Joey Ramone, tall, in round dark glasses and a leather jacket, leaning on a brick wall — Joey Ramone, 1977. Danny Fields · Public domain

Johnny Ramone with a straight fringe, white T-shirt and leather jacket against a steel door — Johnny Ramone, 1977. Danny Fields · Public domain

Dee Dee Ramone with a dark fringe and a printed T-shirt under a leather jacket — Dee Dee Ramone, 1977. Danny Fields · Public domain

Tommy Ramone in dark glasses and a leather jacket against a brick wall — Tommy Ramone, 1977. Danny Fields · Public domain

Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy in 1977, cut from Danny Fields’s Rocket to Russia press photograph (public domain).

Forest Hills · the Bowery · Camden · Sunset Strip

RamonesForest Hills to the Bowery, 1974–2016

Four lockers, four Ramones, 1977. Press a number to slam one.

A school corner in Queens, a club on the Bowery, a studio upstairs at Radio City and two nights in Camden. Count it in, then go and stand there.

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CBGB, 315 Bowery · 16 August 1974

Count it in.

They counted the set off with a shout: one, two, three, four. A Ramones show back then could be six songs in a quarter of an hour. Hit 1, 2, 3, 4 in order and the next place goes off. Six songs; a wrong count starts again.

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Next up: Song 1 of 6 · Forest Hills

Count it in.

Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone on a dark stage, with Tommy at the drums behind them, in black and white — On tour at the New Yorker Theater, Toronto, September 1976. Plismo · CC BY-SA 3.0. Plismo · CC BY-SA 3.0

1 · 2 · 3 · 4!The first song is Forest Hills.

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Punk New York walking tours

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Dingwalls

Gigs at Dingwalls

Camden Lock, London NW1

A live music venue at Camden Lock since 1973, and the room the band sold out the night after the Roundhouse.

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Queens 2016 · the Bowery 2003

Two corners.

67th Avenue and 110th Street, Forest Hills

The Ramones Way

67 Av · 110 St. Not yet.

The corner of 67th Avenue and 110th Street, in front of Forest Hills High School, was named The Ramones Way on 30 October 2016.

The City Council passed the naming and Mayor de Blasio signed it. Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh, is a longtime local.

A long polished school corridor with murals on the walls — A third-floor corridor at Forest Hills High School, 2024. RegoParkRen · CC BY-SA 4.0

A public street corner outside Forest Hills High School. The school is for its pupils; read the sign from the pavement.

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The Bowery at East 2nd Street

Joey Ramone Place

E 2 St. Not yet.

The corner of the Bowery and East 2nd Street became Joey Ramone Place on 30 November 2003. Joey had died of cancer in 2001.

A fan, Maureen Wojciechowski, first proposed it, helped by Punk magazine’s John Holmstrom and the band’s artist Arturo Vega.

Green street signs for Joey Ramone Place and East 2nd Street on a lamppost against a blue sky — The Joey Ramone Place sign at the Bowery and East 2nd Street, 2008. Sbazzone · Public domain

A public street corner a few doors up from CBGB. Look up: the sign is mounted high on the pole.

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16 East 2nd Street, East Village · 1976

Albert’s Garden

Roberta Bayley photographed the band against a brick wall here, at a community garden on East 2nd Street, in 1976.

She was shooting for Punk magazine. Sire Records then chose the picture for the first album’s cover. Sire paid her a flat $125, which was her rent at the time.

The stone wall at the back adjoins the New York Marble Cemetery. Volunteers sometimes hold jazz nights and poetry readings here.

No copy of the cover here; the photograph is Roberta Bayley’s.

A volunteer-run community garden. If the gate is shut, look through the railings from East 2nd Street.

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A tree-lined East Village street of brick tenements with fire escapes in summer — East 2nd Street in the East Village, August 2021, further east along the street: not the loft. Kidfly182 · CC BY-SA 4.0

East 2nd Street, off the Bowery

Arturo Vega’s loft

Arturo Vega, the band’s friend and art director, put Dee Dee and Joey up at his loft nearby.

Vega designed the band’s logo and its merchandise. Joey lived on East 2nd Street, around the corner from CBGB.

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The Bowery Hotel

The Bowery, New York

At 335 Bowery, a block up the street from the old CBGB at number 315, with Joey Ramone Place in between.

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Plaza Sound, Radio City · Early 1976

Not on the stage.

The first album was made in early 1976 at Plaza Sound, a studio upstairs in the Radio City Music Hall building.

Its big main room had been the NBC Symphony Orchestra’s rehearsal room, with a pipe organ along one wall.

Guitar amps: choose a room.

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The Radio City Music Hall corner with its tall vertical sign and blue marquee — Radio City Music Hall, September 2024. DaHuzyBru · CC BY-SA 4.0. DaHuzyBru · CC BY-SA 4.0

The stage is downstairs; the record was made upstairs.

The 60-minute Radio City tour takes in the Grand Foyer and the Great Stage and ends with a Rockette. Adult tickets are $44–46.

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The studio is not open to visit. Radio City runs 60-minute tours; none were on sale for October 2026, so look at November.

Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall Tour Experience

Sixth Avenue at 50th Street, New York · Adults $44–46 · children and seniors $39–41

Sixty minutes inside the building where the first album was made upstairs: the Grand Foyer, the Great Stage and a Rockette at the end. No tours were on sale for October 2026; the calendar opens at November.

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Queens, downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood

Pin it on.

Three places that keep the band’s memory. Pick a badge and pin it to the jacket.

QUEENS ’16, in your hand.

A long pale museum building behind trees and a curving road — The Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 2018. Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0

10 April 2016 · Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

Queens Museum

Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk opened here on 10 April 2016 and ran until 31 July, beginning with the band’s roots in Queens.

It marked forty years since the first album, and its second half moved on to the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles.

A public art museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Check its opening days before you go.

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Visit

Where it is now

11 places you can visit. Arturo Vega’s loft is a private home, and the venue of the last show is not on record here; both are named and left off the map.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public street corner outside Forest Hills High School. The school is for its pupils; read the sign from the pavement.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public art museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Check its opening days before you go.

A third-floor corridor at Forest Hills High School, 2024. RegoParkRen · CC BY-SA 4.0
67th Avenue and 110th Street, Forest Hills
The Ramones Way
The corner of 67th Avenue and 110th Street, in front of Forest Hills High School, was named The Ramones Way on 30 October 2016.
A public street corner outside Forest Hills High School. The school is for its pupils; read the sign from the pavement.
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The Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 2018. Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Queens Museum
Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk opened here on 10 April 2016 and ran until 31 July, beginning with the band’s roots in Queens.
A public art museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Check its opening days before you go.
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Stay

Sleep on the Bowery or in Camden.

A hotel a block from CBGB, and rooms a walk from the Roundhouse.

The Bowery Hotel

The Bowery, New York

At 335 Bowery, a block up the street from the old CBGB at number 315, with Joey Ramone Place in between.

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Premier Inn

hub by Premier Inn London Camden

Camden High Street, London

Eighty compact rooms on Camden High Street, opened in 2023. Dingwalls and the Roundhouse are a walk up the road.

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Go there

Go inside Radio City.

The Radio City tour, and marketplace music walks in New York and Los Angeles.

Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall Tour Experience

Sixth Avenue at 50th Street, New York · Adults $44–46 · children and seniors $39–41

Sixty minutes inside the building where the first album was made upstairs: the Grand Foyer, the Great Stage and a Rockette at the end. No tours were on sale for October 2026; the calendar opens at November.

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