A Croatian immigrant by the name of Mario Skaric has announced he will reopen the Figaro Café, once the beating heart of the beatnik movement at the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets, Forbes reports.

Walking through Greenwich Village nowadays can sometimes feel like a movie set portraying the old neighborhood. Like many of the 1960s-era landmarks, the original Figaro closed in 2008, and the neighborhood has gentrified in the years since. Washington Square Park, at the heart of the Village, has undergone a facelift since the 1970s and 80s; it is now a safe, comfortable environment for families with small children or for teenagers to get together on a warm summer’s evening.

Of course, some of the neighborhood’s historic landmarks like The Strand and Three Lives & Co. bookstores remain from the heyday of the Village. But they are outliers: Apart from those examples there is precious little remaining from the days when Allan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac wrote poems in local coffee shops and recited them on the spur of the moment. Gone are the days when Lou Reed just might turn up for an open-mic night, or Sam Shepard would read a script for whoever was in the bar that night, just to gauge the audience’s reaction.

While it may be true that Greenwich Village circa 2021 is a far cry from the vintage model, the neighborhood’s historic vibe has not been forgotten: Skaric expects to open the new venue by June or July.