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located at 168 Marcy Avenue in

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, New York City. Duff's initially opened as "Bellevue Bar" in the

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in 1999, before moving to

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in 2004 with a name change to Duff's Brooklyn.The original Brooklyn location was at 28 North 3rd Street, where the bar resided from December 2004 to December 2008. Due to the rapid

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of area, the bar was forced relocate in December 2008. The bar reopened in December 2008 on Williamsburg's South Side (168 Marcy Avenue), in a space four times larger than the original bar. Duff's is frequented by Tri-state metalheads and rock n' rollers, and is a stop off for many heavy metal bands passing through New York City on tours. Some visitors of note have been

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, Exodus,

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, Machine Head,

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, Watain, 1349 and many others. The bar has also hosted many official CD and DVD release parties for local and global acts such as Black Label Society, Lamb of God, Mudvayne, Pantera, Queensryche, Slayer, Suffocation, and Type O Negative. The bar's unique decor has also attracted many photo shoots and has made it a desirable spot to film in for independent filmmakers, as well as the better known

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(including The Headbanger's Ball 20th Anniversary show), VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show",

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, and

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