Party / residency · cross-linked record

Jellybean Residency (April 1981 – June 1984)

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

Funhouse

1979–1985 · Chelsea, Manhattan

ClosedClub

The defining era of the Fun House; Jellybean Benitez held the residency for three-plus years, building the predominantly Puerto Rican and Italian American outer-borough crowd that became the nucleus of New York freestyle culture.