| DATES |
EVENTS |
| 1924 |
WNYC makes its first official broadcast |
| 1941 |
WNYC is the first radio station in the US
to announce the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1947 |
Judith Malina and Julian Beck found The Living Theatre |
| 1952 |
John Cage composes 4'33" |
| 1954 |
Joseph Papp founds the Public Theater, then called the Shakespeare Workshop |
| 1955 |
Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, and Norman Mailer found The Village Voice |
| 1956 |
Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl and Other Poems |
| 1957 |
Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road |
| 1959 |
William S. Burroughs publishes Naked Lunch |
| 1961 |
Bob Dylan moves to New York and begins playing
Greenwich Village clubs |
| 1964 |
Terry Riley completes In C |
| 1966 |
The Poetry Project founded at St. Mark's Church |
| 1967 |
Andy Warhol moves the Factory studio to the Decker Building
at 33 Union Square West |
| 1967 |
The Velvet Underground releases The Velvet Underground and Nico |
| 1968 |
The Fillmore East opens on Second Avenue |
| Meredith Monk founds The House Foundation |
| 1971 |
The Fillmore East closes |
| The Kitchen founded in Greenwich Village |
| 1972 |
Film Forum moves downtown under director Karen Cooper |
| 1973 |
CBGB & OMFUG opens at 315 Bowery |
| John Cale releases Paris 1919 |
| SoHo Weekly News founded |
| 1974 |
The Ramones make their CBGB debut |
| Miguel Pinero's Short Eyes premieres at
the Public Theater |
| Television begins a long-term weekly residency
at CBGB |
| The Bottom Line opens at 15 West Fourth
Street |
| Philip Glass completes Music in Twelve Parts |
| 1975 |
Patti Smith releases Horses |
| John Holmstrom, Ged Dunn, and Legs
McNeil found Punk Magazine |
Anthology Film Archives opens, with Jonas Mekas as director |
| 1976 |
Blondie releases Blondie |
| 1977 |
Richard Hell and the Voidoids release Blank
Generation |
| 1978 |
The cable access show TV Party is launched by Glenn O'Brien
and runs until 1982 |
| The Mudd Club opens in Tribeca |
| 1979 |
Julian Schnabel's first solo show opens at
the Mary Boone Gallery |
| 1980 |
CMJ Music Marathon founded |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, at 17, leaves his family home in Brooklyn for the
East Village |
The Nuyorican Poets Café moves into its 236 East 3rd Street space |
| 1981 |
Laurie Anderson releases the single "O
Superman" |
| 1982 |
New Sounds debuts |
| 1983 |
Talking Heads release Speaking in Tongues |
| 1984 |
Jim Jarmusch releases Stranger than Paradise |
| 1985 |
The Leonard Lopate Show debuts |
| John Zorn releases The Big Gundown: John
Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone |
| 1986 |
Nan Goldin publishes The Ballad of Sexual Dependency |
| 1987 |
Bang on a Can founded |
| The Knitting Factory opens in its original
Houston Street location |
| 1988 |
Sonic Youth releases Daydream Nation |
| 1989 |
The first Angelika Film Center opens at Houston and Mercer |
| The Brian Lehrer Show debuts as On the Line |
| 1991 |
Blue Man Group's Tubes opens at the Astor Place Theatre |
| 1992 |
Fez Under Time Cafe opens at 380 Lafayette
Street |
| 1994 |
Stomp opens at the Orpheum Theatre |
| 1995 |
Larry Clark releases Kids |
| 1996 |
Rent begins its off-Broadway run at the New York Theatre Workshop |
| 1997 |
FringeNYC festival founded |
The Museum of Jewish Heritage opens in Battery Park City |
| 1998 |
Tonic opens |
| 2001 |
September 11th |
| 2002 |
River to River Festival founded |
| Tribeca Film Festival founded |
| Soundcheck debuts |
| Pianos opens at 158 Ludlow Street |
| 2003 |
Howl Festival founded |
East Village Radio opens its storefront studio at 21 First Avenue |
| The Living Room opens its 154 Ludlow Street
location |
| 2004 |
City officials select the Signature Theater Company, the Joyce
Theater, the Freedom Center and the Drawing Center as cultural anchors for
the World Trade Center site |
| The Bottom Line closes |
| 2005 |
Studio 360 and On the Media win Peabody Awards,
Radio Lab is officially launched |
The IFC Center opens on the former site of the Waverly Theater |
Cake Shop opens at 152 Ludlow Street |
| Fez closes |
| 2006 |
CBGB closes |
| 2007 |
Tonic closes |
| 2008 |
WNYC moves from the New York Municipal Building to 160 Varick Street |
| Steve Reich wins the Pulitzer Prize for
music |
| (le) poisson rouge opens at 158 Bleecker |
| 2009 |
Michael Dorf opens City Winery at 155 Varick
Street |
 WNYC
opens the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space |
