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At this site Mickey Ruskin opened his famous restaurant, bar, music venue, and hangout, which Andy Warhol described as “the coming together of Pop Art and Pop Life somewhere between a Viennese coffee house, and artist’s salon and an American Bohemia.” A natural intersection of art and music, it drew regulars such as Robert Rauschenberg, hosted the Velvet Underground, and saw punk emerge from performances by the New York Dolls and The Ramones.
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