WEST VILLAGE, Manhattan — When you walk inside Carmine Street Guitars, you’re welcomed by the smell of fresh wood, the sound of saws, the strum of guitars and a smile from a man with endless stories to tell.<\/p>\n
“I wake up to Vinny Mustache feeding the pigeons in the morning right outside the shop,” said Rick Kelly, owner of Carmine Street Guitars.<\/p>\n
That simple introduction barely scratches the surface.<\/p>\n
“This is McSorley’s, the oldest bar in New York. This one is a water tower. This is all made from a 1912 Steinway piano,” Kelly said, pointing to some of his creations.<\/p>\n
Kelly is an artist, craftsman, scavenger, mentor and, in many ways, a historian.<\/p>\n
“I’m not into history, really, other than the history of New York City. I love that,” Kelly said.<\/p>\n
This isn’t the kind of history found in textbooks. It’s preserved in the foundation of the building itself.<\/p>\n
“This is an 1827 building, one of the oldest three on the block,” Kelly said. “This was a speakeasy back there during Prohibition.”<\/p>\n
And it’s etched into every guitar he makes.<\/p>\n
“Every building in the city is framed in this old growth,” Kelly said. “I call it the bones of old New York.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST VILLAGE, Manhattan — When you walk inside Carmine Street Guitars, you’re welcomed by the smell of fresh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[105482,105483,9,24,55,54,56,105484],"class_list":["post-274093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-guitars","tag-music-shop","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-repair-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274093","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=274093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}