{"id":12317,"date":"2026-06-11T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=12317"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:08:15","slug":"jimi-hendrix-honored-with-ny-street-after-five-decade-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/jimi-hendrix-honored-with-ny-street-after-five-decade-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimi Hendrix Honored With NY Street After Five-Decade Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jimi Hendrix in 1970 (Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s W. 8th 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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimi Hendrix<\/a> Way. An unveiling ceremony was held, June 10.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehypemagazine.com\/category\/media-stop\/happenings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newly minted<\/a> street is located in Greenwich Village, down the street from Hendrix\u2019s legendary Electric Lady Studios, which he commissioned in 1968. 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<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehypemagazine.com\/?s=jimi+hendrix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Related Article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>According to Janie, getting her older brother\u2019s name on the street he helped redefine the character of has been a long time coming. In fact, as she told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/10\/nyregion\/a-street-called-jimi-hendrix-way.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, her family started working towards the commemoration \u201csoon after Jimi passed away\u201d in 1970 at the age of 27.<\/p>\n<blockquote><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 class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2014\/pr14_015.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2014\/pr14_015.htm\" 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;}\">eventually happened<\/a>, 12 years ago. All in due time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read about the Jimi Hendrix Experience\u2019s <em>Electric Ladyland<\/em> at No. 13 in <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1960s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/nyc-street-named-for-jimi-hendrix-after-56-year-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimi Hendrix in 1970 (Getty Images) New York City\u2019s W. 8th Street has a new name in honor of one of the city\u2019s myriad musical luminaries: Jimi Hendrix Way. An unveiling ceremony was held, June 10. The newly minted street is located in Greenwich Village, down the street from Hendrix\u2019s legendary Electric Lady Studios, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":12319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[1610,1611,51],"class_list":["post-12317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-street-naming","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12320,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions\/12320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}