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1520 Sedgwick Ave. |
Morris Heights |
Bronx |
Hip hop pioneer Kool DJ Herc held his first parties here |
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234 West 56th Street |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
Early home of recorded music powerhouse Atlantic Records. |
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A Gathering of the Tribes |
East Village |
Manhattan |
Iconic East Village gallery and performance space |
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ABC No Rio |
Lower East Side |
Manhattan |
Center for volunteerism, art & activism |
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Alhambra Supper Club (site of) |
Hunts Point |
Bronx |
Latin dance and music club of the 50's and 60's |
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Alhambra Theatre and Ballroom (former) |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
The last standing of Harlem's historic dance halls |
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Almanac House |
Greenwich Village |
Manhattan |
Residence of folk revival musicians, the Almanac Singers |
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Amato Opera Theater (former) |
East Village |
Manhattan |
The "world's smallest opera house" |
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American Banknote Building |
Hunts Point |
Bronx |
Former currency minting company, now home to an arts and dance center |
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Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts |
Lower East Side |
Manhattan |
Art, concert & performance space in a historic synagogue building |
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Apollo Theater |
Harlem |
Manhattan |
Legendary music and performance venue |
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Audubon Ballroom (former) |
Washington Heights |
Manhattan |
Former theater and dance hall, site of Malcolm X's assassination (now Mary Woodward Lasker Biomedical Research Building) |
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BAMcafe |
Fort Greene |
Brooklyn |
Upstairs eatery at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that offers performances and a place to gather |
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Barbes |
Park Slope |
Brooklyn |
Neighborhood bar and performance space |
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Barron's Exclusive Club (former) |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
A popular 1920's Harlem jazz club, also known as Barron's Cabaret |
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Battery Park |
Financial District |
Manhattan |
Home to monuments, performance events and ferry docks |
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Beekman Theatre (former) |
Upper East Side |
Manhattan |
Lovely single-screen movie theater |
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Beth Ahavath Sholom, a.k.a. The Temple (site of) |
Bath Beach |
Brooklyn |
Former synagogue that hosted punk rock concerts in its basement |
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Billie Holiday Theatre |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
Brooklyn |
200-seat theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant offering an alternative to Broadway |
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Birdland |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
One of the foremost venues for bebop in the 1950s |
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Blue Note |
Greenwich Village |
Manhattan |
An important jazz venue in Greenwich Village |
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Bottom Line, The (former) |
Greenwich Village |
Manhattan |
A rock and folk music club |
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Bronx River Houses |
Bronx River |
Bronx |
Housing project important in hip hop history |
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Brooklyn Lyceum (formerly Public Bath #7) |
Park Slope |
Brooklyn |
Once a public bathhouse, now a center for dance, music and theater that includes a gym and a cafe |
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Brooklyn Paramount Theater (former) |
Downtown |
Brooklyn |
Hosted early rock 'n' roll concerts and still houses its original Wurlitzer organ |
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Caffe Cino (former) |
Greenwich Village |
Manhattan |
Where Off-Off Broadway theater got its start |
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Caravana Club/Bronx Casino/El Cerromar (former) |
Mott Haven |
Bronx |
Nightclubs that produced distinctively New York Latin music |
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Carnegie Hall |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
One of the premier concert venues in the world |
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Casino Puerto Rico/Teatro Casino (former) |
Mott Haven |
Bronx |
Popular dance and Latin music venue, and a movie and vaudeville theater |
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Casita Rincón Criollo |
Melrose |
Bronx |
The oldest and largest casita in New York |
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CBGB (former) |
East Village |
Manhattan |
The birthplace of punk rock |
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Central Park |
Central Park |
Manhattan |
Perhaps New York's most famous oasis |
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Chinatown Senior Citizens' Center |
Chinatown |
Manhattan |
A place for Chinatown seniors to participate together in traditional culture |
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City Center |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
A popular performing arts center |
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Club Tropicoro (site of) |
Longwood |
Bronx |
Latin music nightclub that also hosted political events |
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Colgate Gardens (former) |
Soundview |
Bronx |
Latin music venue where the Mambo was popular |
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Dixon Place |
Lower East Side |
Manhattan |
Performance space for original and experimental works |
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Eagle Theater |
Jackson Heights |
Queens |
Shows first-run movies from India and Pakistan |
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Fillmore East |
East Village |
Manhattan |
Major rock 'n' roll venue from 1968 to1972 |
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Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center |
Fort Greene |
Brooklyn |
Supports local seniors with services and activities, like the weekly Jazz 966 concert series |
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Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Preserves and promotes New York's Latin music heritage with music lessons, dance classes and acting classes |
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Harlem Meer |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Lake in the northeastern tip of Central Park |
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Historic Tin Pan Alley |
Midtown South |
Manhattan |
Home to the American popular music industry around 1900 |
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Hunts Point Palace |
Hunts Point |
Bronx |
A dance club for nearly a century, important for performers from mambo king Tito Puente to the first hip-hop crews in the '70s and '80s |
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Indigo Cafe and Books (former) |
Fort Greene |
Brooklyn |
Black-owned bookstore, cafe and community space, now online |
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International Longshoremen Assoc. Union Hall, Local 791 (former) |
Chelsea |
Manhattan |
Headquarters of seamen's labor union, later home of the Sanford Meisner Theater |
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Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater (former) |
East Village |
Manhattan |
Off-Broadway company that performed classic works of drama |
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Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Studios and performing space for Latino artists |
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Koster & Bial's "The Corner" (former) |
Flatiron |
Manhattan |
Site of theaters and burlesque halls closed by anti-vice police |
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La Mama Experimental Theater Club |
East Village |
Manhattan |
A theater that seeks to develop, nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance work by artists of all nations and cultures |
