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Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a New York City performance venue, best known for slam poetry, but also presenting theater, stand-up comedy, Latin jazz, hip-hop performance, and screenplay readings. The café is a non-profit organization.
Located in eastern part of Manhattan's East Village, an area variously known Alphabet City or Loisaida (a Hispanicization of "Lower East Side"), the café began around 1973 as a living room salon in the apartment of writer, poet, and Rutgers University professor Miguel Algarin, who still as of 2004 serves as a board member. By 1975 they began renting an Irish bar, the Sunshine Cafe on East 6th Street, and adopted the name Nuyorican Poets Cafe. In 1980 they purchased their current building at 236 East 3rd Street.
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