The story
From roller disco palace to hip hop mecca, The Roxy's 'Wheels of Steel' nights brought breakdancing and graffiti culture downtown.
Everything that was here
- 1978–2007
The RoxyNightclub
From roller disco palace to hip hop mecca, The Roxy's 'Wheels of Steel' nights brought breakdancing and graffiti culture downtown.
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Nearby history
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Sea Colony
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The Tunnel
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Bayard Rustin Residence
340 West 28th Street · 896 m away
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Avenue South · 1.1 km away
Max Gordon opened the Vanguard in 1935, and it settled into a triangle-shaped basement that had been a speakeasy called
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