The Downtown Pop Underground

87 Christopher Street

87 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014

40.733510

-74.003860

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Charles Ludlam Theater

1 Sheridan Square, New York, NY 10014

40.732740

-74.001830

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Cherry Lane Theatre

38 Commerce St, New York, NY 10014

40.731250

-74.005310

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Jane Jacobs's residence

555 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014

40.735350

-74.006250

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Lenny's Hideaway

183 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

40.734390

-74.002700

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Ninth Circle

169 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

40.734350

-74.002430

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Pennyfeathers

95 7th Ave S, New York, NY 10014

40.733000

-74.002840

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Stonewall Inn

53 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014

40.733810

-74.002160

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Theater for the New City

113 Jane St, New York, NY 10014

40.738250

-74.009450

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Village Voice (second location)

61 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014

40.733780

-74.002470

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Westbeth Artists Housing

55 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014

40.736720

-74.008480

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White Horse Tavern

567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014

40.735660

-74.006190

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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.

Charles Ludlam Theater

1 Sheridan Square, New York, NY 10014

Located at 1 Sheridan Square, the Charles Ludlam Theater’s namesake founded the Ridiculous Theatrical Company after splitting with Play-House of the Ridiculous founder John Vaccaro.

Cherry Lane Theatre

38 Commerce St, New York, NY 10014

Off-Broadway shifted American theater from its midtown Manhattan roots after venues such as Cherry Lane Theatre drew audiences further downtown.

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.

Lenny's Hideaway

183 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

Lenny’s Hideaway, on West Tenth and Seventh Avenue, was one of the bars where Andy Warhol circulated among artists, poets, theater people, and gay crowds.

Ninth Circle

169 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

Before opening Max’s Kansas City, Mickey Ruskin managed the Ninth Circle in Greenwich Village (which in the 1970s and 1980s transformed into a well-known gay hustler bar).

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.

Stonewall Inn

53 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014

A mafia-run gay bar near Christopher Street, Stonewall became the site of the first major rebellion against police harassment in 1969—which helped spark the gay liberation movement.

Theater for the New City

113 Jane St, New York, NY 10014

Theater for the New City was founded in 1971 by Crystal Field, George Bartenieff, Theo Barnes, and Lawrence Kornfeld (who had previously worked with the Judson Poets’ Theatre); by the mid-1970s, it had become a second home for Hibiscus and the Angels of Light.

Village Voice (second location)

61 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014

The Village Voice spent the 1960s at 61 Christopher Street, in triangular corner building adjoining Sheridan Square that also housed the Stonewall Inn.

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.

White Horse Tavern

567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014

Located on Hudson Street and West Eleventh, the White Horse was primarily a workingman’s tavern until Dylan Thomas and other writers began going there in the 1950s.