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At the 40th Grammy Awards here on 25 February 1998, Erykah Badu and Fiona Apple both performed and won, per Wikipedia and the Recording Academy, and Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed the stage as Shawn Colvin took it to accept Song of the Year, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_MTV_Video_Music_Awards","sourceName":"Wikipedia","also":[{"source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Annual_Grammy_Awards","sourceName":"Wikipedia"},{"source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%27_Dirty_Bastard","sourceName":"Wikipedia"},{"source":"https://www.grammy.com/awards/40th-annual-grammy-awards","sourceName":"Recording Academy"}],"hood":"Q11249","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q6923428","kind":"school","name":"Mount Saint Michael Academy","lat":40.8986,"lon":-73.8422,"people":["Q216936"]},{"id":"book-of-hov-central-library","kind":"moment","name":"“The Book of HOV”, Central Library","lat":40.672,"lon":-73.968,"people":["Q62766"],"years":"2023","note":"The Book of HOV, a tribute exhibition created by Roc Nation to honor Jay-Z’s career, wrapped Brooklyn’s Central Library in his lyrics. In its run of nearly five months it drew more than 600,000 visitors, and its last day, 4 December, brought nearly 11,000, the most in a single day in the library’s history, per Brooklyn Public Library. It opened on 14 July 2023, per Brooklyn Paper.","source":"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/book-hov-draws","sourceName":"Brooklyn Public Library","also":[{"source":"https://www.brooklynpaper.com/exhibit-book-of-hov-jay-z-bpl/","sourceName":"Brooklyn Paper"},{"source":"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/book-hov","sourceName":"Brooklyn Public Library"}],"hood":"Q2159619","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"Q5546181","kind":"school","name":"George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School","lat":40.6954,"lon":-73.986,"people":["Q62766","Q179157"]},{"id":"Q6758577","kind":"project","name":"Marcy Houses","lat":40.697,"lon":-73.951,"people":["Q62766"]},{"id":"rucker-park","kind":"moment","name":"Rucker Park","lat":40.829,"lon":-73.936,"people":["Q62766","Q194220","Q309888"],"years":"2002–2003","note":"Holcombe Rucker Park, which ABC7 calls the heart and soul of New York City basketball, is also entrenched in hip-hop culture. In 2003 the Rucker teams of Jay-Z and Fat Joe both reached the finals, per ABC7. Nas stops at the court in his 2002 video for “Made You Look”, per Time Out.","source":"https://abc7ny.com/post/hip-hop-50-nyc-landmarks-places-to-visit-in-things-do/13625869/","sourceName":"ABC7","also":[{"source":"https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/watch-the-best-music-videos-shot-in-new-york-city","sourceName":"Time Out"}],"hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"empire-state-of-mind-times-square","kind":"moment","name":"Times Square, “Empire State of Mind”","lat":40.756,"lon":-73.987,"people":["Q62766","Q121507"],"years":"2009","note":"NYC Tourism counts Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” among the iconic hip-hop videos shot in Times Square. Hype Williams’s 2009 video cuts full-color shots of the two performing in Times Square into black-and-white New York, and ends with them on the red steps of the TKTS pavilion, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://www.nyctourism.com/articles/a-guide-to-hip-hop-culture-in-manhattan-past-and-present/","sourceName":"NYC Tourism","watch":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk6014HuxcE","also":[{"source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_of_Mind","sourceName":"Wikipedia"}],"hood":"Q11249","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q3072747","kind":"school","name":"Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School","lat":40.77417,"lon":-73.98556,"people":["Q162202","Q271385","Q294979","Q236112","Q322129","Q7297327","Q5133171"]},{"id":"biggie-king-of-ny-mural","kind":"mural","name":"“King of New York” mural","lat":40.686,"lon":-73.954,"people":["Q179157"],"years":"2015","note":"Created in 2015 by Rocko and Zimer of Spread Art NYC; legend has it this is one of the corners where a teenage Biggie freestyled, per NYC Tourism.","source":"https://nyctourism.com/places/the-notorious-big-king-of-new-york-mural/","sourceName":"NYC Tourism","watch":"https://kottke.org/13/11/17-year-old-biggie-smalls-freestyling","hood":"Q1156982","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"biggie-murals-fulton-st-james","kind":"mural","name":"Biggie murals at Fulton and St. James","lat":40.683,"lon":-73.964,"people":["Q179157"],"years":"2022","note":"Two murals, one of Christopher Wallace as a child and one of Biggie in his signature sweater, painted in less than a week by Eli Salome-Diaz, Carlo Niece and Benny Guerra and unveiled on March 9, 2022, the 25th anniversary of his death, per Brooklyn Downtown Star.","source":"https://brooklyndowntownstar.com/news_dts/2022/03/17/biggiesmalls/","sourceName":"Brooklyn Downtown Star","hood":"Q3680818","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"birdels-records","kind":"venue","name":"Birdel’s Records","lat":40.679,"lon":-73.949,"people":["Q179157"],"years":"1980–1989","note":"A Bed-Stuy record store that closed in 2011. Hardy Joe Long, who began working at the shop as a clerk in 1957 and later owned it, remembers a young Christopher Wallace, later the Notorious B.I.G., coming in during the 1980s, and letting him take records into the basement to listen with a friend, per DNAinfo.","source":"https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130510/bed-stuy/cb3-votes-rename-stretch-of-nostrand-avenue-after-birdels-record-shop/","sourceName":"DNAinfo","hood":"Q1156982","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"Q4917627","kind":"school","name":"Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School","lat":40.6869,"lon":-73.9692,"people":["Q179157"]},{"id":"biggie-wallace-courts","kind":"moment","name":"Christopher “Biggie” Wallace Courts","lat":40.682,"lon":-73.959,"people":["Q179157"],"years":"2017","note":"The Notorious B.I.G. played at Crispus Attucks Playground, and in August 2017 its basketball courts were named the Christopher “Biggie” Wallace Courts, per NYC Parks.","source":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/hip-hop","sourceName":"NYC Parks","hood":"Q3680818","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"knitting-factory-houston","kind":"venue","name":"Knitting Factory (East Houston Street)","lat":40.725,"lon":-73.995,"people":["Q215855","Q2170880"],"years":"1992","note":"Michael Dorf opened the Knitting Factory in 1987 on East Houston Street as a cafe and avant-garde performance space, and moved it to Leonard Street in 1994, per amNewYork. Jeff Buckley played the club in March and April 1992; four songs from those shows, three of them from a WFMU broadcast on 22 March, are on Songs to No One 1991–1992, his album with Gary Lucas, per Wikipedia. Roy Nathanson and David Cale’s Deep in a Dream of You had its New York premiere here that year, per Wikipedia’s article on Nathanson.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_to_No_One_1991%E2%80%931992","sourceName":"Wikipedia","also":[{"source":"https://www.amny.com/news/the-knit-cutting-out-of-tribeca-this-week","sourceName":"amNewYork"},{"source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Nathanson","sourceName":"Wikipedia"}],"hood":"Q513254","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"beacon-theatre","kind":"venue","name":"Beacon Theatre","lat":40.781,"lon":-73.981,"people":["Q4028","Q93341","Q235066","Q299208"],"years":"1929","note":"A 1929 movie palace on Broadway that began presenting live entertainment in 1966. Miles Davis played it in the early 1980s and Laurie Anderson during that decade, Sonny Rollins in the second half of the 1990s, and Paul Simon gave the first performances after its 2009 reopening, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Theatre_(New_York_City)","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q429687","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"brill-building","kind":"studio","name":"Brill Building","lat":40.761,"lon":-73.985,"people":["Q4028","Q312743","Q212762"],"years":"1962","note":"By 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.","source":"https://www.history.com/articles/brill-building-pop-music-songwriters","sourceName":"HISTORY","also":[{"source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Building","sourceName":"Wikipedia"}],"hood":"Q11249","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5468962","kind":"school","name":"Forest Hills High School","lat":40.7298,"lon":-73.845,"people":["Q4028","Q4039","Q312387","Q212762","Q1344554","Q2601783"]},{"id":"forest-hills-stadium","kind":"venue","name":"Forest Hills Stadium","lat":40.72,"lon":-73.847,"people":["Q4028","Q4636","Q4039","Q214959","Q107008"],"years":"1964","note":"The West Side Tennis Club’s 14,000-seat stadium, built in 1923, is also a concert venue. A poster for its 1964 concerts billed Barbra Streisand, Count Basie and Harry Belafonte, and in the 1960s and 1970s it hosted Simon & Garfunkel among others. It reopened for concerts in 2013, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hills_Stadium","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q1202211","borough":"Queens"},{"id":"concert-in-central-park-1981","kind":"moment","name":"The Concert in Central Park, the Great Lawn","lat":40.782,"lon":-73.966,"people":["Q4028","Q4039"],"years":"1981","note":"On 19 September 1981 Simon & Garfunkel played a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn for an estimated 500,000 people. Proceeds went toward the park’s redevelopment and upkeep, and the show became the live album The Concert in Central Park, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_in_Central_Park","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":null,"borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5384959","kind":"school","name":"Erasmus Hall High School","lat":40.64944,"lon":-73.95778,"people":["Q4636","Q457850","Q454573","Q2884566","Q6369513"]},{"id":"Q7330875","kind":"school","name":"Richmond Hill High School","lat":40.695,"lon":-73.8336,"people":["Q1545","Q81698554"]},{"id":"st-george-theatre","kind":"venue","name":"St. George Theatre","lat":40.642,"lon":-74.077,"people":["Q1545","Q296729","Q4039","Q312743","Q726057"],"years":"1929","note":"A picture palace on Staten Island’s North Shore, opened on 4 December 1929 and renovated in 2004. Tony Bennett, Cyndi Lauper, Art Garfunkel, Neil Sedaka and Tony Orlando are among those who have performed there, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George_Theatre","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":null,"borough":"Staten Island"},{"id":"Q6749290","kind":"project","name":"Manhattan Plaza","lat":40.7592,"lon":-73.99268,"people":["Q121507","Q66762445","Q99588294"]},{"id":"Q7248009","kind":"school","name":"Professional Performing Arts School","lat":40.76154,"lon":-73.98851,"people":["Q121507","Q377206","Q29834614"]},{"id":"Q4874340","kind":"school","name":"Bayard Rustin Educational Complex","lat":40.7433,"lon":-74.0025,"people":["Q129910","Q315784","Q3615437"]},{"id":"nas-queensmatic-mural","kind":"mural","name":"Nas “Queensmatic” mural","lat":40.756,"lon":-73.941,"people":["Q194220"],"years":"2016","note":"A portrait of Nas with the word “Queensmatic”, which went up in October 2016 on the corner of 21st Street and 40th Avenue, across the street from the Queensbridge Houses. It was a collaboration between Jorit Agoch, Lawrence “Myse” Hosannah Hannah, FCee and Eli Eos, according to Eos, per DNAinfo.","source":"https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161011/long-island-city/nas-mural-queensbridge-jorit-agoch-street-art","sourceName":"DNAinfo","hood":"Q1190597","borough":"Queens"},{"id":"Q1292552","kind":"project","name":"Queensbridge Houses","lat":40.755,"lon":-73.945,"people":["Q194220","Q274018","Q1347312","Q691076","Q281396","Q859139","Q6003519","Q881714"]},{"id":"bam-jazz","kind":"venue","name":"Brooklyn Academy of Music","lat":40.686,"lon":-73.978,"people":["Q1779","Q109612","Q107008","Q317122"],"years":"1956–1981","note":"Its “Jazz at the Academy” series brought Count Basie and Louis Armstrong to the Opera House stage from 1956, and a late-1960s series featured Thelonious Monk and Tito Puente, per BAM's archivist.","source":"https://blog.bam.org/2012/01/jazz-at-bam-19561981.html","sourceName":"BAM","hood":"Q5471250","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"carnegie-hall","kind":"venue","name":"Carnegie Hall","lat":40.765,"lon":-73.98,"people":["Q1779","Q93341","Q1768","Q131861","Q310476","Q13003"],"years":"1891","note":"Opened in 1891. By the 1900s Sergei Rachmaninoff was among those staging or performing their own music here, the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini frequently recorded in the Main Hall, and Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis are among the many jazz performers who have played here, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q11249","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q124974979","kind":"street","name":"Louis Armstrong Place","lat":40.75403,"lon":-73.86124,"people":["Q1779"]},{"id":"cotton-club-harlem","kind":"venue","name":"The Cotton Club (Harlem)","lat":40.819,"lon":-73.937,"people":["Q1779","Q112307"],"years":"1923–1936","note":"The Cotton Club stood on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, before it moved to Broadway. Black people at first could not get in, though it featured many of the most popular Black entertainers of the era; Lena Horne began here as a chorus girl at sixteen, per Wikipedia. Louis Armstrong played the Harlem club often, per Clio.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Club","sourceName":"Wikipedia","also":[{"source":"https://www.theclio.com/entry/19466","sourceName":"Clio"}],"hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"town-hall","kind":"venue","name":"The Town Hall","lat":40.756,"lon":-73.984,"people":["Q1779","Q131861","Q242387"],"years":"1921","note":"Opened in 1921 as a lecture hall, it became one of the city’s top music venues. Sergei Rachmaninoff appeared in the 1931–32 season of its Endowment Series and Lily Pons in 1938, and a Louis Armstrong concert here in 1947 led to the formation of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Town_Hall_(New_York_City)","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q11249","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"birdland-original","kind":"venue","name":"Birdland (the first club)","lat":40.763,"lon":-73.983,"people":["Q93341","Q214959","Q109612","Q107008","Q586994"],"years":"1949–1965","note":"Named for Charlie Parker, it opened just north of West 52nd Street in December 1949 with Harry Belafonte and Lennie Tristano on the bill. The Count Basie Orchestra was a regular booking and recorded Basie at Birdland here, and Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis appeared. It closed in 1965; today’s Birdland is on West 44th Street, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdland_(New_York_jazz_club)","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q11249","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"brooklyn-paramount","kind":"venue","name":"Brooklyn Paramount","lat":40.69,"lon":-73.981,"people":["Q93341","Q1768"],"years":"1928–1962","note":"Opened in 1928 as a movie palace that occasionally hosted concerts. Michael Hittman, an anthropology professor, says it helped introduce Brooklyn to jazz, with artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Paramount","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q5471250","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"columbia-30th-street-studio","kind":"studio","name":"Columbia 30th Street Studio","lat":40.743,"lon":-73.979,"people":["Q93341","Q109612"],"years":"1948–1981","note":"Columbia Records’ studio in a former church, nicknamed “The Church”, from 1948 to 1981. Miles Davis recorded almost exclusively here during his years under contract to Columbia, including Kind of Blue (1959), and Thelonious Monk recorded here too. The building was later demolished, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_30th_Street_Studio","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q1501208","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"fillmore-east","kind":"venue","name":"Fillmore East","lat":40.728,"lon":-73.989,"people":["Q93341","Q353023"],"years":"1968–1971","note":"Bill Graham’s rock theatre on Second Avenue, open from March 1968 to June 1971. Miles Davis’s band opened for Laura Nyro here on four nights in June 1970, recorded for Miles Davis at Fillmore, and Taj Mahal played eight shows, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_East","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q1043326","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"blue-coronet","kind":"venue","name":"The Blue Coronet","lat":40.68,"lon":-73.953,"people":["Q93341","Q109612","Q463113"],"years":"1969","note":"A Bed-Stuy jazz club, now shut. Its owner told The Independent Ear that Miles Davis played there regularly, that Thelonious Monk drew crowds, and that Etta Jones played it many times. A 1969 bootleg of Davis's quintet is the only known live recording made at the club, per The Independent Ear.","source":"https://www.openskyjazz.com/2011/06/who-shot-miles/","sourceName":"The Independent Ear","hood":"Q1156982","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"village-gate","kind":"venue","name":"The Village Gate","lat":40.728,"lon":-74,"people":["Q93341","Q299208","Q317122","Q740099","Q57247","Q935746"],"years":"1958–1994","note":"Art D’Lugoff’s club at Bleecker and Thompson Streets, 1958 to 1994. It featured musicians including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and Edgard Varèse, and the Alegre label held events there that led to live records, among them the Tico All-Stars’ Descargas (1966) with Tito Puente, Ray Barretto and Joe Cuba. In 2008 its downstairs space reopened as (Le) Poisson Rouge, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Gate","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q7321029","kind":"school","name":"Rhodes Preparatory School","lat":40.7615,"lon":-73.9762,"people":["Q228968"]},{"id":"Q7588339","kind":"school","name":"St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School","lat":40.8073,"lon":-73.966,"people":["Q228968","Q16691327"]},{"id":"Q14706352","kind":"school","name":"Herbert H. Lehman High School","lat":40.8405,"lon":-73.8392,"people":["Q29033668","Q1455261"]},{"id":"Q4757463","kind":"school","name":"Andrew Jackson High School","lat":40.69831,"lon":-73.74617,"people":["Q52440","Q462735","Q6491131"]},{"id":"Q137048962","kind":"project","name":"Metro North Plaza","lat":40.7872,"lon":-73.9431,"people":["Q26625"]},{"id":"sobs-varick-street","kind":"venue","name":"SOB’s (Sounds of Brazil)","lat":40.728,"lon":-74.004,"people":["Q26625","Q378858","Q317122","Q1282931"],"years":"1982","note":"Larry Gold opened SOB’s in June 1982, on what was then a barren stretch at Varick and Houston Streets, to expose as many people as possible to the music of the Afro-Latino diaspora. Its reputation began to grow with performances by Latin legends such as Tito Puente, Marc Anthony, Celia Cruz and Eddie Palmieri, per Wikipedia. Gil Scott-Heron began performing live again with a show here on 13 September 2007, per Wikipedia’s article on him.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOB%27s","sourceName":"Wikipedia","also":[{"source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron","sourceName":"Wikipedia"}],"hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"brooklyn-moon-cafe","kind":"venue","name":"Brooklyn Moon Cafe","lat":40.687,"lon":-73.975,"people":["Q223875","Q38875"],"years":"1995","note":"Opened in January 1995; its Friday open-mic poetry night began a few months later. Erykah Badu and Mos Def are among the well-known names who performed and hung out there, per BK Reader.","source":"https://www.bkreader.com/featured-news/this-you-cant-miss-local-stars-come-out-to-help-save-iconic-brooklyn-moon-cafe-8545280","sourceName":"BK Reader","watch":"https://www.factmag.com/2017/02/21/erykah-badu-first-open-mic-performance-1995/","hood":"Q5471250","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"electric-lady-studios","kind":"studio","name":"Electric Lady Studios","lat":40.733,"lon":-73.999,"people":["Q223875","Q295542"],"years":"1970","note":"Commissioned by Jimi Hendrix and opened in 1970. Paul Stanley recorded demos here in 1971 with Wicked Lester and returned with Kiss to make Dressed to Kill (1975); in the Soulquarians era Erykah Badu made Mama’s Gun (2000) here, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Lady_Studios","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q7338137","kind":"school","name":"Riverdale Country School","lat":40.8997,"lon":-73.9009,"people":["Q181683"]},{"id":"bitter-end","kind":"venue","name":"The Bitter End","lat":40.728,"lon":-73.999,"people":["Q181683","Q2033344","Q466386","Q1133611","Q703905"],"years":"1961","note":"Opened in 1961 as a no-alcohol showcase; Peter, Paul and Mary made their debut here that year, and Carly Simon was among those who played it in the ’60s and ’70s. In the summer of 1975 late-night jams with Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Bobby Neuwirth set the stage for the Rolling Thunder Revue, per NYC Tourism.","source":"https://www.nyctourism.com/nightlife/the-bitter-end/","sourceName":"NYC Tourism","hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5146978","kind":"school","name":"Collegiate School","lat":40.78333,"lon":-73.98111,"people":["Q425821"]},{"id":"Q4722594","kind":"project","name":"Alfred E. Smith Houses","lat":40.711,"lon":-73.999,"people":["Q311306"]},{"id":"harlem-cultural-festival-1969","kind":"moment","name":"Harlem Cultural Festival, Mount Morris Park","lat":40.804,"lon":-73.944,"people":["Q311306","Q740099"],"years":"1969","note":"Six free Sunday concerts in Mount Morris Park in the summer of 1969, known informally as “Black Woodstock” and the subject of the 2021 documentary Summer of Soul. Ray Barretto was among the performers, and a young Luther Vandross sang with Listen My Brother in the final week, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Cultural_Festival","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q14707787","kind":"school","name":"William Howard Taft High School","lat":40.8403,"lon":-73.9111,"people":["Q311306"]},{"id":"Q5195763","kind":"school","name":"Curtis High School","lat":40.6453,"lon":-74.0817,"people":["Q52447"]},{"id":"Q28229242","kind":"project","name":"Stapleton Houses","lat":40.6224,"lon":-74.0815,"people":["Q52447"]},{"id":"wu-tang-clan-district","kind":"moment","name":"Wu-Tang Clan District","lat":40.615,"lon":-74.085,"people":["Q52447","Q336924","Q320167","Q733198"],"years":"2019","note":"The sign for the Wu-Tang Clan District stands at the corner of Targee Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in Park Hill, where the video for “Can It All Be So Simple” was filmed. City officials, fans and several of the group’s members gathered for its unveiling in May 2019, after a unanimous City Council vote, per 6sqft.","source":"https://www.6sqft.com/staten-island-intersection-is-renamed-to-honor-legacy-of-the-wu-tang-clan/","sourceName":"6sqft","hood":"Q5612424","borough":"Staten Island"},{"id":"wu-tang-clan-mural","kind":"mural","name":"Wu-Tang Clan mural","lat":40.626,"lon":-74.077,"people":["Q52447","Q336924","Q320167"],"years":"2021","note":"Will Power’s 100-foot wall of ten hand-painted portraits of the group’s members took ten days to complete and was unveiled in June 2021, per NY1. NYC Tourism names RZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Raekwon among the founding members front and center, and says the wall can be seen from Tappen Park.","source":"https://www.nyctourism.com/places/wu-tang-clan-mural/","sourceName":"NYC Tourism","also":[{"source":"https://ny1.com/nyc/staten-island/news/2021/06/03/new-wu-tang-clan-tribute-unveiled-on-staten-island-","sourceName":"NY1"}],"hood":"Q7600483","borough":"Staten Island"},{"id":"maxs-kansas-city","kind":"venue","name":"Max’s Kansas City","lat":40.737,"lon":-73.988,"people":["Q215026","Q379802","Q57774","Q1266083"],"years":"1965–1981","note":"Mickey Ruskin opened this restaurant and club on Park Avenue South in 1965; it closed in 1974 and reopened in 1975 under Tommy Dean Mills, until 1981. Debbie Harry was a waitress here; Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye opened for Phil Ochs on New Year’s Day 1974; and after it reopened it became one of the birthplaces of punk, with bands from the Ramones and Blondie to Klaus Nomi, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%27s_Kansas_City","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q1191972","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"apollo-amateur-night-1934","kind":"venue","name":"Apollo Theater","lat":40.81,"lon":-73.95,"people":["Q1768"],"years":"1934","note":"On 21 November 1934 the teenaged Ella Fitzgerald, a would-be dancer, decided on the Amateur Night stage to sing instead. She faltered, tried again with the emcee Ralph Cooper’s help, and won; within the year Chick Webb had discovered her, per HISTORY.","source":"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-21/ella-fitzgerald-wins-amateur-night-at-harlems-apollo-theater","sourceName":"HISTORY","hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"savoy-ballroom","kind":"venue","name":"Savoy Ballroom","lat":40.817,"lon":-73.938,"people":["Q1768","Q107008"],"years":"1926–1958","note":"The ballroom on Lenox Avenue between 140th and 141st Streets was open from 1926 to 1958. Ella Fitzgerald, fresh from a 1934 talent show win at the Apollo, became the teenage singer with Chick Webb’s house band, and in 1938 Count Basie’s band challenged Webb’s. A plaque for the ballroom was unveiled on the block in 2002, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoy_Ballroom","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5330110","kind":"school","name":"Eastern District High School","lat":40.712,"lon":-73.9394,"people":["Q302762"]},{"id":"copacabana-original","kind":"venue","name":"The Copacabana (first club)","lat":40.764,"lon":-73.972,"people":["Q302762","Q214959","Q297816"],"years":"1940–1992","note":"Opened in 1940 on East 60th Street, it at first barred black customers: Harry Belafonte, then in the Navy, was refused entry in 1944, and returned in the 1950s as a headliner. Sammy Davis Jr. broke attendance records here in May 1964, and Barry Manilow’s 1978 song “Copacabana” is named after the club, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copacabana_(nightclub)","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q455587","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q751612","kind":"school","name":"Bronx High School of Science","lat":40.87833,"lon":-73.89083,"people":["Q311267"]},{"id":"Q12060065","kind":"school","name":"High School of Art and Design","lat":40.75917,"lon":-73.96583,"people":["Q296729","Q349420","Q15648254","Q704742","Q316562","Q24765598"]},{"id":"Q124974191","kind":"street","name":"Tony Bennett Place","lat":40.77585,"lon":-73.91029,"people":["Q296729"]},{"id":"webster-hall","kind":"venue","name":"Webster Hall","lat":40.732,"lon":-73.989,"people":["Q296729","Q214959","Q244441","Q317122","Q705847"],"years":"1953–1968","note":"Built in 1886 as a hall for hire. In the 1950s Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and Pete Seeger played here, and from 1953 to 1968 RCA ran it as a recording studio, where Harry Belafonte and Tony Bennett recorded. On 2 February 1962 Bob Dylan played harmonica here on the title track of Belafonte’s Midnight Special, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Hall","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q1043326","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5318230","kind":"school","name":"Dwight School","lat":40.7875,"lon":-73.9681,"people":["Q350511","Q522260","Q955635"]},{"id":"Q3269093","kind":"school","name":"Lycée français de New York","lat":40.76865,"lon":-73.95171,"people":["Q350511","Q1195235"]},{"id":"Q5545975","kind":"school","name":"George Washington Educational Campus","lat":40.85582,"lon":-73.92695,"people":["Q214959","Q128297","Q979347","Q2295075","Q537722","Q1239246"]},{"id":"Q14706474","kind":"school","name":"Hunter College Elementary School","lat":40.7858,"lon":-73.9542,"people":["Q1646482"]},{"id":"Q5944289","kind":"school","name":"Hunter College High School","lat":40.78581,"lon":-73.9539,"people":["Q1646482","Q347368","Q3435778","Q465629","Q435102"]},{"id":"Q5123029","kind":"school","name":"City As School","lat":40.7291,"lon":-74.0061,"people":["Q38875","Q349420","Q444096","Q16235152"]},{"id":"Q7184735","kind":"school","name":"Philippa Schuyler Middle School","lat":40.6977,"lon":-73.9193,"people":["Q38875"]},{"id":"Q3508986","kind":"school","name":"Dalton School","lat":40.78156,"lon":-73.95506,"people":["Q311238","Q108855777"]},{"id":"Q5403378","kind":"school","name":"Ethical Culture Fieldston School","lat":40.88917,"lon":-73.90639,"people":["Q311238","Q153579","Q378858"]},{"id":"Q28229248","kind":"project","name":"Forest Houses","lat":40.82504,"lon":-73.90466,"people":["Q309888","Q711978","Q528975","Q716928"]},{"id":"Q6913736","kind":"school","name":"Morris High School","lat":40.8309,"lon":-73.8997,"people":["Q309888","Q2570042"]},{"id":"Q14706200","kind":"school","name":"Brooklyn College Academy","lat":40.632,"lon":-73.9529,"people":["Q229379","Q242620","Q25095016"]},{"id":"tribe-called-quest-mural","kind":"mural","name":"A Tribe Called Quest mural","lat":40.692,"lon":-73.759,"people":["Q42025","Q1370892","Q579206","Q3063003"],"years":"2016","note":"Shortly after Phife’s death in 2016, Vince Ballentine was commissioned to create this mural picturing Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White, on the laundromat where the group filmed its “Check the Rhime” video, per NYC Tourism.","source":"https://www.nyctourism.com/places/a-tribe-called-quest-mural/","sourceName":"NYC Tourism","watch":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QWEPdgS3As","hood":"Q62295","borough":"Queens"},{"id":"Q6939655","kind":"school","name":"Murry Bergtraum High School","lat":40.71123,"lon":-74.00167,"people":["Q42025","Q579206"]},{"id":"electric-relaxation-square-diner","kind":"moment","name":"Square Diner, “Electric Relaxation”","lat":40.718,"lon":-74.007,"people":["Q42025","Q1370892","Q579206"],"years":"1994","note":"In A Tribe Called Quest’s video for “Electric Relaxation”, Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad cruise the city in a cab before pulling up to the Square Diner in Tribeca, where they order only a glass of Coke and a cup of coffee, per DNAinfo. The song was released as a single in February 1994, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160730/times-square-theater-district/best-nyc-music-videos-of-1990s-2000s-for-mtvs-consideration/","sourceName":"DNAinfo","watch":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHRnvjCkTsw","also":[{"source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Relaxation","sourceName":"Wikipedia"}],"hood":"Q766014","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q7247941","kind":"school","name":"Professional Children's School","lat":40.7705,"lon":-73.9861,"people":["Q233081","Q318339","Q683420"]},{"id":"Q2061176","kind":"school","name":"School of American Ballet","lat":40.77417,"lon":-73.98417,"people":["Q233081"]},{"id":"cafe-wha","kind":"venue","name":"Cafe Wha?","lat":40.73,"lon":-74.001,"people":["Q979347","Q466386","Q1173376"],"years":"1959","note":"Opened in 1959 in a basement on MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane. Dave Van Ronk played here early in his career, Mary Travers was a waitress here before Peter, Paul and Mary, Tiny Tim played two weeks in 1962, and on Richie Havens’s recommendation the club hired Jimi Hendrix in 1966, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Wha%3F","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5497672","kind":"project","name":"Frederick Douglass Houses","lat":40.79757,"lon":-73.96466,"people":["Q294979"]},{"id":"Q17019949","kind":"school","name":"Manhattan Country School","lat":40.7878,"lon":-73.9549,"people":["Q294979"]},{"id":"Q7828472","kind":"school","name":"Tottenville High School","lat":40.5278,"lon":-74.1925,"people":["Q16185856"]},{"id":"Q7403635","kind":"school","name":"Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy","lat":40.9039,"lon":-73.9111,"people":["Q229274","Q340527"]},{"id":"cbgb","kind":"venue","name":"CBGB","lat":40.725,"lon":-73.992,"people":["Q312387","Q346607","Q317262","Q366900"],"years":"1974","note":"On 16 August 1974 the Ramones (Dee Dee, Johnny, Tommy and Joey) took the CBGB stage for the first time, and afterwards became the club’s first regulars. CBGB closed in October 2006; in 2013 its building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, per 6sqft.","source":"https://www.6sqft.com/on-this-day-in-1974-the-ramones-played-their-first-gig-at-cbgb-in-the-east-village/","sourceName":"6sqft","hood":"Q513254","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"joey-ramone-place","kind":"moment","name":"Joey Ramone Place","lat":40.726,"lon":-73.991,"people":["Q312387"],"years":"2003","note":"The corner of the Bowery and East Second Street became Joey Ramone Place on 30 November 2003, per Ultimate Classic Rock. The sign may be the city’s most stolen: the fourth time it was put back up, it was raised eight feet, per NBC New York.","source":"https://www.nbcnewyork.com/local/joey-ramone-street-sign/2115426/","sourceName":"NBC New York","also":[{"source":"https://ultimateclassicrock.com/10-years-ago-joey-ramone-gets-a-street-named-after-him-in-nyc/","sourceName":"Ultimate Classic Rock"}],"hood":"Q513254","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"ramones-ramp-mural","kind":"mural","name":"Ramones mural, the Thorneycroft Ramp","lat":40.729,"lon":-73.853,"people":["Q312387","Q346607","Q317262","Q366900","Q3311856"],"years":"2016","note":"Ori Carino’s black-and-white mural at the Thorneycroft Ramp, a path to the roof of a garage at the Thorneycroft Apartment complex, is based on Bob Gruen’s 1975 photo of the band sitting atop the ramp, where Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy and Johnny used to hang out as teenagers. It was unveiled in June 2016 during a tour organized by the Queens Museum, per DNAinfo. Joey’s brother Mickey Leigh helped unveil it, per the Queens Chronicle.","source":"https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160609/forest-hills/new-murals-recall-ramones-forest-hills-roots","sourceName":"DNAinfo","also":[{"source":"https://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/forest-hills-the-birthplace-of-punk/article_71fccd5c-9b9c-5363-9d50-ee5f025168cc.html","sourceName":"Queens Chronicle"}],"hood":"Q1202211","borough":"Queens"},{"id":"ramones-way","kind":"moment","name":"The Ramones Way","lat":40.73,"lon":-73.845,"people":["Q312387","Q346607","Q317262","Q366900"],"years":"2016","note":"The intersection of 67th Avenue and 110th Street, in front of Forest Hills High School, was named The Ramones Way in October 2016. Joey, Tommy, Dee Dee and Johnny went to school here in the 1960s, and it is where they first met and formed the band, per NY1.","source":"https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2016/10/30/queens-intersection-near-the-real--rock--n--roll-high-school--where-an-iconic-punk-band-was-formed--renamed-the-ramones-way","sourceName":"NY1","hood":"Q1202211","borough":"Queens"},{"id":"cafe-society","kind":"venue","name":"Café Society","lat":40.733,"lon":-74.002,"people":["Q112307","Q956275"],"years":"1938–1948","note":"Barney Josephson’s club on Sheridan Square, open from 1938 to 1948, prided itself on treating black and white customers equally. Josephson helped launch Lena Horne’s career, and Josh White, the club’s defining star in the early 1940s, headed the bill for four years. Billie Holiday first sang “Strange Fruit” here, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Society","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5564567","kind":"school","name":"Girls' High School","lat":40.6815,"lon":-73.9496,"people":["Q112307"]},{"id":"lena-horne-bandshell","kind":"venue","name":"Lena Horne Bandshell","lat":40.663,"lon":-73.977,"people":["Q112307"],"years":"2021","note":"The Prospect Park Bandshell was renamed in 2021 for Lena Horne, who was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant. It is home to BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, New York’s longest-running free outdoor performing arts festival, per the Prospect Park Alliance.","source":"https://www.prospectpark.org/prospect-park-bandshell-renamed-lena-horne/","sourceName":"Prospect Park Alliance","hood":"Q2607610","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"Q5244175","kind":"school","name":"DeWitt Clinton High School","lat":40.8811,"lon":-73.8865,"people":["Q378858","Q310476","Q27927826","Q2960275","Q472436","Q18619261"]},{"id":"Q26869366","kind":"school","name":"Herman Ridder Junior High School","lat":40.83634,"lon":-73.8907,"people":["Q295542"]},{"id":"Q4669021","kind":"school","name":"Abraham Lincoln High School","lat":40.5825,"lon":-73.9681,"people":["Q312743","Q318339","Q932655"]},{"id":"great-day-in-harlem-1958","kind":"moment","name":"“A Great Day in Harlem”","lat":40.807,"lon":-73.941,"people":["Q109612","Q107008","Q299208"],"years":"1958","note":"On 12 August 1958 Art Kane photographed 57 jazz musicians for Esquire on this block of East 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, where police had blocked off the traffic. Count Basie sat down on the curb and a dozen children followed; Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins are in the picture too, per Wikipedia. In August 2021 the Amsterdam News announced a ceremony co-naming the block Art Kane Harlem 1958 Place.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem","sourceName":"Wikipedia","also":[{"source":"https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2021/08/12/great-day-harlem-street-renaming/","sourceName":"Amsterdam News"}],"hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"five-spot-cafe","kind":"venue","name":"Five Spot Café","lat":40.727,"lon":-73.991,"people":["Q109612","Q363908"],"years":"1956–1962","note":"The jazz club’s first home, on Cooper Square from 1956 to 1962. Cecil Taylor’s band played the club’s first official engagement, and on 18 July 1957 Thelonious Monk’s quartet, with John Coltrane, began a six-month residency, Monk’s first New York engagement after a long suspension of his cabaret card. The building was demolished in 1962, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Spot_Caf%C3%A9","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q513254","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"mintons-playhouse","kind":"venue","name":"Minton’s Playhouse","lat":40.805,"lon":-73.952,"people":["Q109612"],"years":"1941","note":"The nightclub in the Hotel Cecil, at St. Nicholas Avenue and West 118th Street. In 1941 its house band, formed by the drummer Kenny Clarke, included Thelonious Monk, and its Monday-night jam sessions drew bebop innovators. The building became a city landmark in 2023, per the Landmarks Preservation Commission.","source":"https://home4.nyc.gov/site/lpc/about/pr2023/lpc-designates-three-sites-with-ties-to-jazz-history.page","sourceName":"NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission","hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q3098911","kind":"school","name":"Stuyvesant High School","lat":40.71801,"lon":-74.01385,"people":["Q109612","Q921204","Q5765107"]},{"id":"toms-diner","kind":"moment","name":"Tom’s Restaurant, “Tom’s Diner”","lat":40.805,"lon":-73.965,"people":["Q236112"],"years":"1982","note":"Suzanne Vega used to go to Tom’s Restaurant, then a cheap, greasy place on 112th and Broadway, for coffee. She was in Tom’s when she thought of writing a song that was like a little film, and she wrote “Tom’s Diner” in the spring of 1982, per her essay in The New York Times. It is the same diner whose “RESTAURANT” sign is in the Seinfeld credits, she writes.","source":"https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/toms-essay/","sourceName":"The New York Times","hood":"Q748485","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"pop-smoke-mural","kind":"mural","name":"Pop Smoke mural","lat":40.637,"lon":-73.912,"people":["Q81698554"],"years":"2020","note":"A memorial to Pop Smoke on Flatlands Avenue in Canarsie, painted in July 2020 by Hattas Public Murals, a Los Angeles company, which wrote that it was “honored to be painting this powerful memorial”, per Complex.","source":"https://www.complex.com/style/2020/07/pop-smoke-tribute-mural-appears-in-brooklyn-canarsie","sourceName":"Complex","hood":"Q5031191","borough":"Brooklyn"},{"id":"Q6651525","kind":"school","name":"Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School","lat":40.72694,"lon":-74.00472,"people":["Q5364665","Q466386"]},{"id":"big-pun-mural","kind":"mural","name":"Big Pun mural","lat":40.821,"lon":-73.898,"people":["Q380656"],"years":"2000–2001","note":"Tats Cru’s memorial to their friend Christopher Rios, Big Pun, along the side of a jewelry shop, per NYC Tourism. ABC News reported in February 2001 that, for the first anniversary of his death, Tats Cru would whitewash and repaint an honorary mural painted the year before at 163rd Street and Westchester Avenue.","source":"https://www.nyctourism.com/places/big-pun-mural/","sourceName":"NYC Tourism","also":[{"source":"https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=109972","sourceName":"ABC News"}],"hood":"Q6813612","borough":"Bronx"},{"id":"big-l-coleman-way","kind":"moment","name":"Lamont “Big L” Coleman Way","lat":40.817,"lon":-73.938,"people":["Q316588"],"years":"2022","note":"The corner of 140th Street and Lenox Avenue was co-named Lamont “Big L” Coleman Way after a petition by the team behind a Big L documentary, and friends and fans gathered for the unveiling of the sign, per Complex. The ceremony was on 28 May 2022, per Okayplayer.","source":"https://www.complex.com/music/big-l-harlem-street-renaming-ceremony","sourceName":"Complex","also":[{"source":"https://www.okayplayer.com/big-l-officially-has-a-street-name-after-him-in-harlem/585371","sourceName":"Okayplayer"}],"hood":"Q189074","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q15032110","kind":"school","name":"Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics","lat":40.79417,"lon":-73.93306,"people":["Q434913","Q126927"]},{"id":"Q14707061","kind":"school","name":"New Dorp High School","lat":40.57,"lon":-74.1072,"people":["Q320167","Q5386147"]},{"id":"Q7781995","kind":"school","name":"Theodore Roosevelt High School","lat":40.8594,"lon":-73.8886,"people":["Q1455261"]},{"id":"Q4952707","kind":"school","name":"Boys and Girls High School","lat":40.679,"lon":-73.9315,"people":["Q349420"]},{"id":"Q4960329","kind":"project","name":"Brevoort Houses","lat":40.67933,"lon":-73.92258,"people":["Q349420"]},{"id":"Q7117078","kind":"school","name":"PS 6","lat":40.7776,"lon":-73.9605,"people":["Q315784","Q2033344"]},{"id":"gaslight-cafe","kind":"venue","name":"The Gaslight Cafe","lat":40.73,"lon":-74,"people":["Q315784","Q379802","Q505285","Q1173376","Q703905","Q1351527"],"years":"1958–1971","note":"A MacDougal Street coffeehouse, open from 1958 to 1971, that began as a basket house, where unpaid performers passed a basket at the end of each set and hoped to be paid. Richie Havens, José Feliciano, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Dave Van Ronk all played here between 1964 and 1966, per Wikipedia.","source":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gaslight_Cafe","sourceName":"Wikipedia","hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q5901972","kind":"school","name":"Horace Mann School","lat":40.89333,"lon":-73.89778,"people":["Q369724"]},{"id":"krs-one-mural","kind":"mural","name":"KRS-One mural","lat":40.724,"lon":-73.987,"people":["Q432552"],"years":"2023","note":"A portrait of KRS-One by the Italian street artist Jorit, on a building on 2nd Street near 1st Avenue, made in celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. Standing in front of it in January 2023, KRS-One said, “There is no award that is above this,” per FOX 5.","source":"https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-mural-honors-hip-hop-artist-krs-one","sourceName":"FOX 5 New York","hood":"Q1043326","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q8008243","kind":"school","name":"William E. Grady CTE High School","lat":40.5828,"lon":-73.9634,"people":["Q432552"]},{"id":"Q4874834","kind":"school","name":"Bayside High School","lat":40.7714,"lon":-73.7808,"people":["Q2823641","Q360485","Q1159109","Q27656442"]},{"id":"Q5344955","kind":"school","name":"Edward R. 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It was the first album recorded at the club, per NPR.","source":"https://www.npr.org/2017/11/03/561559986/sonny-rollins-spent-a-mythical-night-at-the-village-vanguard-60-years-ago-today","sourceName":"NPR","hood":"Q205380","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"Q14707097","kind":"school","name":"Newtown High School","lat":40.7409,"lon":-73.8745,"people":["Q505072","Q388156"]},{"id":"beastie-boys-square","kind":"moment","name":"Beastie Boys Square","lat":40.72,"lon":-73.989,"people":["Q2706308"],"years":"2023","note":"The corner of Rivington and Ludlow Streets is the one pictured on the Beastie Boys’ 1989 album Paul’s Boutique. Its Beastie Boys Square street sign was unveiled in September 2023 before about a thousand fans, with Mike D and Ad-Rock there, per amNewYork.","source":"https://www.amny.com/news/lower-east-side-street-co-named-beastie-boys-square/","sourceName":"amNewYork","hood":"Q1511813","borough":"Manhattan"},{"id":"open-letter-grand-central","kind":"moment","name":"Grand Central, “An Open Letter to NYC”","lat":40.753,"lon":-73.977,"people":["Q2706308"],"years":"2004","note":"The Beastie Boys’ video for “An Open Letter to NYC” romps through all five boroughs, and includes stop-motion on the steps at Grand Central, per The Spaces. 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