{"id":529107,"date":"2026-06-11T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/529107\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:27:13","slug":"nyc-street-named-for-jimi-hendrix-after-56-year-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/529107\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Street Named for Jimi Hendrix After 56-Year Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City\u2019s West Eighth Street has a new name in honor of one of the city\u2019s myriad musical luminaries: <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/1923-jimi-hendrix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimi Hendrix<\/a> Way. An unveiling ceremony was held today, June 10, on what would have been the pioneering guitarist\u2018s 83rd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The newly minted Jimi Hendrix Way is located in Greenwich Village, down the street from Hendrix\u2019s legendary Electric Lady Studios, which he commissioned in 1968 and has . Attendees at the unveiling included Steven Van Zandt, Hendrix\u2019s longtime engineer and producer, Eddie Kramer, and Hendrix\u2019s sister, Janie. The ceremony also served as a kickoff for a new partnership between Electric Lady Studios and Van Zandt\u2019s educational nonprofit, TeachRock.<\/p>\n<p>According to Janie, getting her older brother\u2019s name on the street he redefined the character of has been a long time coming. In fact, as she told the New York Times, her family started working towards the commemoration \u201csoon after Jimi passed away\u201d in 1970 at 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to have a petition in Electric Lady Studios to sign that said, \u2018Name this street after Jimi,\u2019 and it seemed to go nowhere. We also tried to get Jimi\u2019s face on a stamp, and that <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2014\/pr14_015.htm\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2014\/pr14_015.htm&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2014\/pr14_015.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eventually happened<\/a>, 12 years ago. All in due time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read about the Jimi Hendrix Experience\u2019s Electric Ladyland at No. 13 in <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1960s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s West Eighth Street has a new name in honor of one of the city\u2019s myriad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,103899,337,5,11818,806],"class_list":["post-529107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-music","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116729115258225931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}