Gaslight cafe comedy cellar11/11/2023 The coffeehouse and music venue hosted the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Allen Ginsberg. Miriam “Midge” Maisel’s journey as a comedian begins at the Gaslight, which was a very real place in the ’50s and ’60s. Maisel, Midge stops by Village Vanguard to see her pal, the legendary comedian Lenny Bruce, open for a jazz band. The joint was originally dedicated to poetry reading and folk music before jazz took hold there in the ’50s. Since 1935, Village Vanguard has made its home at 178 Seventh Ave. And when we say old-school, we mean it: This place has been serving up omelettes and burgers since the early 1930s. La Bonbonniereįlashbacks to Midge and Joel’s dating days-and engagement-take place at La Bonbonniere, an old-school diner at 28 8th Ave. Fun fact: Bob Dylan lived a couple doors down, at 161 W. You can visit the quirky, cramped shop at 169 W. Midge and her, uh, rough-around-the-edges manager Susie Myerson visit the Music Inn early in season one-and Midge’s estranged husband, Joel, later hears a bootleg recording of Midge’s act here. The protest is organized by the activist Jane Jacobs and touches on her ultimately victorious fight against Robert Moses, NYC Parks commissioner and “master builder,” and his plan to pave highways through the park. Midge wanders into a protest here and, in classic Midge fashion, ends up in front of a microphone talking about herself. You can see many of the following spots on our Greenwich Village scavenger hunts for public and private groups. With the fourth season just ended and a final fifth season on the way, the show spends much of its time at real-life locations in and around Greenwich Village, though it ventures around the city quite a bit. Maisel, about a housewife-turned-comedienne, zips around from the Upper West Side to Midtown to the Village, it reads like a love letter to 1950s New York. “E veryone you care about can despise you, and you can still find a bagel so good, nothing else matters.” As the Amazon original series The Marvelous Mrs.
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