The Beat scene relocated from San Francisco to lower Manhattan by 1960

Evidence

Ginsberg returned to New York in late 1958, taking an apartment at 170 East Second Street. Corso was back in the Village. Kerouac was living with his mother on Long Island. Soon after The Flower Thief was shown in North Beach, Bob Kaufman left San Francisco, with his wife Eileen and infant son Parker, for an apartment at 42 St. Mark’s Place shared with the jazz vibraphonist Dave Pike, a sometime sideman with Paul Bley. A few months later Kaufman moved into the same building as Ginsberg and, along with Ginsberg, Corso, and Kerouac, read at the Gaslight. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 162

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