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Residents fight to save hip-hop birthplace

A new beat may be coming to the Bronx building where hip-hop was born.

Residents of 1520 Sedgwick Ave., the place where in the mid-1970s a young D.J. later known as Kool Herc started spinning records at parties in the basement recreation room, are announcing today their plan to buy the building -- for only a few thousands dollars per apartment -- from private interests, and keep it affordable....

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