Category Archives: Nightlife

April 13, 1981 – The Ritz after the Jefferson Raid – Journal Entry

April 17, 2023 – 9:54 am

Paul Garcia, Arthur’s partner, at the Jefferson, said he was going to be at the Ritz tonight. I walked there at 10 expecting a no-show, but he was speaking with the owner at the downstairs bar. Jerry signaled the barman and said, “Give this man whatever he wants to drink. He had a rough night.” […]

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MEETING ARTHUR by Peter Nolan Smith

April 17, 2023 – 2:36 am

In the summer of 1979 I was going out with a blonde model from Buffalo. One night Lisa came back to my apartment on East 10th Street late. Her hair looked tousled by a hurricane and a button was missing from her shirt. I checked the clock on the wall. It was after 3am. Lisa […]

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April 12, 1981 – Booking after the Jefferson Raid – Journal Entry

April 13, 2023 – 7:42 pm

Manhattan’s Central Booking Early Sunday morning Our crew of ten from the Jefferson Our crime Serving alcohol after 4am. Photos by an old black turnkey. Empty our pockets. Keys, wallets et al. COs pushing us through a metal detector. Our after-hour crew shoved in a holding cell The clank of steel doors Everyone else a […]

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April 12, 1981 – The Jefferson Raid – East Village – Journal Entry

April 13, 2023 – 7:05 pm

After midnight above Jefferson Theater the exquisite wickedness of Arthur Weinstein’s apartment became a home away from home for hell-bent nightlifers raced at full-tilt to utter abandonment. I ran the door and had to refuse several unlikely party-goers. Something was not right about them. They looked like cops and one couple were too friendly, offering […]

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Tom Verlaine July 29, 1978 / Bottom Line

February 6, 2023 – 1:44 pm
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