Joey Ramone Place

In the East Village, south of Manhattan, at the corner of Bowery Street and 2nd Street, lies Joey Ramone Place, named in November 2023 in tribute to the Ramones’ singer, whose real name was Jeffrey Ross Hyman, who died on April 15, 2001, and who briefly shared an apartment at this location with bassist Dee Dee. Just a few meters away is CBGB, a club originally dedicated to Country, Bluegrass & Blues (hence its name), which famously went on to host the emerging New York punk scene in the mid-1970s and where the band performed for the first time in 1974. In October 2016, a plaque reading “The Ramones Way” was installed to honor the band in the borough of Queens, where the original members first met—specifically in the residential neighborhood of Forest Hills (67th Avenue / 110th Street).