Located in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, St. Luke's Place (a portion of Leroy St.) is a quaint and often photographed block.

Featuring brick and brownstone row houses and antique mayoral lampposts, St. Luke's Place has had many famous residents throughout the years. Edgar Allan Poe used to frequent Walk Park (across the street) in the 1830's, and it was also featured in the film Raging Bull.

The home of the Huxtables' (at least the exterior shots used) in The Cosby Show is 10 St. Luke's Place.

view full location details...

Trude Heller's was a venue at the SE corner of 6th Ave and 9th St from the early 60's to the early 80's. Named after the proprietor, Heller also owned a record label, Tru-Glo-Town Records.

Joey Dee and the Starliters played at Trude Heller's (when Peter Criss was drumming, later to play with Kiss).

A Variety column from 1968 wrote, "Salvador Dali showed up at Trude Heller's Greenwich Village fruggery with his pet ocelot for his date."

The Beastie Boys played here with Reagan Youth and Even Worse in 1980. HR from Bad Brains saw them perform, and asked the Beastie Boys to open up for Bad Brains for the final night of Max's Kansas City.

view full location details...

I always thought the 1991 3rd Bass album Derelicts of Dialect was underrated, although it does have the worst skits of any hip-hop album ever (yes, even worse than The Score by the Fugees).

The cover photo with MC Serch, Pete Nice and Richie Rich dressed as derelicts was shot under the Brooklyn Bridge. The photo is credited to Michael Lavine who has also shot cover photography for The Notorious B.I.G. (Life After Death), Outkast (Stankonia) and the infamous Dwarves album cover Blood Guts and Pussy.

view full location details...

The Kitchen is a New York art space that has existed in three different locations from 1971 to the present. It originated as a video art gallery, but evolved into a plastic and performance space, and eventually into a non-profit arts organization.

In the early 80's, the Beastie Boys first met Rick Rubin (hip-hop producer and founder of Def Jam Records) during an art show at this Kitchen location (its second home from 1973–1986). Rubin was hired as the Beastie Boys DJ, under the handle DJ Double R. Rubin would go on to produce the Beastie Boys debut LP, Licensed to Ill.

The Beastie Boys gave one of their early performances at The Kitchen on December 12, 1983

view full location details...

The Peppermint Lounge was a disco in Times Square from 1958 to 1965. It was popular in the early 60's as the origination point for the popular "Twist" dance craze. It gets referenced in Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away" when he mentions "a place/Somewhere up a New York way/Where the People are so gay". The Beatles visited the Peppermint Lounge on their first US tour in 1964.

The Peppermint Lounge changed its named several times and was a mob-run gay bar from 1965 to 1980.

In November of 1980, the Peppermint Lounge was reopened as a punk and new wave music venue. On March 15, 1981, Black Flag played their first show in New York. For many New Yorkers, this was their first exposure to this particular strain of punk rock. MCA, Mike D. and the rest of the early Beastie Boys were at this show, and they were inspired to start a hardcore band.

Legend has it that Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye were also at the show, as were a contingent of D.C. hardcore fans, who chanted "Georgetown punks!" and dominated the audience.

view full location details...