The New York Dolls didn’t crack the Top 100, but they changed the world, and critic Robert Christgau was on the scene to see ...

As the front man of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo ...

David Johansen, who died in February at 75, talks about the history of the New York Dolls, drugs, and fashion in the Village, in this lost interview.

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls ...

Goodbye to David Johansen, the last jet boy standing from ... Johansen grew up on Staten Island, where his father was an opera fanatic. “I know all the operas by heart,” he tells an L.A ...

He was a survivor. Until he wasn't. I won't say he reinvented himself as much as Bowie or Madonna, then again Johansen was ...

My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen presented ... who in 2004 told a Randalls Island audience I was part of that ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A man who allegedly pointed a gun toward police was fatally wounded after NYPD officers opened fire at an outdoor shopping center in Charleston, according to a source with ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 29-year-old man was indicted on an attempted murder charge after he allegedly fired a gun into a crowded business in West Brighton. Osvaldo Dejesus of Colonial Avenue in ...