Question: What was the name of the punk house which served as the home base for Lou Reed's band?
Context: The Essential Lou Reed is a compilation album by Lou Reed released in 2011 by RCA Records.  The album features classic Lou Reed solo work and songs from his band the Velvet Underground. Live In Italy is an album by Lou Reed recorded live over two nights in September 1983 (on the 7th in Verona and on the 10th, at the ruins of Circus Maximus, in Rome) using the Rolling Stones Mobile Unit.  It was issued on vinyl only in Germany, UK and Japan.  At the time, Reed and his band were on a world tour to promote the album "Legendary Hearts".  A live video, "A Night with Lou Reed", filmed at a New York concert, was also released to coincide with the album.  The video omitted the songs "Betrayed", "Sally Can't Dance", "Average Guy" and "Some Kinda Love"/"Sister Ray", while adding "Don't Talk to Me About Work", "Women", "Turn Out the Light" and "New Age". Sally Can't Dance is the fourth solo album by Lou Reed.  It remains Reed's highest-charting album, having peaked at #10 during a fourteen-week stay on the "Billboard" album chart in October 1974.  It is also the first solo Lou Reed album not to feature any songs originally recorded by Reed's earlier band, the Velvet Underground, as well as the first of Reed's solo studio albums to be recorded in the United States (Reed's previous three albums were all recorded in the United Kingdom). Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed is the first greatest hits compilation by Lou Reed, formerly of The Velvet Underground.  It was issued by RCA Records after Reed's first contract with them ended in 1976.  Issued on compact disc on October 25, 1990. A punk house is a dwelling occupied by members of the punk subculture.  Punk houses are similar to the hippie crash pads of the 1960s and the slan shacks of science fiction fandom.  The Factory, an alternative living space founded by Andy Warhol as the home base of The Velvet Underground, is directly linked to the formation of punk rock in New York City.  In the early 1980s, a few punk gangs developed around allegiance to certain punk houses. Lou Reed is the debut solo album by musician Lou Reed, released in 1972 by RCA Records two years after he left The Velvet Underground.  The album comprises eight new recordings of then-unreleased Velvet Underground songs, plus two new songs, "Going Down" and "Berlin" (the latter was re-recorded by Reed as the title track for his 1973 album "Berlin").  Reed was backed by London session musicians, two of whom, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe, were from the progressive rock band Yes.  Wakeman recalled that during the session at Morgan Studios, "the lights had to be out so nobody could see." The Creation of the Universe is an album by Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio.  The trio was formed in 2008 with Ulrich Krieger and Sarth Calhoun to play music inspired by Reed's 1975 album "Metal Machine Music".  The first concerts of the group were on October 2 and 3, 2008, at REDCAT in Los Angeles.  The group was named Metal Machine Trio only after these concerts.  The concert itself was announced as Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger: Unclassified.  The CD is the unedited live recording of both nights.  It is available in a variety of formats from Lou Reed's website including, MP3, FLAC, 2 Disk CD and Deluxe CD.  Cover and inlay photos are by Lou Reed. The Velvet Underground was a rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).  The group's integration of rock and the avant-garde achieved little commercial success during their existence, but they are now recognized as one of the most influential bands in rock, underground, experimental, and alternative music.  The provocative subject matter, musical experimentation, and often nihilistic attitudes explored in the band's work would prove influential in the development of punk rock and new wave music. American Poet is an album of an early solo concert by Lou Reed, recorded live at the Hempstead Theatre, New York, on Boxing Day 1972 during the "Transformer" tour.  The backing band are the Tots.  It features material from that album, the Velvet Underground, and his 1972 solo debut "Lou Reed".  The version of "Berlin" is from that debut album.  "American Poet" was released in 2001.  It had previously been released as a bootleg recording. Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves (or how I slugged it out with Lou Reed and stayed awake) is an infamous interview with Lou Reed conducted by Lester Bangs and published in "Creem" magazine in 1975.  It is now regarded as a classic document of music journalism.  The title is a play on "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," the book by James Agee.  The full interview was reprinted in the New Musical Express in November 2013, as a tribute to Lou Reed, who died the previous month.
Answer: The Factory