There's a song by Roch Voisine called "St. Annie of the Wild Blue Eyes." From the lyrics, "at Bleecker and MacDougal where Kerouac stood" and "on those rain-soaked streets where Ginsberg wrote," which city is the singer referring to?

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The Greenwich Village folk scene was about the hippest place on the planet in the early 1960s, when legions of earnest sandal wearers descended on Bleecker and MacDougal toting acoustic guitars and hopes of Guthriedom. http://www.citypages.com/databank/21/1008/article8556.asp Head to the Italian-fashioned Café Dante to grab a quick breakfast of espresso and pastries before a day of shopping and sightseeing. The eatery, located at 79 MacDougal St., is cited as an inspiration to beat-writer Jack Kerouac. Here is a "map" containing Bleecker and MacDougal in New York. 189: Carpo's Cafe was the San Remo, hangout of Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso, Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin, William Styron, James Agee, Frank O'Hara. Setting of beat novel Go. http://home.nyc.rr.com/jkn/nysonglines/bleecker.htm">http://home.nyc.rr.com/jkn/nysonglines/bleecker.htm Jan 03 04, 7:03 PM