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The Beastie Boys Are Getting Their Own Square in New York, and the Location Couldn’t Be More Perfect · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The cover of the
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  Speaker 1: Beastie Boys second album, The groundbreaking legendary Paul's Boutique, features
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  Speaker 1: a photograph the southwest corner of a busy intersection in
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  Speaker 1: New York Ludlow and Rivington on Manhattan's Lower East Side,
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  Speaker 1: and now, nearly thirty three years after the album's released,
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  Speaker 1: the corner is set for a new name, Beastie Boys Square.
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  Speaker 1: The New York City Council voter to officially dub the
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  Speaker 1: iconic corner after the influential hip hop trio and AC
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  Speaker 1: councilman tells the c W picks eleven why, saying, as
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  Speaker 1: many of us not wants the beast the Boys hit
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  Speaker 1: the scene, it really changed the hip hop game. I
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  Speaker 1: see it as a celebration, a celebration of the Lower
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  Speaker 1: East Side, of celebration for hip hop, and especially a
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  Speaker 1: celebration for our community who organized for a long time
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  Speaker 1: to make this happen. New York Mayor Eric Adams is
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  Speaker 1: expected to sign the bill soon and a ceremony will
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  Speaker 1: be scheduled in the near future. That's direct from Hollywood.