110 MacDougal Street
Greenwich Village | built 1900
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1957
Izzy Young opens the Folklore Center in a raised tenement storefront
Izzy Young started the Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street in early 1957, selling records, books and sheet music from a raised storefront marked by a square hanging sign. Dave Van Ronk recalled it as the place everyone went, so much like a club that people joked Young never sold anything. Young may have picked MacDougal Street for its closeness to the Sunday folk-singing in Washington Square.
“In early 1957, Izzy Young opened the Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street…”
- 1961
Bob Dylan, who spent time in the back room, gets his first concert from Izzy Young
Bob Dylan spent time in the back room of the Folklore Center, where Young let him listen to records and read books, and he met Dave Van Ronk in the store. Young staged Dylan's first concert, at Carnegie Chapter Hall, on November 4, 1961. Dylan later wrote a song about the shop and its owner, 'Talking Folklore Center'.
“Young produced Dylan's first concert at Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City on Saturday, November 4, 1961.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1961
Folklore Center owner Izzy Young leads 500 folk singers in an unpermitted Washington Square sing-in
After Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris refused the folk singers a permit in spring 1961, Izzy Young, owner of the Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, and about 500 supporters sang in Washington Square Park on April 9 and then processed through the arch to Judson Memorial Church. Police charged in with batons and arrested ten people. A newspaper first called it a beatnik riot, then retracted the headline.
“Izzy Young, owner of the Folklore Center—who had been trying to get permits for the folksingers—and about 500 musicians and supporters gathered in the park…”
Source: Wikipedia
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