David Mancuso meets with the SoHo Artists' Association in New York on October 14, 1974. Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images David Mancuso, DJ and founder of New York City’s legendary invite-only parties, later known as The Loft, has died. He was 72. Mancuso pioneered the idea of underground private parties in New York in the early 1970s as an alternative the the city’s commercial nightclub scene. After