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34-843: Eighth Street or 8th Street may refer to: Roads and bridges [ edit ] Eighth Street (Manhattan) , a street in Manhattan, New York City 8th Street East (Saskatoon) , a street in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Calle Ocho , a street in Little Havana, Miami Albertus L. Meyers Bridge , also known as the Eighth Street Bridge, in Allentown, Pennsylvania Eighth Street Bridge (Passaic River) Public transportation [ edit ] Eighth Street station (disambiguation) , train stations of

68-678: A "nerve center" of the city, and the Art Workers' Coalition had their offices above the store. Robert Mapplethorpe bought Patti Smith an egg cream there shortly after she moved to New York in 1967. In the late 1960s it was midway between two other iconic venues, the Fillmore East and the Electric Circus . The owner in 1971 was Irving Stein. That year Village Voice reported "A permanent cluster of junkies using its doorways and newspaper benches as home base hasn't helped business any" and

102-495: A building between Washington Square North, Fifth Avenue, West Eighth Street, and the Whitney Museum site. Sailor's Snug Harbor, the other major land owner, demolished the blocks from Fifth Avenue to Broadway on the north side of Eighth and Ninth Streets, including the popular Brevoort Hotel. It replaced these blocks mainly with low-rise apartment buildings and stores, as well as two high-rises . Around this time, West Eighth Street

136-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eighth Street (Manhattan) 8th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue and also from Avenue B to Avenue D ; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue . Between Third Avenue and Avenue A it

170-677: Is named St. Mark's Place , after the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street at Second Avenue . St. Mark's Place is considered a main cultural street for the East Village . Vehicular traffic runs east along both one-way streets . St. Mark's Place features a wide variety of retailers. Venerable institutions lining St. Mark's Place have included Gem Spa and the St. Mark's Hotel. There are several open-front markets that sell sunglasses, clothing, and jewelry. In her 400-year history of St. Mark's Place ( St. Marks Is Dead ), Ada Calhoun called

204-676: The Renaissance Revival style . It is located within the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District , which was created in October 2012. The site was an outlet for the Chain Shirt Shop in 1922, and "Gem's Spa" had opened by the 1950s. Sociologist Daniel Bell , who claimed in the 1970s that his uncle Hymie created the egg cream, says that another man called Hymie owned a candy store serving egg creams on

238-801: The "Hottest Look in Streetwear" just a couple of days after Fashion Week ended in September 2019, after it caught the attention of fashion influencers like former Calvin Klein model Remy Holwick and designer Kyle Brincefield of Studmuffin NYC. While efforts to save it were underway, in May 2020, Gem Spa closed permanently, due to lack of business from the COVID-19 pandemic . After its closure, Gem Spa announced it would continue to operate an online store selling branded merchandise. Gem Spa

272-401: The 1840s and 1850s. Many of the homes turned into boarding houses , as the area had 50,000 residents but not a lot of real estate. Tenement housing was also built on St. Mark's Place. By the 1870s, apartments replaced stables and houses along the stretch of Eighth Street west of MacDougal Street. The elevated Third and Sixth Avenue Lines were also built during that time, with stops along

306-524: The 1890s, Eighth Street was co-named Clinton Place in memory of politician DeWitt Clinton , whose widow lived along nearby University Place . In the 1850s, Eighth Street housed an educational scene as well. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art , a then-free institution for art, architecture and engineering education, was opened in 1858. The Century Club , an arts and letters association, relocated to 46 East Eighth Street around that time;

340-478: The 1930s, after Prohibition ended, West Eighth Street became an entertainment area. Around that time, the New York School movement for abstract expressionist painters was centered around Eighth Street, with many such painters moving to Eighth Street. After World War II , property along 8th Street was converted to apartment houses. The Rhinelander Estate, one of the major landowners on Eighth Street, erected

374-609: The Bible House of the American Bible Society , was nearby. In addition, the Brevoort Hotel, as well as a marble mansion built by John Taylor Johnston , were erected at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street. At the same time, German immigrants moved into the area around Tompkins Square Park . The area around St. Mark's Place was nicknamed Kleindeutschland , or "Little Germany", because of a huge influx of German immigrants in

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408-753: The Commissioners' Plan was laid out, property along the street's right of way quickly developed. By 1835, the New York University opened its first building, the Silver Center, along Eighth Street near the Washington Square Park. Row houses were also built on Eighth Street. The street ran between the Jefferson Market , built in 1832 at the west end, and the Tompkins Market, built in 1836, at

442-521: The East Village by telling readers to "head east from Greenwich Village , and when it starts to look squalid, around the Bowery and Third Avenue, you know you're there." In the 1960s, Macdougal and West Eighth Streets, as well as St. Mark's Place, became a popular area for hippies . A women's clothing store, a pharmacy, and bookstores were replaced by fast food restaurants and other shops, directed toward

476-421: The anger of some Greenwich Village residents. However, other establishments, such as the B. Dalton bookstore, clothing stores, and shoe stores, started to attract tourists to the area. By the 1990s, the areas around both Eighth Street and St. Mark's Place were becoming rapidly gentrified , with new buildings and establishments being developed along both streets. The Village Alliance Business Improvement District

510-488: The area's tourism base. By 1968, St, Mark's Place became a stopping point for tour buses , which formerly skipped the area. In 1977, St. Marks Place became the epicenter of punk rock , when Manic Panic opened its doors on July 7, 1977 (7/7/77). The shop quickly attracted musicians from Cyndi Lauper to the Ramones. In 1980, hot dog company Nathan's Famous moved into the location of a former bookstore on Eighth Street, to

544-430: The best newsstand in the East Village in 2001. On May 7, 2020, owner Parul Patel announced that the physical store would not re-open due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and rent increases, despite community efforts and a social media campaign to keep it open. The building in which Gem Spa was located, 131 Second Avenue, or 36 St. Marks Place, was built in 1898 to 1900 and was designed by Louis F. Heinecke in

578-592: The early 1900s, Little Germany was shrinking. At the same time, Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians from Eastern Europe started moving in. In 1916, members of the Slovenian community and Franciscans established the Slovenian Church of St. Cyril , which still operates. At this point, St. Mark's Place was considered a part of the Lower East Side . On the western stretch of Eighth Street, an art scene

612-558: The east end. These were factors in the street's commercialization in later years. Eighth Street was supposed to extend to a market place at Avenue C , but since that idea never came to fruition. Capitalizing on the high-class status of Bond, Bleecker , Great Jones , and Lafayette Streets in NoHo , developer Thomas E. Davis developed the east end of the street and renamed it "St. Mark's Place" in 1835. Davis built up St. Mark's Place between Third and Second Avenues between 1831 and 1832. Although

646-493: The former at Ninth Street and along the latter at Eighth Street . At the southwest corner of Broadway and Eighth Street, the street's first commercial building was built. By the 1890s, buildings on the stretch from Bowery to Fifth Avenue were used for trade. In 1904, the Wanamaker's Department Store opened at the former A.T. Stewart store along Broadway between 9th and 10th Streets, with an annex built at Eighth Street. In

680-428: The island via the rights-of-way of Greenwich Avenue , Astor Place , and Stuyvesant Street . The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 defined the street grid for much of Manhattan. According to the plan, 8th Street was to run from Greenwich Lane (now Greenwich Avenue) in the west to First Avenue on the east. The area west of Greenwich Lane was already developed as Greenwich Village , while the area east of First Avenue

714-713: The name Buildings [ edit ] Eighth Street Apartments , residence halls at Georgia Institute of Technology Eighth Street Elementary School , an elementary school in Ocala, Florida Eighth Street Middle School , a public middle school in Tifton, Georgia West Eighth Street Historic District , a historic district in Anderson, Indiana See also [ edit ] Eighth Avenue (disambiguation) Calle Ocho (disambiguation) , in Spanish [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

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748-550: The original plan was for Federal homes, only three such houses remained in 2014. Meanwhile, Eighth Street became home to a literary scene. At Astor Place and Eighth Street, the Astor Opera House was built by wealthy men and opened in 1847. Publisher Evert Augustus Duyckinck founded a private library at his 50 East Eighth Street home. Anne Lynch started a famous literary salon at 116 Waverly Place and relocated to 37 West Eighth Street in 1848. Around this time and up until

782-467: The previous Italian owner, who in turn learned it from his Jewish predecessor. The store manager Salim said in 2010 that only four people knew the recipe. Patel's daughter Parul, a former Morgan Stanley financial advisor, took over the business from her father in 2018 because he was suffering from Parkinson's disease . Gem Spa merchandise was introduced for the first time in 2019, and its T-shirt became popular. So much so that Eater magazine called it

816-411: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eighth_Street&oldid=1098873956 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

850-525: The site of Gem Spa in the 1920s. Village Voice reported in the 1970s that people remembered going to the store before World War I. For thirty years up until 1957 the store was owned by the Goldfeder family. It had been a Beat mecca in the 1950s, a hippie hangout in the sixties and more recently was the scene of a famous photograph of the Dolls . — Gary Valentine of Blondie From 1957 until at least 1969

884-697: The skyscraper at One Fifth Avenue , as well as the Eighth Street Playhouse movie theater, helped influence development on the Sixth Avenue end of the street, where construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line had required destruction of many buildings there. On an adjoining block, the Women's House of Detention was built in Jefferson Market complex in 1929–1932 and existed through the 1970s. In

918-483: The store its current name, initially Gem's Spa - the name came from Gladys, Etta, and Miriam, the names of the wives of Silverstein and Shepard and Shepard's ex-wife. In 1966, The Village Voice called it the "official oasis of the East Village "; it was known as a "hippie hangout". Abbie Hoffman gathered people for his 1967 protest at the New York Stock Exchange at Gem Spa, Allen Ginsberg called it

952-573: The store was closed for a time from February 1972 when it ran into financial trouble and the counter-culture that had helped support it collapsed. The storefront caught fire that May, but it reopened that June with new management. The owner as of 2015 was Ray Patel, who was born in the early 1940s in Gujarat, India. He ran the store with his wife and bought the store in 1986, when he replaced one brick wall with glass. He did no advertising and relied instead on word of mouth. He learned making egg creams from

986-454: The store was owned by Ruby Silverstein and Harold Shepard, who employed 11 staff to keep it open 24 hours a day – Silverstein estimated that every 30 seconds someone walked in the store. The clientele initially mainly bought Jewish and foreign-language papers, which began to change around 1963 as they sold more copies of the Village Voice and underground magazines. Silverstein and Shepard gave

1020-428: The street "like superglue for fragmented identities" and wrote that "the street is not for people who have chosen their lives ... [it] is for the wanderer, the undecided, the lonely, and the promiscuous." Wouter van Twiller , colonial governor of New Amsterdam , once owned a tobacco farm near 8th and MacDougal Streets . Such farms were located around the area until the 1830s. Nearby, a Native American trail crossed

1054-410: Was also becoming the location of neighborhood commerce. After the elevated train lines were demolished in the 1940s and 1950s, the real estate industry tried to entice residents to the St. Mark's Place area, describing the neighborhood as " East Village ". This area became home to an underground scene, and as it was far from public transportation, it became rundown. A 1965 Newsweek article described

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1088-455: Was formed in 1993 to care for the area around Eighth Street. East West St. Mark's Place appears in a variety of works in popular culture. Notable examples include: Notes Bibliography Gem Spa Often referred to as a bodega , in the 1950s, Gem Spa was a gathering place for beats , and in the 1960s it was a hippie hangout, known for selling a wide selection of underground newspapers . New York Magazine named it

1122-489: Was growing. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , Daniel Chester French , and other artists moved in the stables at MacDougal Alley at this time. By 1916, a studio complex for artists replaced most of these stables, making the areas around Eighth Street popular for bohemians . Whitney, a patron for other American painters, combined four houses on West Eighth Street houses into the Whitney Museum in 1931. The 1927 construction of

1156-495: Was reserved for a wholesale food market. The plan was amended many times as the grid took shape and public spaces were added or eliminated. The marketplace proposal was scrapped in 1824, allowing 8th Street to continue eastward to the river. On the west side, Sixth Avenue was extended and Greenwich Lane shortened, shifting the boundary of 8th Street, ever so slightly, to Sixth Avenue and allowing Mercer , Greene, Wooster and MacDougal Streets to continue northward to 8th. After

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