From The King of Comedy to Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese made many masterpieces about his native New York. But he thinks one songwriter captured it perfectly.

Goodbye to David Johansen, the last jet boy standing from the New York Dolls. It wasn’t just ... By comparison, even peers like Iggy or Lou Reed were willing to fall back on tough-guy machismo ...

Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour ... Kane and drummer Jerry Nolan — rubbed shoulders with Lou Reed and Andy Warhol in the Lower East Side of Manhattan the early ...

Our columnist writes Vega's catalog has been blossoming for decades with excellent songwriting in alternative-folk styles.

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later ... rubbed shoulders with Lou Reed and Andy Warhol in the ...

A robotics specialist, he animated puppets and dolls for displays worldwide. His “Toyland,” with a two-story-high Santa, drew ...

[Producer] Bob Ezrin started rehearsing with us for the Destroyer record in 1975 and he had just come off working with Lou Reed on Berlin. We rehearsed in a place called Carol’s on 42nd Street and 6th ...

Lou Reed is always spoken about as being an icon of the New York punk rock scene, and as one of the founding fathers of the genre and movement, but his musical tastes always stretched far beyond the ...

‘Lou Reed claimed nicotine was harder to quit than ... wedding in her parents’ backyard in Connecticut, where the New York-based couple often spend their weekends. ‘We cook, make fires ...

Canal Street in Lower Manhattan runs just over a mile from East Broadway to West Street. It’s big, broad and bustling and ...