Nevertheless, Mr. Johansen and Mr. Sylvain made three more New York Dolls albums together between 2006 and 2011. Mr. Sylvain died in 2021 , leaving Mr. Johansen as the last original Doll.

The New York Dolls’ meager success would dwindle just as quickly as it came. By the time 1974’s Too Much Too Soon came around, they were all but forgotten — eclipsed by less polarizing bands.

The New York Dolls weren’t presented to me, ... The band that was creating the most excitement and actually got signed first was the New York Dolls.

New York Dolls singer David Johansen has died after silently battling Stage 4 cancer for the last several years. His daughter, Leah Hennessey, revealed his diagnosis.

David Johansen, the New York Dolls vocalist who also recorded “Hot Hot Hot” as Buster Poindexter and acted in Scrooged, has died. He was 75.

The number of contracts signed for sales of apartments in Manhattan and Brooklyn rose year over year in nearly every price category, according to a new report from Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel.

It's the first time New York students will have the day off for the Lunar New Year since a new state law was signed in 2023. In 2024, the holiday fell on a Saturday.

Born in New York City in 1950, Johansen joined New York Dolls not long into its existence, after guitarist Johnny Thunders decided he no longer wanted to be the band’s frontman.

David Johansen, the gravelly-voiced showman who helped ignite the punk rock movement as the vocalist of the New York Dolls before he recorded “Hot Hot Hot” as the lounge lizard Buster ...

David Johansen’s family is opening up about his secret health battle. The singer of the punk band New York Dolls has Stage 4 cancer, which has progressed to a brain tumor, and a broken back, his ...

FILE – The New York Dolls are photographed in New York, July 25, 2006. From left are David Johansen, Sami Yaffa, Steve Conte, Sylvain Sylvain, Brian Delaney, rear, and Brian Koonin.

New York Dolls in 1973 | Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In a sense what they did was anti-musical, and at the time I recognised that this was the necessary cyclic thing in music.