New York Places

"...New York on Sunday, big city taking a nap.
Slow down it's Sunday. Life's a ball let it fall in your lap ..." (Audio)


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


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

  • 2037 First Avenue, at about 105th Street, East Harlem. Map
    (Source - 1940 Census. Thanks to Gary Weiss for this information.)

  • 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 grade. 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 West 71st Street: His first apartment. Map

  • Apollo Theater 253 West 125th Street, Harlem: In 1957, Bobby played the Apollo as 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 an American. Map
    (Thanks a million, Hesh, for this information!)

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

  • Cisda, Crean & Burton,101 West 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 Avenue, 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, Bobby hung out here, too. Map

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

  • Copacabana, 10 East 60th Street: Anyone who thought "Mack the Knife" was a fluke didn't see his run at the Copa in June 1960. Not 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.

  • East 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 East 52nd Street: Celebrity hangout of the early 1960s. Bobby 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 August 1972. Map
    (Thank you, Joy Cash, for sharing your souvenir program.)

  • 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. Many of Bobby's television appearances are available for viewing, as well as a number of his NBC televison shows. Map
    Founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, and renamed The Paley Center for Media on June 5, 2007.



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