The Factory was the name of
Andy Warhol's
New York City studio, which had three different locations between 1962 and 1984. The original Factory was on the fifth floor at 231
East 47th Street, in
Midtown Manhattan. The rent was one hundred dollars per year. Warhol left in 1968 when the building was scheduled to be torn down to make way for an apartment building. He then relocated his studio to the sixth floor of the
Decker Building at 33
Union Square West near the corner of
East 16th Street, where it remained until 1973. It moved to 860
Broadway at the north end of Union Square. Although this space was much larger, not much filmmaking took place there. In 1984 Warhol moved his remaining ventures, no longer including filming, to 22
East 33rd Street, a conventional office building.