57 Great Jones Street

When I started my current job, the office was in 57 Great Jones Street, a somewhat unassuming two-story building with a Japanese butcher in the storefront and the "secret" Japanese restaurant Bohemian housed in its rear. Since I work for a Japanese company and am not Japanese, and we were sharing space with a Japanese design firm, I was amazed by all of this Japanese-ness. But even more amazing was finding out that 57 Great Jones Street was once owned by Andy Warhol and was where the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died on August 12, 1988, on the second floor, where our office was. Wow! Even though I was only there a month before our office relocated, I like that I got to spend time in this historical building.