Party / residency · cross-linked record

Black Flag / Beastie Boys / Sonic Youth convergence (March 1981)

A recurring night threaded through the atlas. A party often outlives any single room, tracing it across addresses is one way the atlas connects eras.

Rooms it touched

1958–1965 (original); 1980–1985 (revival, two addresses) · Theater District / Flatiron, Manhattan

Black Flag's first East Coast show; Adam Yauch, Mike D, and Thurston Moore documented as attendees, an often-cited founding myth of NYC hardcore.