What Was Right There: CBGB, the Bowery, and the Three Stores I Never Looked At
Growing up in Brooklyn, I spent my Sundays at CBGB’s hardcore matinee chasing music. I never noticed the leather shop or the kitchen equipment store right beside it.

Growing up in Brooklyn, I spent my Sundays at CBGB’s hardcore matinee chasing music. I never noticed the leather shop or the kitchen equipment store right beside it.

Sunset Park in the late 1980s did not produce philosophers. It produced survivors. The blocks…