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La Monte Young's loft275 Church St, New York, NY 1001340.718480-74.0048100
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New York Dolls' loft119 Chrystie St, New York, NY 1000240.718810-73.9938501
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St. Augustine's Church290 Henry St, New York, NY 1000240.713830-73.9831802
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The Realist Office225 Lafayette St, New York, NY 1001240.721990-73.9968603
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Tony Conrad, Lou Reed and John Cale's apartment56 Ludlow St, New York, NY 1000240.716590-73.9898904
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Yoko Ono's Chambers Street Loft112 Chambers St, New York, NY 1000740.714990-74.0083305
La Monte Young's loft
275 Church St, New York, NY 10013
La Monte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music ensemble at the composer’s loft deep in the heart of downtown, in a liminal zone between what would become known as SoHo and Tribeca.
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New York Dolls' loft
119 Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002
Early in their career the New York Dolls threw rent parties in their Lower Manhattan loft, before performing at the Mercer Arts Center; members of the band Dance, who often opened for the Dolls, also resided in the building.
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St. Augustine's Church
290 Henry St, New York, NY 10002
St. Augustine's Church, deep in the Lower East Side, where Hampton Clanton worked in a summer youth program, which led to him being cast as the lead in Shirley Clarke's The Cool World.
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The Realist Office
225 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012
The office of Paul Krassner’s The Realist was located in the same office building as Mad magazine, whose art director John Francis Putnam wrote a regular column for The Realist titled “Modest Proposals.”
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Tony Conrad, Lou Reed and John Cale's apartment
56 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002
Tony Conrad opened his apartment on 56 Ludlow Street to fellow Theater of Eternal Music musician John Cale, who was eventually joined by another roommate, Lou Reed; several early Velvet Underground demos were recorded at this apartment.
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Yoko Ono's Chambers Street Loft
112 Chambers St, New York, NY 10007
Downtown Manhattan’s first loft events were presented by Yoko Ono at her Chambers Street Loft Series, in what is now called TriBeCa (the triangle below Canal Street).
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