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.

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Both Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the video for Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" that he directed were both filmed on Stuyvesant Avenue between Lexington and Quincy in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood. Sal's Pizzeria and the Korean grocery were both sets built for the movie.

The "Bed-Stuy Do or Die" mural that was painted for the movie on the corner of Stuyvesant and Lexington Avenues is almost entirely faded and mostly obstructed by a newer building.

"Fight the Power" was written by Public Enemy for the movie and was originally on the Do the Right Thing soundtrack.

Watch PE's "Fight the Power"

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...Circa 1998.

Specifically though, Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek spend most of their time at Brooklyn's Farmer in the Deli Supermarket in between driving around in a Black Star van in the video for "Definition" off their first album.

Watch Black Star - Definition

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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.

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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.

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