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Brill Building. Coordinates: 40°45′40″N 73°59′04″W. For the related genre, see Brill Building (genre). The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and further uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood.
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- 175,000 sq ft (16,300 m²)
Located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, the Brill Building was the hub of professionally written rock and roll. As the 1960s equivalent of Tin Pan Alley, it reemphasized a specialized division of labour in which professional songwriters worked closely with producers and artists-and-repertoire.
- Reebee Garofalo
Located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, the Brill Building was a hub of songwriters, record labels, and recording studios, all under one roof. It built on the tradition of the “Tin Pan Alley” district before it — a concentration of music publishers and studios in a strip of Manhattan that dominated the music industry in the big-band era.
The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway in the heart of New York's music district, is a name synonymous with an approach to songwriting that changed the course of music. The Brill Building sound came out from the stretch along Broadway between 49th and 53rd streets.
Oct 23, 2023 · Along with its less-glamorous neighbor at 1650 Broadway, this 11-story office block was the New York home of the music business – you could find a songwriter, a publisher, record a demo, and...
Aug 4, 2023 · Thanks to a loose collective of composers, lyricists, music publishers, and bands, the Brill Building at 1619 Broadway in New York City - as well as nearby 1650 Broadway - gave rise to a sound that would shape popular music of the late 1950s and early to mid-1960s. Comprised of 165 music businesses in its heydey, the Brill Building and its ...
The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and further uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood.
