.

Cities of boys are in their graves, and in this town...

Lying on my sidein the void: the breath in my nose.

On the fifteenth floorthe dog chews a bone - Screech of taxicabs.

A hard-on in NY, a boy in San Fransisco.

The moon over the roof, worms in the garden. I rent this house.

Allen Ginsberg

large-format cocktails aka cocktails for a crowd aka waitin' on a friend

These "set-ups" are inspired by the venerable New Orleans tradition of serving small bottles with weird

things accompanying them. Each serves 4+ people. You can build these cocktails yourself, or we can do it for you. And we're keeping the caps, so don't get any funny ideas

SAKE MARTINI SERVICE 37.Stolichnaya Vodka, Nigori Genshu Sake

Dolin Dry Vermouth & an airport bottle of Jagermeister.Served with Japanese plums, a bowl of edamame

& jalapeño-stuffed olives serves 2 - 3

OLD FASHIONED FOR FOUR 57.Prairie Reserve Bourbon served with big ice cubes,

sweet vermouth, cocktail sauce & a selection of garnishes Serves 4 - 6

MANHATTAN FOR FOUR 50.High West Double Rye served with big ice cubes,

sweet vermouth, cocktail sauce & a selection of garnishes Serves 4 - 6.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE 48.Choose two pints of the following with mixers & garnish

Bacardi Rum Jim Beam Bourbon

Absolut Vodka Beefeater Gin

Served with a can of soda, tonic or Coca Cola a box of animal crackers, SexyChips & a melange

of garnishes. Each set-up serves 5 - 7

HOLIDAY FOR A CROWD

BRANDY, ETC.Ferrand 1840 Cognac Louis Royer VSOP Cognac Lairds Bonded Apple Brandy Dows Fine Ruby Port

AMARO Amaro Montenegro AromatiqueCynar Frenet Branca Gran Classico Bitter LucanoMeletti 1870 Meletti Amaro VERMOUTH Carpano Antica Carpano Bianco Dolin DryDolin Rouge APERITIF Lillet Blanc Lillet Rosé Pernod Absinthe Ricard Pastis

LIQUEUR Aperol Benedictine Borghetti Café EspressoCampari Canton Ginger Cappelletti Chartreuse Green Chartreuse Yellow Cointreau Dolin GenepyFrangelico Grand Marnier Jagermeister Kahlua Lazzaroni Amaretto Luxardo Maraschino Mandarine Napoleon Mathilde Poire Pama Pomegranate Pimms Sambuca Castello Solbeso T. Fugit Crème de Cacao T. Fugit Crème de Menthe

LIQUOR CABINET VODKAAbsolut Absolut Citron Absolut Elyx Absolut Mandarin BootleggerCharbay Blood OrangeCharbay Pomegranate Ketel One Reyka Snow Leopard Tito’s

GINAviation Beefeater Bois Genever Botanist Islay Brooklyn Citadelle FordsJunipero New Amsterdam Perrys Tot Plymouth Sipsmith Sloe Gin Spring 44 Tanqueray

RUMBacardi 8 Bacardi Light Superior Barbancourt White Brugal Añejo Clément 10 Cruzan Black Strap Flor De CañaGosling Mount Gay Owneys Sailor Jerry Santa Teresa 1796

CACHAÇA & PISCOAvuá Prata AvuáAmburana Campo De Encanto Kappa

TEQUILAOlmeca Altos Blanco Siete Leguas Blanco Tromba Blanco Milagro Silver Suerte Blanco Olmeca Altos Reposado Ocho Reposado Tromba Reposado Casamigos Añejo Suerte Añejo

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MEZCALDel Maguey Tobalá Ilegal Joven

SCOTCH Auchentoshan Black Grouse Chivas Regal 12 Famous Grouse Genlivet 12 Hedonism Highland Park 15 Laphroig 10Port Charlotte

WHISK(E)YCanadian Club Charbay R5 High West RendezvousHigh West Son of Bourye Jameson Redbreast 12 Stranahan’s Tin CupTullamore Dew

RYEBulleit Rye High West Double RyeHudson Rye Michter’s Rye Mr Katz Rock & Rye Old Overholt Rye Redemption Barrel 7 Rye Redemption Rye Rittenhouse Rye Templeton Rye Whistlepig Rye Wild Turkey Rye 101

BOURBONAngels Envy Basil Haydens Breckenridge Bulleit Elijah Craig Four Roses Single BarrelHeavenly Hill Gold Jack Daniels Jefferson ReserveJim Beam Jim Beam Black Knob Creek Makers Mark Old Grand Dad Virgil Kaine GingerWild Turkey 101 Woodford Reserve

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