By Drew Grant 2/19 6:49pm

Price of Punk

Joey Ramone's passport. (Courtesy of RR Auction)

A Return to Rock ’N’ Roll High School With Joey Ramone Auction

It’s rare to find a passport for sale by a reputable vendor, but if you can pass for a young man named Jeff Ross Hyman, then the New Hampshire-based RR Auction has an item you might be interested in. Sure, the current bid is $4,840 for the international identification card once owned by Joey Ramone, but it’s worth every penny.

In fact, each of the 81 lots currently up for auction in the Joey Ramone Collection is a priceless piece of punk-pop history, as evidenced by the bevy of fans lined up outside The Bowery Electric on February 7, hoping to catch a glimpse of the artifacts during a special two-hour display. They might have been surprised by the contents.

Though RR deals mostly in signed items such as: letters, photos and books, according to the company’s vice president of marketing and sales, Bobby Livingston, there’s always room for exceptions—especially when it came to Joey Ramone. Read More

By Joe Pompeo 10/29/08 6:59pm

Punk’s Not Dead, It’s At Christie’s!

Once in awhile we happen upon a little piece of news or even just a realization about a seemingly mundane fact of life that makes us feel like we really are living in the future. For instance, 10 or 15 years ago we were probably thinking thinks like: “Wow, I bet someday everyone will be Read More

By Max Abelson 5/01/07 10:46pm

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Celebrity Broker

Location: You once managed the Ramones. Which is harder: punk rock or real estate?

Stein: Real estate. Firstly, if you manage a band, every time you hear an encore, every time the audience increases, every time your radio increases, it’s an upper. With real estate, the only upper is how much you don’t owe Read More

By Ian Blecher 10/23/06 12:00am

Gabba Gabba Goodbye

On Aug. 16, 1977–the day Elvis Presley died–Joey Ramone and a couple of his friends were moping around the Lower East Side, devastated. Still, nobody could think of a fitting homage to their idol. “Then somebody got the idea that we should buy some fresh brains,” said Joey’s friend, DeerFrances, who was there that day. Read More

By Choire Sicha 12/08/03 12:00am

Meet Me On Joey Ramone Place… I Like the Ring of It

This last terribly bright Sunday, around the time church would let out, people in dark clothing began to loiter at the corner of Bowery and Second Street. The focus of their sun-glassed attention was a black T-shirt tied around a street sign on the northeast corner. A few hours later, that T-shirt would be removed, Read More

By NYO Staff 6/25/01 12:00am

Stone Temple Pilots: The Talented Mr. Ripoff

The new Stone Temple Pilots album, Shangri-LA DEE DA (Atlantic), begs the question: Can you teach an old dog to rip off new tricks? Once the subject of venomous rants by every self-righteous indiebot trying to keep it real in the post-Nirvana gold rush, S.T.P., like the radon in your basement, have somehow endured. Someday Read More