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The loft conversions were more profitable to the landlords than industrial use. [1] By 1977, the New York City Department of City Planning found that 91.5 percent of the conversions were illegal [2] and 44.9 percent of those lofts were occupied by heads of households who were artists. [3]
Environ was a performance space that was influential during the Loft Jazz scene of the mid-1970s in NYC. It was located on Broadway in SOHO and close to two other noted Loft Jazz venues: RivBea and Ali's Alley. Environ was established by Chris Brubeck and Danny Brubeck sons and band mates of noted jazz musician Dave Brubeck.
The design of the Coty Building's six-story facade dates to a 1907–1908 renovation from Woodruff Leeming. [1]: 5 The facade is a glass wall surrounded by a frame.The first two stories have limestone-faced piers and a cornice supported by corbel brackets; they are treated as a single continuous section of the facade.
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, serving as the city's primary central business district.Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, the headquarters of the United Nations, Grand Central Terminal, and Rockefeller Center, as ...
The Loft was the location for the first underground dance party (called "Love Saves the Day") organized by David Mancuso, on February 14, 1970, in New York City.Since then, the term "The Loft" has come to represent Mancuso's own version of a non-commercial party where no alcohol, food, nor beverages are sold.
'This Day in History': 10/21/1959 - The Guggenheim Opens 56 years ago today on Oct. 21, 1959, the Guggenheim Museum sparked the curiosity of millions when its abstract design popped up on New York ...
George Loft soon opened two more stores, then added more in New York City as he moved production out of the family kitchen into a series of increasingly large factories, the latter of which culminated in a location in Long Island City. [4] On March 31, 1921, Loft, Inc., declared its initial dividend of .25 per share. [5]
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