A trip to New York's Greenwich Village

During weekends, rap and jazz musicians plays for tourists under Washington Square's stone arch. - Photo from Wikimedia Commons

A new Coen brothers film celebrates Greenwich Village in its 60s heyday, but what’s left of Dylan and Kerouac’s New York?

FIVE decades have passed since America’s troubadours and beat poets flocked to Greenwich Village, filling its smoky late-night basement bars and coffee houses with folk songs and influencing some of the most recognisable musicians of the era.