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Greenwich Village looks a lot like Italy, with a motorbike dashing by and signs advertising pizza, ravioli and Cafe Borgia. In the 1960s, "the Village" was an incubator for music, arts, politics, literature and ideas, where you could bump into Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg or Andy Warhol.

This photo was taken at the corner of Macdougal and Bleecker streets, March 24, 1964, and captures Cafe Borgia, a legendary coffeehouse where people would talk and recite poetry.

"In the 1960's and 1970's, Cafe Borgia was a bohemian's dream," wrote The Times. "Styled like an Old World cafe with medieval decor, it drew Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Edward Albee and Andy Warhol also spent hours there, as did Joan Baez, Joe Gould and James Dean."

But as Bob Dylan would tell you, the times they are a-changin'. Cafe Borgia, which opened in 1959 and was the Village's oldest coffeehouse, lost its lease and closed in 2001 after 42 years.