Week 1: 10-mile test run to see if I can cover the terrain over the next several months in Music and Downtown New York, 1950s-60s, a book I plan to complete during this time. Reasonable time to run through the streets of Manhattan: 7:30am Sunday (8/29/2021). Key to some of the places I ran by (or near) is below.
- Canal and Allen (passed up a chance to rent a 2,000 square foot loft here for $500 a month with bff Dan in 1980)
- John Cale, Lou Reed, Tony Conrad residence (mid-1960s)
- Sonny Rollins residence (late 1950s)
- Cecil Taylor residence (1960)
- John Cage residence (early 1950s)
- Amphitheater in final concert scene in Wild Style (1982)
- Tuli Kupferberg’s (The Fugs) birthplace
- Cecil Taylor residence (mid-1950s)
- CBGB
- Sun Ra residence (1960s)
- Five Spot Café
- LeRoi and Hettie Jones residence
- Fillmore East
- The Dom/Electric Circus
- St. Marks Church in-the-bowery
- Lead Belly residence (1940s)
- Charlie Parker residence (early 1950s)
- Peace Eye Books (Ed Sanders)
- Allen Ginsberg residence (1965-)
- Charles Theater (Sun Ra debut, 1962)
- Pocket Theater (Cage-Satie marathon concert; La Monte Young w/John Cale)
- John Cohen loft
- Jean-Michel Basquiat’s residence/studio (1980s)
- Charles Mingus’s loft (mid-1960s)
- Ladies Fort (1970s)
- Studio Rivbea (1970)
- Steve Lacy residence