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Beat Street Records

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Downtown Brooklyn record store at 494 Fulton Street, across from Albee Square Mall, that from the 1980s into 2006 was one of New York's great vinyl meccas for hip-hop and reggae heads — a gathering place for DJs, selectors and collectors that fell to the digital-download era.

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Celebrating Beat Street Records, a Hip-Hop Mecca in Brooklyn

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