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

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