Cheap storefronts on the far side of Second Avenue hosted the new poetry scene

Evidence

The readings outgrew the Tenth Street’s capacity. In June 1961, Ruskin and Bill Mackey opened Les Deux Mégots (meaning “the two butts,” as in cigarette butts, a riff on the legendary French café Les Deux Magots) at 64 East Seventh Street, a larger storefront tucked amid the tenements on the far side of Second Avenue. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 270

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘tucked amid the tenements’ geography is exactly the cheap-rent condition the reader wants to map; connects to Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living (artist-pioneer settlement thesis).