The Downtown Pop Underground

Brownie's

21 E 16th St, New York, NY 10003

40.736860

-73.991260

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Cedar Tavern

85 University Pl, New York, NY 10003

40.733560

-73.993080

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El Quijote

226 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011

40.744410

-73.997120

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Fanelli's

94 Prince St, New York, NY 10012

40.724550

-73.998810

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Max's Kansas City

213 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10003

40.736870

-73.988310

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Mercer Arts Center

240 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012

40.727900

-73.995490

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Pennyfeathers

95 7th Ave S, New York, NY 10014

40.733000

-74.002840

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Phebe's

361 Bowery, New York, NY 10003

40.726800

-73.991290

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Reno Sweeney

126 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011

40.737050

-73.998660

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Yoko Ono's Chambers Street Loft

112 Chambers St, New York, NY 10007

40.714990

-74.008330

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Brownie's

21 E 16th St, New York, NY 10003

Patti Smith referred to Brownie’s vegetarian restaurant as part of downtown’s “Bermuda Triangle,” which also included the nearby Factory on Union Square and Max’s Kansas City.

Cedar Tavern

85 University Pl, New York, NY 10003

The Cedar Tavern was a Village hangout where many Abstract-Expressionist painters and other bohemians frequented.

El Quijote

226 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011

Just off the Chelsea Hotel’s lobby was El Quijote, a Spanish restaurant and bar that served inexpensive lobster and was a popular hangout.

Fanelli's

94 Prince St, New York, NY 10012

In late 1960s SoHo, one of the biggest draw was an old-fashioned bar that served inexpensive bean soup for lunch, named Fanelli’s, right beneath the Videofreex loft.

Max's Kansas City

213 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10003

Across Union Square Park from the second Factory location was a restaurant and bar named Max’s Kansas City, one of Andy Warhol’s regular haunts even before the move.

Mercer Arts Center

240 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012

Before the Mercer Arts Center collapsed in 1973, it was where underground theater, glam rock, video art, and performance art briefly intersected in the early 1970s—planting the seeds of what would become known as “punk.”

Pennyfeathers

95 7th Ave S, New York, NY 10014

Angela Boone ran Pennyfeathers, and she adopted Harry Koutoukas as the restaurant’s “house playwright,” who consumed many a roast beef sandwich, which Boone would provide for him gratis.

Phebe's

361 Bowery, New York, NY 10003

Phebe’s—located on East Fourth and Bowery, halfway between CBGB and La MaMa—was known as the “Sardi’s of Off-Off-Broadway” (the Times Square hotspot Sardi’s drew an uptown Broadway crowd).

Reno Sweeney

126 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011

Reno Sweeney was an intimate cabaret located at 126 West Thirteenth Street in Greenwich Village, where Holly Woodlawn and many other downtown acts performed.

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).