Dave Parsons selling records on the street in the days before he started Rat Cage records.

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Originally started as a place for North Carolina punk band Th' Cigaretz to live and rehearse. Guitarist/vocalist Jerry Williams and drummer Scott Jarvis eventually were the only ones still living there when they transformed the squat into a club/rehearsal space/recording studio. The Bad Brains recorded their first album here, which was eventually released by ROIR cassettes. The people who pass through those doors are legend. Days never to be seen again on this orb.

In the picture, you can see Jerry Williams RIP on the left, in the middle of the doorway, blonde hair.

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After the aftermath of the Kentucky Derby in 1970, Thompson flew to Manhattan ("as soon as he could walk").

Warren Hinckle, editor of Scanlan's Monthly at the time, put HST in the Royalton Hotel where:

"...where we locked him down for five days in a room in the Royalton Hotel, just up 44th Street from the Scanlan's office in an abandoned ballroom above an Irish bar a block from Times Square."

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The cover of Bob Dylan's 1964 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was shot at Jones Street and West 4th St in NYC. The cover photo, shot by Don Huntstein, features a then 22-year-old Dylan walk/cuddling with artist Suze Rotollo, his girlfriend from 1961 to 1964.

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Jemaine and Bret often go to the New Zealand Consulate (actually, the East Broadway Medical Association building) to meet with their band manager, Murray, in Flight of the Conchords.

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