Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Burt Bacharach to Kew Gardens, Queens. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 150 Burns Street
150 Burns Street, Queens: His memoir says he grew up in an apartment on the second floor of a three-story building here, a couple of blocks from Queens Boulevard.
Source: nbcnews.com
Places
- Brill Building
- Forest Hills High School, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Studio
Brill Building
1962By the early 1960s the building at Broadway and 49th Street held more than 160 music-business tenants, and songwriters including Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka and Paul Simon worked in its cramped rooms, per HISTORY. Wikipedia counts 165 music businesses in it by 1962.
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