Cornelia Street Cafe
| Cornelia Street Café | |
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 Cornelia Street Cafe, circa 2009 | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Established | July 1977 |
| Closed | January 1, 2019 |
| Owner(s) | Robin Hirsch |
| Previous owner(s) | Charles McKenna, Raphaela Pivetta, Robin Hirsch |
| Dress code | Casual |
| Street address | 29 Cornelia St. |
| City | Manhattan |
| County | New York City |
| State | New York State |
| Country | United States of America |
| Coordinates | 40°43′53″N 74°00′09″W / 40.731348°N 74.002391°W |
| Website | corneliastreetcafe |
The Cornelia Street Cafe, was a restaurant & bar at 29
Business
In the 21st century, the Cornelia Street Cafe was a restaurant and nightclub, showcasing musicians, poets, writers, and artists. In 1998, the Cafe was one of the restaurants recognized by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation with a Village Award presented to "Cornelia Street Restaurants".[3]
Songwriters Exchange
In December 1977, the then-fledgling cafe hosted the first meeting of the Songwriters Exchange, a weekly gathering in which the Village's songwriters could present their new songs--and only new songs--to their peers. Two years later the cafe sponsored "Cornelia Street: The Songwriters Exchange," an LP of eight Village singer-songwriters; released by Stash Records, the LP was named "Album Of The Month" by Stereo Review in December 1979, and was later re-released as a cd. It has the first known recordings of several prominent Village artists, including Cliff Eberhardt, David Massengill, Rod MacDonald, Martha Hogan, Michael Fracasso, Brian Rose, Eliot Simon and Lucy Kaplansky (as Simon & Kaplansky), and was Tom Intondi's second recorded work.[4]
References
- ^ Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (12 December 2018). "West Village Art Haven Cornelia Street Cafe Will Close After 41 Years". Eater NY.
- ^ a b Kristen Saloomey (1 January 2019). "New York's Cornelia Street Cafe is latest victim of rising rents". Al Jazeera.
- ^ "Past Village Award Winners". GVSHP.org. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ "The Songwriters Exchange – Cornelia Street". discogs.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
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