{"id":153465,"date":"2026-03-05T05:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:23:32","slug":"look-inside-richard-hells-east-village-tenement-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153465\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Inside Richard Hell\u2019s East Village Tenement Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-i=\"0\" class=\"svelte-1p2a2z6\">When he moved into his East Village apartment in 1974, Richard Hell was 24 years old and playing bass in Television, the influential proto-punk band that was one of the first to play at CBGB. At the time, the rent on the one-bedroom unit was about $110 a month.<\/p>\n<p data-i=\"1\" class=\"svelte-1p2a2z6\">\u201cThe heat would be off for months at a time,\u201d Mr. Hell recalled, \u201cbut then they would forget to collect rent, so it kind of balanced out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-i=\"2\" class=\"svelte-1p2a2z6\">Over the next 50-plus years, he formed a few new bands (including the Heartbreakers and the Voidoids), starred in a couple of movies (including Susan Seidelman\u2019s \u201cSmithereens\u201d), and quit music for a writing career, penning volumes of poetry and cultural criticism, two novels, and a celebrated 2013 autobiography, \u201cI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp.\u201d In February, New York Review Books reissued \u201cGodlike,\u201d his visceral 2005 novel about a pair of dissolute New York poets in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When he moved into his East Village apartment in 1974, Richard Hell was 24 years old and playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36197,35078,30171,9,11,10,578,13995,52065,63747,63748],"class_list":{"0":"post-153465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-books-and-literature","9":"tag-cbgb","10":"tag-hell","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-real-estate-and-housing-residential","15":"tag-rent-control-and-stabilization","16":"tag-renting-and-leasing-real-estate","17":"tag-richard","18":"tag-television-music-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153465","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=153465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}