This socially-progressive urban setting, with its coffee clubs and open air performances, was the perfect incubator for the folk revival of the ‘50s and ‘60s and the counter-culture that it thrived in:

With its coffee shops and open-air events, this socially progressive metropolitan location was the ideal environment for the folklore revival of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the counter-culture that flourished in New York's Greenwich Village.

Throughout the 19th century, it was renowned as the Bohemian Town, where individuals experimented with unorthodox lifestyles.

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