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"Despite all the great things people say about Area, I found that it looked like a suburban mall inside...I think that something was really lost there."
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Brooke Delarco, RIP
"CBGB had those big, swinging saloon doors; you’d open the doors and all of a sudden this rush would hit you in the face. I don't want to say 'Star…
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Richard Vasquez (The Choice)
"I was in my early forties, and I was looking for a very rich, abundant social life...I owned a nice building, I was pretty much set, and I could goof…
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Matthew Shipp
"I never envisioned myself becoming part of a big club scene, because I was a 'serious jazz musician,' and that was my life. But it happened instantly."
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Kool Moe Dee
"Hip-hop is like a sandwich arguing with itself, saying the bread is more important than the meat or the meat is more important than the bread...[T]he…
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DJ Olive
"Williamsburg really had this alternate [reality where] you didn't know what day of the week it was. It had this feeling of permanent vacation that I've…
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Amy Rigby
"You always you read about how dangerous the city was, but there was...really no reason for criminal activity to be going on in that part of the…
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Greg Tate
"People try to act like the music stopped at a certain point, because it stopped for the young white rebels at a time. But that’s when BRC and hip-hop…
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