"...a bat fluttered out of the cave, took one radar reading and headed straight for Kenny's Castaways." Tom Robbins...Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

"We went back to New York early in September and played a showcase at Kenny's Castaways. And believe it or not, we started to get some good reviews."
Steven Tyler... Walk This Way The Autobiography of Aerosmith

"On January 30, 1973, Mike Gormley, the head of publicity at Mercury Records, flew in from Chicago to see the Dolls play at Kenny's Castaways. Bob Gruen, now one of the most in-demand rock photographers in the world, began filming The Dolls at Kenny's Castaways."  
Nina Antonia... The New York Dolls Too Much Too Soon

"It was just a normal Friday night December crowd at New York's Kenny's Castaways. There was no air of great tension, no scent of earth-shaking significance about to be loosed. In fact, there were only about thirty people there to see the first show and most of them only came for the atmosphere. Bruce Springsteen was headlining and there weren't a dozen people inside who knew who he was. Outside, on the hand-drawn marquee, they'd misspelled his name. But when he began to sing it was like the ocean had calmed out and you knew a storm was brewing by the way it prickled your skin."   Racing In The Street The Bruce Springsteen Reader Edited by June Skinner Sawyers

PLAYLIST, MARY HUHN, NEW YORK POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
Playlist is glad it's there. Kenny's Castaways has hosted an array of new artists since it was founded in 1967 by Patrick Kenny...As one of the anchors of the Bleecker Street scene, the club has had a lot of no-names play there before they were big names, such as Bruce Springsteen, The New York Dolls and Aerosmith.

BIG TOWN BIG HEART, J.R. TAYLOR, DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006
...holding the 20 th annual Daddy Tapes Benefit for the American Heart Association at Kenny's Castaways in Greenwich Village. With the passing of Pat Kenny, this year's event also adds to the roster of sons honoring their fathers. "On a personal note," says Tommy Kenny-now running his father's bar-"the event's taken on a greater meaning this year. I can relate to Bill wanting to keep his father's memory alive."

THE POP LIFE DISBANDING OF THE DOLLS TELLS A TALE OF ONE CITY, JOHN ROCKWELL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, APRIL 1973
I remember one concert The Dolls gave on the Upper East Side, at the old Kenny's Castaways. A number of Dolls fans wafted uptown for the occasion, and they were a sight to see, it was an evening of burning intensity like few others I have experienced in rock, and it recreated the rude swagger of early rock better than any nineteen-fifties revival could ever do.

POSITIVELY BLEECKER STREET, PAT WADSLEY, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, SEPTEMBER 20. 1979

But it wasn't until Kenny's opened up that Bleecker Street was once more put on the map as a music center. If you wanted to hear music you headed for Bleecker Street. Kenny's blue eyes twinkle when he thinks of Bruce Springsteen's early public appearance there with the East Street Band. And he starts to howl when he tells of his straight clientele's responses to Patti Smith. "If you want to write a book. The history of music-you tell me who hasn't played here. Haight-Asbury had its day. Bleecker Street is eternal."

THE POP LIFE ROBERT PALMER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1980