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  • Bellevue Hospital: Bobby was born May 14, 1936 at 5:28 in the morning. Map


  • 125th Street and Second Avenue, Harlem: First home. Map

  • 60 Baruch Drive: He grew up here, on the lower East Side by the FDR Drive. Map

  • P.S. 43 on Brown Place: In the fall of 1943, Bobby was enrolled. By the end
       of the first grade, he was advanced to the third. Map

  • 629 East 135th Street, Apartment 2-W Bronx: Lived here in 1954 Map

  • Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 14, Wall Street: Founded during the presidency of George    Washington (1792), it is one of the nation's oldest law firms. Bobby was employed there at    one time. Map

  • The Bronx High School of Science 75 West 205th Street, Bronx: Map

  • Sunnylands: Bobby worked the summers at this hotel in Parksville. Map

  • Liberty: In 1951 Bobby attended summer school during the day and hitched a ride to
       Parksville each day. Map

  • Hunter College, Manhattan's Upper East Side: Bobby enrolled as a theater major. Map

  • Hanson's Drugstore, 51st and 7th Avenue: A spot for Bobby and his friends to meet.   He met Harriet Wasser here. (Hanson's is now an art shop.) Map

  • Club 78, Broadway and 78th Street: 1954. A popular hangout for unemployed musicans who    gathered to play -- and complain. Map

  • 217 W 71st Street: His first apartment Map

  • Apollo Theater 253 West 125th Street, Harlem: In 1957, Bobby played the Apollo as a   part of Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Revue. Map

  • 1697 Broadway: CBS Studio 50 where Bobby appeared on The Dorsey Brothers
      Stage Show
    and The Ed Sullivan Show. Map

  • China Song Restaurant: A restaurant located right next to the Ed Sullivan Theatre
       where David Letterman's show is now taped. One of Bobby's favorite restaurants, the
       owner's name was Sam...he was American. (Thanks a million Hesh!) Map

  • Patsy's Italian Restaurant, 236 W 56th Street: Another spot for Bobby Map

  • Cisda, Crean & Burton, 101 W 55th Street: Bobby's managers in 1958 for 10 months. Map

  • Ben Maksik's Town & Country, Brooklyn: First major nightclub appearance in    December 1958 Map

  • 1440 Broadway: He hung around the Joe Franklin show at the old WOR-TV studios. Map

  • 1175 York Ave. Penthouse B-5: He lived in this apartment. Map

  • 1650 Broadway: A legendary music building of the '50s, home to hundreds of tiny labels.    Like thousands of others, Darin hung out here, too. Map

  • Atlantic Records, 234 W 56th Street: Atlantic is the place where Darin put            himself on the map with "Splish Splash." Map

  • Copacabana, 10 E 60th Street: Anyone who thought "Mack the Knife" was a fluke didn't see    his run at the Copa in June 1960. There wasn't an empty seat in the house. Map

  • Freedomland, Bronx: He performed here on July 23, 1963, in a pouring rain. Map
       Co-op City was built on land that had been owned by the Freedomland amusement park, in the late 1960s, as a    project encouraged by New York State's Mitchell-Lama bill, designed to keep a middle class, and its tax    revenues, in New York City, rather than fleeing to the suburbs. Freedomland actually occupied primarily what is    now the Bay Plaza.

  • E 55th Street and 6th Avenue: First office for Trinity Music (T.M.) Map

  • Brill Building, 1619 Broadway: In 1963 he opened T.M., a music writing and publishing    company. It did well, with hits like "The Shoop Shoop Song," but when the Beatles came    along, the songwriting system collapsed. Map

  • Harwyn Club, 112 E 52nd Street: Celebrity hangout of the early 1960s. Darin would       drop in and play piano. Map

  • Three Rivers Inn, Route 57:A nightclub and hotel owned by Dom Bruno in upstate
      Syracuse NY where Bobby appeared in 1963. Map

  • Central Park New York City: Bobby performed a concert here in July 1972. Map

  • The Bronx Walk of Fame - (Bobby's sign): It begins at 161st Street & Grand Concourse    and runs south. His sign is currently on 161st Street. Map

  • Museum of TV and Radio: West 57th Street Map



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