Rough Customer, one of the recording studios credited on Taylor Swift’s “august,” was located in Brooklyn.
The song’s credits identify two primary recording studios: Kitty Committee in Los Angeles and Rough Customer in Brooklyn. This reflects the distributed production process used for Folklore, in which musical parts could be recorded in different places and combined later.
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, so “New York City” may sound plausible but is less specific than the credited location. The track was later mixed at Long Pond Studio in New York’s Hudson Valley, creating another nearby but distinct location in its production history.