Punta Dura, an Italian restaurant in Long Island City, was the stand-in for Artie Bucco's Nuovo Vesuvio throughout all six seasons of The Sopranos. It closed down in late 2013.

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Nas reused the cover concept from his debut for his second album It Was Written showing a more current portrait superimposed on the same city block.

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The photo behind a young Nas on the iconic cover of his first album Illmatic was taken at the Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing project in North America, where Nas grew up in Queens, New York.

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This home in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens is where the Spiegelman family lived, and it's featured extensively throughout Art Spiegelman's interviews with his father in the classic graphic novel, Maus (Pantheon Books/winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize).

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