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Loft at 647 Broadway It all began in a dark and unassuming old loft building on the west side of Broadway, just a few doors north of Bleecker Street. Up one long flight of stairs, tilting a bit, no doubt from the building settling over decades of rumbling subways, buses and trucks.

The Loft story began about Valentine’s Day, 1970, at David Mancuso’s downtown Manhattan loft on the second floor 647 Broadway in New York. It was in a neighborhood of 19th century buildings, vacant on the weekends and nights because just …