the New York Dolls, made its name and proudly trashy reputation at the Mercer Arts Center, a multi-tiered performance space in the Village. In their original incarnation, the Dolls only lasted a ...

Paul Nelson first saw the New York Dolls at Manhattan’s Mercer Arts Centre in August 1972. He immediately wanted to sign them to Mercury. No go. During September and October 1972, he took executives ...

Today we revisit downtown New York in the early 1970s and the debut ... flocked to gritty gigs at Max’s Kansas City and the Mercer Arts Center. That year, the proto-punk enfants terribles ...

“Musically, we wanted to bring back stuff with that Little Richard punch to it,” he told The New York Times in 2006. The highbrow Mercer Arts Center booked the Dolls for a Tuesday-night ...

David Johansen, frontman for the New York Dolls and the last surviving original ... and they quickly became regulars at the Mercer Arts Center, the trendy downtown club frequented by Andy Warhol ...

Goodbye to David Johansen, the last jet boy standing from the New York ... The Dolls got their start playing every Tuesday night at NYC’s downtown Mercer Arts Center, in the Oscar Wilde Room.

David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of the flamboyantly gritty proto-punk band New York Dolls has died ... they were beloved at the Mercer Arts Center, a downtown club ...

Less than a year after its release, the Dolls ... in The New Yorker about being blown away by the band in the Lower Manhattan space that became their launchpad, the Mercer Arts Center, describing ...

the New York Dolls, made its name and proudly trashy reputation at the Mercer Arts Center, a multi-tiered performance space in the Village. In their original incarnation, the Dolls only lasted a ...

David Johansen at the Loews Regency New ... the Mercer Arts Center, a downtown club frequented by Andy Warhol. The Smiths’ frontman Morrissey was entranced by a BBC broadcast of the Dolls ...