March 16, 2023
Tin Pan Alley: A Times Square Bar, 1980s. Welcoming Downtown Women Artists
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The Times Square bar Tin Pan Alley, was a popular hangout for downtown women artists. It was also the inspiration for the fictional bar in the recent television serial “The Deuce.”…
July 15, 2021
TIN PAN ALLEY: A TIMES SQUARE BAR, 1980s. Welcoming Downtown Women Artists
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Best known now as the inspiration for the fictional bar Hi Hat in the television serial The Deuce, Tin Pan Alley (1978-88), located on West 49 Street in Times Square, was also an artist hangout and exhibition place. Founded by Maggie Smith in 1978 in a neighborhood where the sex industry flourished, the bar took…