{"id":131792,"date":"2026-02-12T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131792\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:05:12","slug":"new-york-to-co-name-street-after-jimi-hendrix-kshe-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131792\/","title":{"rendered":"New York to co-name street after Jimi Hendrix \u2013 KSHE 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770933912_412_Getty_JimiHendrix_021226.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Getty jimihendrix 021226\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>American Rock Singer and Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970). (Photo by Avalon\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>New York City is set to honor the legacy of rocker Jimi Hendrix. It was just announced that the city plans to co-name West 8th Street in Greenwich Village Jimi Hendrix Way.<\/p>\n<p>The street is where Hendrix\u2019s legendary Electric Lady Studios is located. Opened in August 1970,\u00a0Electric Lady\u00a0was the first commercial studio owned by an artist. Hendrix died just three weeks after its opening.<\/p>\n<p>The naming is set to take place Feb. 24 at 11 a.m., and was the result of a campaign led by Experience Hendrix LLC President and CEO Janie Hendrix, NYC District 2 council member Harvey Epstein, and guitarist and writer Jeff Slate.<\/p>\n<p>The naming ceremony\u00a0will coincide with the launch of a new education partnership with E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt\u2019s TeachRock, which uses music and pop culture to expand learning in schools. The partnership will result in the addition of a Hendrix curriculum for middle and high school students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJimi Hendrix didn\u2019t just play guitar\u2014he reimagined what art could be,\u201d says Van Zandt. \u201cI want TeachRock to transport students into that same sense of possibility and discovery I felt the first time I saw Jimi perform. His story, lyrics, and sound remind young people that creativity has no limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janie Hendrix, Van Zandt and Epstein will attend the street naming ceremony, along with group of local TeachRock teachers and students. It will take place\u00a0on the corner of 8th Street and 6th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time the street has been named after Hendrix. In 2024, the same street in Greenwich Village was temporarily renamed after the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer in connection with the release of the documentary\u00a0Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Rock Singer and Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970). (Photo by Avalon\/Getty Images) New York City is set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,9870],"class_list":{"0":"post-131792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-syndicated"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}