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Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Avenue · Williamsburg, Brooklyn40.7137° N / 73.9512° W
Overview
Avant-garde and downtown-music institution, founded in Manhattan and now in Williamsburg.
The Knitting Factory opened on Houston Street in 1987 as a home for avant-garde jazz, experimental, and downtown music, and later relocated to Williamsburg. It is widely cited within the city's experimental-music history across genres. Its earliest addresses are not all captured here.
Oral histories & archival media
Archive plates
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FlyerPL.01
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PhotographPL.02
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DocumentPL.03
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Placeholder plates — cleared scans drop in here
Sonic profile
experimentaljazzmixed
Cultural role
experimental musicdowntown scene
Tags
#experimental#avant-garde#Williamsburg#downtownmusic