 They operated it as a cooperative for a few more years.David Crespy wrote, "The [East] Village was morphing around them as well... Jazz was being replaced by psychedelic rock, and the long-haired counterculture of 1969 was bringing a less angst-driven energy".Downtown activism was still prevalent, but Joe Cino's death on April 2, 1967 marked a departure from the origins of off-off-Broadway.