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31 Cornelia Street. In 1958,
Joe Cino
opened a coffeehouse that became a hangout for people involved in art,
photography, poetry, and theater, including many lesbians and gay men.
It soon became an experimental performance space, now considered the
first Off-Off-Broadway theater, as well as New York's first gay
theater. Caffe Cino helped to launch the careers of playwrights
Tom Eyen,
William Hoffman,
Robert Patrick,
Doric Wilson, and
Lanford Wilson, among others. It closed in 1968, the year after Cino's suicide.