He needed a guardian.

Gerde’s Folk City, one of the most famous of the Greenwich Village coffeehouses on whose rickety stage innumerable careers were honed, opened its doors on West 4th and Mercer on 26 January 1960. The ...

Iconic NYC venue Gerde’s Folk City, which closed in 1987, is being resurrected for a new venue/eatery inside Chelsea Market. DNA Info reports the new iteration of Folk City will open in the basement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty-five years ago today, a scrappy teenager from Minnesota walked into a Greenwich Village folk club and quietly set the course ...