Cornelia Street Cafe
The Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village , New York City was a cafe and restaurant, as well as an exhibition and venue for jazz , art and literature. It existed from 1977 to early 2019.
The Cornelia Street Cafe
The Cornelia Street Cafe was founded in 1977 by three New York artists; Robin Hirsch, a writer and director, Charles McKenna, an actor, and Raphaela Pivetta, an artist, discovered the storefront in the middle of New York's bohemian Greenwich Village to open a café, which happened on July 4, 1977. The Cornelia Street Cafe was an artist's café from the start, with a program that included poetry readings and concerts; Occasionally, events such as pantomime performances or puppet theater were also moved to the streets outside the café.
Over the years, many internationally known artists have performed in the café; so u. a. singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega ; and poet and senator Eugene McCarthy , members of the Monty Python comedian troupe and the Royal Shakespeare Company . Various performances were also held by the Songwriters Exchange , and various writers' associations such as the Writers Room , the Writers Studio , the Greek-American Writers Association , the Italian-American Writers Association, and the New Works Project / Theater . The Cornelia Street Cafe also provided exhibition space for painting and photography.
There was an antique oak bar on the first floor, the inventory of which was recovered from a demolished house in the Bowery and restored. There were also three dining rooms with a fireplace. The café's kitchen won the Village Arts Award in 1998.
New York's ex-mayor Ed Koch said at the tenth anniversary in 1987 that the Cornelia Street Cafe had become a “culinary as well as cultural landmark” of the city.
The café belonged to the founder Robin Hirsch, who ran it together with Judith Kallas and Bob Siegler. It was open seven days a week and hosted about a hundred cultural events a year.
The Cornelia Street Cafe was one of the most important venues of the jazz avant-garde, along with many performances by singer-songwriters such as Lili Añel , Amanda Baisinger , Zack Foley and Sara Serpa ; In 2009 alone, Ralph Alessi , David Amram , the Theo Bleckmann / Ben Monder Duo, Daniel Carter , Ellery Eskelin , Ricardo Gallo / Ray Anderson , George Garzone , the Gerry Hemingway Quartet with Herb Robertson , the Deez to Blues Sextet with Mario Pavone , Lucian performed Ban's Tuba Project with Bob Stewart and Nate Wooley / Harris Eisenstadt . From 2007 the annual festival of the musicians' cooperative Brooklyn Jazz Underground took place there.
On the first Sunday of every month you could take part in a Ronald Hoffman quiz show.
Due to the ongoing development of the area around Cornelia Street, rents rose steadily, so that the operator decided to close the café at the end of 2018. The Cornelia Street Cafe was open for the last time on December 31, 2018.
address
- The Cornelia Street Cafe
- 29 Cornelia Street
- New York, New York 10014
- Tel 212-989 / 9319
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 40 ° 43 '52.9 " N , 74 ° 0' 8.6" W.