Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was 1982, and Rafe Gomez wasn’t supposed to be on the roof. Then in his early 20s, Gomez had taken the elevator to the top of ...

The nightclub Danceteria—whose location on West 21 st Street in Manhattan was the backdrop of the disco scene in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan—was a hot destination for club kids and artists ...

Clubs are an important part of New York's night life. Always have been, always will be. But the city never had a club scene like the one in the 1980s. And that scene never had another venue like ...

Danceteria Serving as a template for the bevy of new-wave clubs that sprung up in the city in the ’80s, Rudolf Piper and Jim Fouratt’s original Danceteria opened on West 37th Street in 1979. But it ...

Madonna used to sit on the steps of the new-wave dreamland Danceteria—where she was a hat-check girl, Keith Haring was Madonna used to sit on the steps of the new-wave dreamland Danceteria—where she ...

Danceteria sent shockwaves through the city’s party scene when it opened in May 1980, all the way down to the Mudd Club, where its owners had spent a fair amount of time hanging out. Dedicating the ...

New York, NY, Jan. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rafe Gomez - a nationally acclaimed radio mix show DJ, club DJ, and music producer - will debut “Danceteria REWIND” on the Twitch livestreaming platform ...

A time capsule buried by famed/infamous ’70s/’80s niteclub Danceteria was unearthed by a construction crew on Wednesday and mistaken for a bomb. Mind you, it was bomb-shaped, looking like an old WWII ...

"It was where influencers went before there were influencers," says Rafe Gomez, who faithfully recreates the sound of the iconic '80s venue every Thursday night. By Katie Bain It was 1982, and Rafe ...