Hollis, New York

Everything Hollis is known for

1 song mention this city 2 artists from here

Music in Hollis

Songs About Hollis

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50 Cent
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"That's Ja little punk ass thinking out loud"

Artists From Hollis

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Run-DMC
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Ja Rule
hip-hop

Rivers & Roads in Song near Hollis

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Hollis.

Interstate 95 19 songs Hudson River 11 songs New Jersey Turnpike 7 songs

Musical Heritage

CBGB — Birthplace of American Punk RoadyGoat

1973

The narrow storefront at 315 Bowery was CBGB, the grimy club where American punk and new wave were essentially born. Hilly Kristal opened it in December 1973, and the name is one of music's great ironies: CBGB & OMFUG stood for 'Country, BlueGrass, Blues, and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers' (Kristal meant a 'voracious eater' — of music). Almost no country or bluegrass ever played there. Instead the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Patti Smith and Television cut their teeth on its tiny stage through the 1970s. CBGB closed on October 15, 2006 over a lease dispute, and Kristal died of lung cancer the following year. The space later became a John Varvatos clothing boutique (opened April 2008), which kept some of the club's graffiti and posters; 'CBGB 73' is still etched in the cement at the entrance.

12.0 mi away

History of Hollis

Peter Luger Steak House RoadyGoat

Peter Luger has been serving porterhouse steaks in Williamsburg, Brooklyn since 1887. The German-style beer hall turned steakhouse earned a Michelin star and held Zagat's top steakhouse rating for 30 consecutive years. The ordering ritual is simple — you get the porterhouse for two, three, or four. The steak sauce, sold in bottles, has its own cult following. When the New York Times gave it zero stars in 2019, New Yorkers revolted. The place hasn't changed, and that's the point.

10.5 mi away

Sylvia's Restaurant RoadyGoat

Sylvia Woods opened her soul food restaurant on Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1962 with a small loan and big ambition. She became known as the Queen of Soul Food, serving smothered chicken, collard greens, and candied yams to everyone from Muhammad Ali to Nelson Mandela. The restaurant survived Harlem's toughest decades and became a symbol of Black entrepreneurship and cultural pride.

11.5 mi away

Junior's Restaurant RoadyGoat

Harry Rosen opened Junior's on the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb in Brooklyn in 1950. The cheesecake — dense, creamy, on a sponge-cake base — became so famous that Junior's ships thousands nationwide every holiday season. The neon sign and vinyl booths are Brooklyn institutions. When downtown Brooklyn gentrified around it, Junior's held firm.

11.7 mi away

World Trade Center / Ground Zero

2001

Site of the September 11, 2001 attacks that destroyed the Twin Towers and killed 2,977 people.

13.1 mi away

Ellis Island Immigration Station

1892

From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island in New York Harbor.

14.5 mi away

Harlem - Lenox Avenue

1920

Lenox Avenue in Harlem was the cultural epicenter of the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of African American art, literature, and music in the 1920s and 1930s.

11.6 mi away

Apollo Theater

1934

The Apollo Theater at 253 West 125th Street has been the most important venue for Black performers in America since 1934.

11.9 mi away

CBGB

1973

CBGB at 315 Bowery was the birthplace of American punk rock, launching the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, and Television.

12.0 mi away

Tin Pan Alley

1885

The stretch of West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue where the American popular music publishing industry was born.

12.0 mi away

Things to Do in Hollis

historical 14.9 mi away
Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired your poor. 305 feet of copper freedom since 1886.
food 10.5 mi away
Peter Luger Steak House

Brooklyn's legendary porterhouse palace since 1887. Cash only. The steak sauce is iconic. Zagat's top steakhouse for 30 straight years.
food 11.8 mi away
Katz's Delicatessen

I'll have what she's having. NYC's legendary pastrami since 1888.
historical 11.9 mi away
Apollo Theater

Amateur Night launched Ella James Brown and a young Michael Jackson. Harlem's crown jewel.
food 11.9 mi away
McSorley's Old Ale House

NYC's oldest bar since 1854. Lincoln drank here. You get light or dark — that's it. Sawdust floors and wishbones on the gas lamp.
food 12.1 mi away
Di Fara Pizza

One man hand-cutting basil and drizzling olive oil on every pizza since 1965 in Brooklyn.
food 12.2 mi away
Lombardi's Pizza

America's first pizzeria opened in 1905 on Spring Street in Manhattan. Coal-fired oven. The original New York slice started here.
food 14.9 mi away
Nathan's Famous (Original)

The Coney Island hot dog stand that started it all in 1916. Home of the July 4th eating contest. Mustard not ketchup.

Everything Near Hollis

313 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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