The dying days of CBGBs

A new photography exhibition documents the closure of punk's ground zero – and waves goodbye to a New York institutionA movement that proclaimed there was "no future", punk rock is supposed to kiss goodbye to the past without even shrugging its leather-clad shoulders. Not, though, when it comes to a certain address: 315 Bowery, in downtown Manhattan, is better known as the former site of CBGBs, aka The Birthplace of Punk – the famous dive bar that started a worldwide countercultural phenomen...

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