This week marks the 33rd anniversary of the launch of boutique bowl, the 1989 Beastie Boys album whose cover popularized a street corner on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. But the anniversary doesn’t come alone because after a nearly decade-long campaign, the dot will earn the name of the New York group.
It was in 2014 when a New York community board rejected a proposal to rename the intersection between Ludlow and Rivington Streets, but this time the city council approved the new request. The resolution just lacked the signature of Mayor Eric Adams.
“As many of us know, once the Beastie Boys hit the scene, they change the game in hip-hop,” counselor Chris Marty told a local newspaper. Pix 11. “I consider it a celebration of the Lower East Side, of hip-hop music and especially of our community that has long organized to make it happen.”
The initiative was promoted by LeRoy McCarthy, a citizen who has also promoted street naming campaigns in honor of The Notorious BIG and the Wu-Tang Clan. In 2014, he managed to create a memorial mural for boutique bowl In the same place where the cover photo was taken.
“It’s been a long way to get the Beastie Boys’ corner, but I’m happy to see the New York government officially recognize hip-hop arts and culture,” McCarthy told Reuters. New York Post. “The signs are very fitting because hip-hop belongs on the streets of New York City.”
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