When MK lived in NYC

[Jules]

Hello.
A dear friend of mine is going to visit Manhattan this summer and as he knew that I Was writting the book about London and the places related to MK and DS, he asked me about the places relared to MK in NYC, and I had to admitt that we know very little about MK living in NYC...

We just know that he was very friend with Rudy Pensa and we know where the shop it is, and I think that´s all. He used to live there with his second wife and having a house at the same time in London, but we don't have an idea of in which part of the city he used to live, and I find it interesting, trying to track MK in NYC...

We also know that he was in NYC in a big store when he heard the conversation that inspired him to create MFN but we don´t know which store, and things like that...

I would like that this thread works to put some light to the time when MK was living at NYC and try to TRACK his steps there, just for fun, as he doesn´t live there anymore, there is no privacy invasion.

[Pottel]

THAT shop, omg, imagine if it still exists.
has he EVER mentioned the location or name?

[Jules]

I can´t recall...

But about where he lived, I found this, from the SOS compilation interview:

*Robert Sandall : "There's a live version here of 'Your Latest Trick'. That song?"
*Mark Knopfler : "That is again from living in New York. If you've lived there for a while, which I did, or part of the time anyway, you start to breathe-in the city really. The garbage trucks are like these great monsters that roar through the early hours of the night. I'd be coming home from the studio - I was doing long hours then - and I'd come home late at night. I'd ride on a bicycle flat out down the Avenue back home down to the Village, and you'd see these things about the city, roaring, just like great beasts. I think I got the idea from some literature somewhere, I don't remember what it was, but the idea of a "trick" has a number of possibilities. I like the idea of songs that have a number of possibilities, people do different things with them. Its really just playing with ideas...with that song, to be honest, I don't think that I was being specific about anything, it was just carrying on the ideMK : With some songs, you've started, so you finish, and it's really amazing. If you do section A, section B, can start dictating itself - it really just seems that ought to be there - and then C, and so on and so forth. It's a mysterious thing really that you're turning into, but you have to respect it in a way. You have to let the thing go where it wants to go, and you can't necessarily always force the issue - you finish it off and sign it."

So, from this, can we say he lived at The Village? I don´t know much about NYC so I don´t know what part of the city really is...

[Jules]

From Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/fearless-leader-19851121

With his second wife, the former Lourdes Salamone (he was briefly married during his university days), Knopfler splits his home life between apartments in New York's Greenwich Village and London's West End.

[Jules]

And according this article, the house was having works over the years, when BIA was released:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19860124&id=kswzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U5UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1856,4900105&hl=es

[border_reiver]

Might not fit what you are looking for and might be quite an impossible visit but Monteleone has his workshop in Islip.

[Jules]

According to this wikipedia entry, track where MK lived in NYC is as easy as this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_%28Manhattan%29

Any of you can add anything else about MK in NYC?

[border_reiver]

See if you might contact his former neighbor Peter Foges? 

http://www.grandlifehotels.com/culture/the-best-little-block-in-the-world-bank-street/

[border_reiver]

This was funny 

http://rollingstoneindia.com/mark-knopfler%E2%80%99s-second-act/2/

“At that time,” Knopfler goes on, “I was living half the time in New York and half in London. I think Bob quite liked walking the streets of Greenwich Village again. He used to come round to our house on Bank Street armed against the cold in a fur hat, long blue cashmere coat and biker boots. I’d make a pot of coffee and we’d play pool.”

[Jules]

Quite a nice quote, LOL

I wonder is the store that inspired MFN was close to his house.

[Jules]

He also says that him coming back home from the studio on his bike inspired Your latest trick, I wonder which studio it was to also guess that way back home

Edit: MK used to work a lot at the Power Station Studios, now Avatar Studios, so the bike ride from work to home must have been this 14 minutes ride: http://goo.gl/maps/3Lyd6

Quite nice!

[yontwocrows]

I would bike along the Hudson River, even if it's longer 

[Jules]

I would bike along the Hudson River, even if it's longer 

Me too, but Mk said in the interview for the SOS compilation "I'd ride on a bicycle flat out down the Avenue back home down to the Village" so it looks like the route he used to do was that 

Sometimes you wanna get home as early as possible, LOL, but the river route would be nicer.

[Pottel]

36 bank street.

that was his house/Place.

[the visitor]

On the BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans show where Mark was a guest with Nile Rogers of Chic, they talked about New York a lot. Nile was working in the Power Station by day and Mark by night, so their paths crossed. Would love to hear a collaboration between those two, it would be off the wall.  I am sure you can still listen again to the show on the BBC website.