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Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Madonna to the East Village, Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at East 4th Street
East 4th Street, Manhattan: Moved into a walk-up apartment on this block about a year after arriving in New York in 1977. She had left for a loft on Broome Street by the time she signed her record deal.
Source: nyctourism.com
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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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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Venue
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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Venue
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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