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87 Christopher Street87 Christopher St, New York, NY 1001440.733510-74.0038600
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Abbie and Anita's Apartment10 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 1000340.729070-73.9893601
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Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky's Apartment704 E 5th St, New York, NY 1000940.722540-73.9794702
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Andy Warhol's longtime residence216-218 E 75th St, New York, NY 1002140.771120-73.9584103
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Bibbe Hansen's residence709 E 6th St, New York, NY 1000940.723330-73.9784804
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Billy Name's residence272 E 7th St, New York, NY 1000940.723150-73.9772605
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Blondie's loft266 Bowery, New York, NY 1001240.723460-73.9932506
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Broadway Central Hotel673 Broadway, New York, NY40.727900-73.9952907
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Chelsea Hotel222 W 23rd St, New York, NY 1001140.744370-73.9968908
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Diane di Prima's residence229 E 4th St, New York, NY 1000940.723700-73.9829709
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Ed Sanders Residence196 Avenue A, New York, NY 1000940.729150-73.98101010
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Film-Makers’ Cooperative414 Park Ave S, New York, NY 1001640.743760-73.98410011
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Fluxhouse Cooperative16 Greene St, New York, NY 1001340.720810-74.00259012
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Harris family's residence319 E 9th St, New York, NY 1000340.728920-73.98614013
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Jack Smith's loftCanal St & Greene St, New York, NY 1001340.720390-74.00326014
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Jane Jacobs's residence555 Hudson St, New York, NY 1001440.735350-74.00625015
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Johnny Dodd and Michael Smith's apartment5 Cornelia St, New York, NY 1001440.731800-74.00151016
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La Monte Young's loft275 Church St, New York, NY 1001340.718480-74.00481017
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New York Dolls' loft119 Chrystie St, New York, NY 1000240.718810-73.99385018
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Ramones Loft6 E 2nd St, New York, NY 1000340.725590-73.99147019
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Slugger Ann's192 2nd Ave, New York, NY 1000340.731010-73.98550020
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The Loft (original location)647 Broadway, New York, NY 1001240.726820-73.99592021
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Tony Conrad, Lou Reed and John Cale's apartment56 Ludlow St, New York, NY 1000240.716590-73.98989022
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Videofreex's loft94 Prince St, New York, NY 1001240.724550-73.99881023
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Westbeth Artists Housing55 Bethune St, New York, NY 1001440.736720-74.00848024
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William Burroughs and John Giorno's "Bunker"222 Bowery, New York, NY 1001240.722140-73.99374025
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Yoko Ono's Chambers Street Loft112 Chambers St, New York, NY 1000740.714990-74.00833026
87 Christopher Street
87 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014
Harry Koutoukas’s longtime home at 87 Christopher Street is also where Lisa Jane Persky grew up and Yoko Ono lived for a short time.
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Abbie and Anita's Apartment
10 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003
Abbie and Anita Hoffman’s apartment was across the street from The Dom, and their apartment also served as the site of an infamous press conference in advance of the 1967 antiwar demonstrations in Washington, D.C.
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Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky's Apartment
704 E 5th St, New York, NY 10009
One of the apartments that Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky shared was located in a fairly rough part of the Lower East Side.
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Andy Warhol's longtime residence
216-218 E 75th St, New York, NY 10021
Andy Warhol’s longtime residence on East Seventy-Fifth Street, in the tonier Upper East Side, stood in sharp contrast to the decrepit downtown environs where he socialized.
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Bibbe Hansen's residence
709 E 6th St, New York, NY 10009
Bibbe Hansen lived in several places throughout her childhood, including deep in the heart of the Lower East Side on 6th Street, between Avenues C and D, where dancer Freddie Herko and Factory custodian Billy Name lived nearby.
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Billy Name's residence
272 E 7th St, New York, NY 10009
Billy Name’s Lower East Side apartment was the site of Warhol’s 1963 silent film series, Haircut, which features Billy giving poet John Daley a haircut as James Waring and Freddie Herko watched.
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Blondie's loft
266 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
“The Blondie Loft,” as it was known on the scene, was a place for the band to rehearse and their friends to hang out before heading a block away to CBGB (it also served as the residence of Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Gary Valentine).
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Broadway Central Hotel
673 Broadway, New York, NY
The Broadway Central Hotel (which housed Art Bar in its basement) was attached to the neighboring Mercer Art Center, which was condemned after the hotel collapsed on August 3, 1973.
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Chelsea Hotel
222 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
A kind of downtown annex, this residential hotel housed many artists and bohemians through the years: poet Allen Ginsberg, philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, singer Janis Joplin, couturier Charles James, and playwrights Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Sam Shepard, to name but a few of the dozens of prominent figures who lived there at one time.
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Diane di Prima's residence
229 E 4th St, New York, NY 10009
It was at Diane di Prima’s apartment at 229 East Fourth that she and her lover LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) published their influential mimeo zine, The Floating Bear.
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Ed Sanders Residence
196 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009
Ed Sanders lived in several places on the Lower East Side throughout the 1960s, including his residence on Avenue A, where he was attacked in a case of mistaken identity during a drug deal gone wrong.
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Film-Makers’ Cooperative
414 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10016
In the early 1960s, Jonas Mekas lived loft at 414 Park Avenue South, between Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth Streets, where he began hosting Film-Makers’ Cooperative screenings, a space lined with shelves of films and an old Moviola film-editing machine that Jonas slept under to save space.
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Fluxhouse Cooperative
16 Greene St, New York, NY 10013
Fluxhouse Cooperative founder George Maciunas and his friends weren’t the first to occupy that former industrial area, but by renovating these old spaces (and fighting for the legal right to do so) they were the ones who established this practice on a wider scale.
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Harris family's residence
319 E 9th St, New York, NY 10003
Ellen Stewart helped the Harris family find their longtime apartment, located next door to her first La MaMa location (which she later kept as a rehearsal space and let the family use).
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Jack Smith's loft
Canal St & Greene St, New York, NY 10013
Jack Smith lived in what would later become known as SoHo, back when the rents were low and the city had not yet been ruined by what Smith called “landlordism.”
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Jane Jacobs's residence
555 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014
When not socializing in the White Horse Tavern, Jane Jacobs used the living room of her family apartment at 555 Hudson Street to organize against Robert Moses’s plans to build an expressway onramp through the middle of Washington Square Park.
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Johnny Dodd and Michael Smith's apartment
5 Cornelia St, New York, NY 10014
Located at 5 Cornelia Street, Johnny Dodd and Michael Smith's apartment was down the road from Caffe Cino and is most notable as the site where dancer Freddie Herko committed suicide by jumping out their window.
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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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Ramones Loft
6 E 2nd St, New York, NY 10003
Arturo Vega, who later became the Ramones’ longtime lighting designer and also created their iconic eagle logo, lived at 6 East Second Street in the same building where the Cockettes' Fayette Hauser, John Flowers, and Pam Tent, who was at the time Dee Dee Ramone's girlfriend; after Tent moved out it became a hangout known as the Ramones loft.
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Slugger Ann's
192 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
Slugger Ann’s was a dimly lit Lower East Side corner bar on Second Avenue (by East Twelfth Street) that was run by Jackie Curtis’s grandmother, who the bar was named after; Jackie sometimes crashed in the apartment behind the bar.
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The Loft (original location)
647 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
The Loft was founded in 1970 by an Italian man named David Mancuso, who ran it out of his living space (an actual loft) in order to circumvent city regulations, governing clubs, and bars; originally located at 647 Broadway in Greenwich Village, it was a short walk from Mercer Arts Center and CBGB.
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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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Videofreex's loft
94 Prince St, New York, NY 10012
After CBS hired the Videofreex to produce a pilot for an experimental television show, Subject to Change, they rented a SoHo loft above Fanelli’s and the Paula Cooper Gallery where they built a video production studio.
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Westbeth Artists Housing
55 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014
An early example of “adaptive reuse,” the old Bell Laboratories Buildings were converted in the late-1960s into Westbeth Artists Housing—where Ed Sanders moved after fleeing the increasingly grim East Village in 1970.
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William Burroughs and John Giorno's "Bunker"
222 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
Housing New York’s first Y.M.C.A. in the 1880s, by the 1970s it was occupied by writers William Burroughs and John Giorno when it was known as “the Bunker.”
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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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