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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After Jerry Seinfeld had a meeting at NBC and realized he had no specific ideas for a TV show, he met up with Larry David at this diner in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. During the meeting, the two decided to make a "show about nothing," and Seinfeld was born.

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Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) inherits this abandoned train depot in Newfoundland, NJ in the 2003 film The Station Agent.

The indie producers had to rough up the exterior with crackle paint for the film, but the original structure from 1872 still stands.

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On July 12, 1996, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin were sharing a room at the Regency Hotel on Park Ave. They were also sharing heroin- the Pumpkins had recently done an Asian tour recently the readily available heroin in Thailand had revived addiction in both of them.

Shortly before midnight on July 11th, both of the musicians took some heroin. A couple of hours later, Chamberlain woke up to find Melvoin unconscious and was unable to revive him. When the paramedics, they pronounced Melvoin DOA from an overdose.

Melvoin was a multi-instrumental talent, a graduate of Julliard who played drums in the Dickies and keyboards for Prince and the Smashing Pumpkins.

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