Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Cyndi Lauper to Ozone Park, Queens. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 104th Street
104th Street, Queens: Grew up on this block in Ozone Park with her mother and two siblings after her parents divorced.
Source: untappedcities.com
Places
- St. George Theatre
- Power Station
- Danceteria
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- Radio City Music Hall
- Richmond Hill High School, School
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Music spots
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Venue
St. George Theatre
1929A picture palace on Staten Island’s North Shore, opened on 4 December 1929 and renovated in 2004. Tony Bennett, Cyndi Lauper, Art Garfunkel, Neil Sedaka and Tony Orlando are among those who have performed there, per Wikipedia.
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Studio
Power Station
1977Opened in 1977 in an abandoned Hell’s Kitchen building, and now Power Station at BerkleeNYC. Carly Simon made Come Upstairs here in 1980, Madonna recorded Like a Virgin with Nile Rodgers in 1984, and Cyndi Lauper recorded True Colors in 1986, per Wikipedia.
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Danceteria
1982The four-floor club on West 21st Street became one of the centers of new wave music in New York; Madonna and Cyndi Lauper were among the musicians who frequented it, and in July 2026 Madonna released a track called “Danceteria”, per Wikipedia.
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Radio City Music Hall
1984–1998The first MTV Video Music Awards were held here on 14 September 1984. Madonna came out of a 17-foot wedding cake to sing “Like a Virgin”, and Cyndi Lauper, the night’s most-nominated artist, won Best Female Video for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, per Wikipedia. At the 40th Grammy Awards here on 25 February 1998, Erykah Badu and Fiona Apple both performed and won, per Wikipedia and the Recording Academy, and Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed the stage as Shawn Colvin took it to accept Song of the Year, per Wikipedia.
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