Yesterday, we posted a video of our visit to the John Derian Company on East 2nd Street in the East Village and the gorgeous but pricey Christmas 🎄 ornaments and handmade decoupage they sell, but did not focus on the history of the building where this shop is located, which definitely deserves a separate post. 6 East 2nd Street just off the Bowery, which just recently sold for 5.8 million dollars on 1/6/22 is a massive 6,420 square-foot four-level loft space steeped in music history. It is where the Ramones played one of their earliest shows in 1975 and where Arturo Vega, the punk band’s creative director lived from the 1970s until his death in 2013. Joey and Dee Dee Ramone often used the loft as their crash pad and the band even signed their first contract on Vega’s coffee table. Arturo Vega also created the Ramones’ iconic eagle logo (swipe left for 2nd photo) and attended all but two of their 2,263 shows between 1974 and 1996. Another interesting fact is that the nearby intersection of Bowery and East 2nd Street was renamed Joey Ramone’s Place and is the most stolen street sign in New York City.
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