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NYC - Battery Park: Battery Park Control House

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The Bowling Green IRT Control House or Battery Park Control House is located underneath Bowling Green Park at the southen end of Broadway. This entry to the subway was built in 1905 by Heins & LaFarge on the west side of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.

Along with its twin control house for the IRT station at 72nd Street and Broadway,t his building is a reminder of the glory of New York's first subway, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. Although most of the original subway's entry points had steel and glass kiosks, important stations like this one were marked with brick and stone structures meant to resemble garden pavilions.

The Battery Park Control House was designated a landmark, along with the 72nd Street Control House, by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973.

National Historic Register #80002669 (1980)

NYC - Brooklyn - Williamsburg - MÖTUG collective: OBEY Giant

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This OBEY Giant pasteup is included in the MÖTUG Collective (Monsters of the Unda-Ground) mural at Keap Street and Hope Street in Williamsburg.

OBEY Giant is a street art campaign by artist and guerrilla marketer Shepard Fairey. The campaign originated with the André the Giant Has a Posse sticker that Fairey created in 1986 in Charleston, South Carolina. Distributed by the skater community, the stickers began showing up everywhere. In 1989, while a student at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Fairey released his manifesto and the Obey Giant campaign was born. The campaign, an "experiment in phenomenology" pushed primarily through stickers and prints, has a mission to attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the campaign and their relationship with their surroundings. Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with Obey propaganda provoke thought and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer's perception and attention to detail. Over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways, most famously in with his "Hope" campaign poster for Barack Obama in the 2008 United States Presidential election.

NYC - East Village - Fillmore East :Jethro Tull and Joni Mitchell

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Previously known as the Village Theater, Bill Graham's rock palace, Filmore East, opened March 8, 1968, as an East Coast counterpart to the Fillmore West establishment in San Francisco. It quickly became "The Church of Rock and Roll," with two-show concerts several nights a week. For most of its existence, the venue had been a mainstay of the Yiddish theatre circuit; it had also been a cinema and was falling into disrepair before Graham's acquisition. Despite the deceptively small marquee and façade, the theater had a capacity of 3,664 seats.

Graham would regularly alternate acts between the two theatres; some of those acts included the Grateful Dead, The Who, The Allman Brothers Band, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Jethro Tull, Joni Mithcell, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Pink Floyd, John Mayall, Jefferson Airplane and many more. It was not unusual for a band to be booked to play two shows both Friday and Saturday nights; nearly all bands were contracted to play matinee and late shows until early 1971. The Allman Brothers Band played so many shows at Fillmore East that they are sometimes called "Bill Graham's House Band".

Many live albums were recorded at the Fillmore East, the most notable of them being At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band, considered by many to be one of the best live albums of all time. Jimi Hendrix also recorded a live album at Fillmore East with the Band of Gypsies. John Mayall's The Turning Point was also recorded here. Grateful Dead released a 4-disc set taken from their 5-night stint at the Fillmore East in April 1971, appropriately titled Ladies and Gentlemen… The Grateful Dead: Fillmore East — April 1971.

Graham closed down the Fillmore East, with its final concert taking place June 27, 1971, with the billed acts Allman Brothers, J. Giels Band, Albert King and special guests Edgar Winter's White Trash, Mountain, The Beach Boys and Country Joe McDonald in a performance which was by invitation only.

In 1980, the former Fillmore East site on Second Avenue in the East Village became the trend-setting private gay club The Saint. As of 2007 the former entrance lobby is a branch of Emigrant Savings Bank. The rest of the interior has been gutted and rebuilt as an apartment complex.

It was announced that Live Nation will bring the Fillmore name out of mothballs by opening up "The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza" at the nearby site of the former Irving Plaza on April 11, 2007.