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Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond were both on hand Saturday as the corner of Ludlow and Rivington in New York City’s Lower East Side was officially renamed Beastie Boys Square. “This is fucking weird,” Horovitz said immediately after taking the mic; he would later amend that to …

The New York City Council have finally approved a measure to name a Lower East Side Manhattan intersection “Beastie Boys Square,” a corner popularized by the trio’s Paul’s Boutique. The vote Thursday marked a happy end to a nearly decade-long grassroots campaign by Beasties fans to anoint the corner of …