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                The
                Brooklyn Academy of Music
                 30 Lafayette Avenue  
                (between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street) 
                www.bam.org
                 
                The Brooklyn Academy of Music houses the BAM Opera House, BAM
                cafe and BAM Rose Cinemas. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), is
                America’s oldest operating performing arts center. Currently
                in its 139th year, BAM's first performance was in 1861 at the
                start of the American Civil War and in 1907 moved to its current
                location at 30 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene 
                 
                The BAM Harvey Theater is located a block and a half away at 651
                Fulton Street between Ashland Place and Rockwell Place. 
                From the West Side of Manhattan to the BAM Opera House: 
                Take the 2 or 3 train to Atlantic Avenue. BAM is located exactly
                one block from the train station (look for the clock tower and
                walk down Ashland Place to the far side of the same block. 
                BAM presents concerts, contemporary and
                classical dance, performance art, theater for young people,
                repertory and first run films, and reaches out to artists and
                audiences throughout the city as well as being home to both the
                Brooklyn Philharmonic (a first-rate orchestra with more
                adventurous programming than the NY Philharmonic) and the Next
                Wave Festival.
                 
                 
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