9. HADES (First Avenue, around Third Street). Hades doesn't exist either, but East Village head-banging rock clubs, like CBGB at 315 Bowery (which some people may not consider a head-banging venue, so don't hold me to this) do abound. My ex-husband was a rock musician and I did my time. In MISS MATCH, Match #1, Barnaby Street, takes Kitty by motorcycle to Hades and after numerous gin and tonics spins her uptown a few blocks to an all-night tattoo and piercing parlor on St. Marks Place, also known as East 8th Street. This neighborhood is the heart of the East Village. Punks, Goths, students, and elderly immigrants live and work side by side here. Many of the buildings are still old-style tenement housing. A few decades ago, before gentrification and before New York University took over a lot of territory, this was one of the densest areas of the urban jungle, where drugs and violence took a heavy toll. Now it's one of the trendiest locations in Manhattan, especially after dark because there are numerous cinemas, lounges, theatres, restaurants, bars, and late-night boutique shopping; but Dorothy, you're not in Kansas. Some things never disappear entirely.