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Besides some minor touches to the outside of the house, the neighborhood seems to be left exactly how it was originally. The neighborhood is a quiet nightmare for him, as he wants no part of the almost suburban lifestyle his sister has accepted. Llewyn sometimes relies on his sister for money and hospitality as well. Llewyn’s sister Joy lives in a house in Woodside, Queens. Caffe Reggio-which claims to be the cafe that introduced the cappuccino to America-is featured in both our Top 10 Coffee Shops for Design Buffs and 15 Vintage Restaurants, Bars and Cafes. Hopefully they had espressos made by the impressive machine from 1902. Llewyn meets Jean here over a cup of coffee and she tells him he’s an asshole: “No, you don’t want to go anywhere and that’s why all the same shit is going to keep happening to you because you want it to you… and also because you’re an asshole!” We’re not surprised to see that Inside Llewyn Davis was filmed inside this classic old world coffee shop. The exterior of the building in where he stashes the cat he reluctantly becomes responsible for is located on 77nd East Second Street. A usual place he visits and hopes for a night’s rest is the apartment of Jim (Justin Timberlake) and Jean (Carey Mulligan), a couple who (like Llewyn) perform folk music. Llewyn is a drifter, never too sure of whose couch he is going to sleep on from one night to the next. In front of Village Cigars is Hess Triangle, memorialized as the smallest plot of land in NYC at 500 square inches. What helps this place stand out, besides its history, are the displays of their own brand of cigarettes, as well as cigarettes from around the world. South at Christopher Street since the early 20th century, the tobacco shop sells everything from hookahs to lottery tickets. A corner shop staple that has been at 110 Seventh Ave. The iconic West Village tobacco shop can be seen as Llewyn Davis steps out of the Christopher Street train station. The train service for New York at the time was still run by the original subway company, the IRT (Inter-borough Rapid Transit Company) the MTA would not be founded until 1965, four years after the events of the film.

In 1961, those line numbers did not exist, and neither did the MTA. The 96th Street station on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where Llewyn Davis gets on to head down to Greenwich Village opened in 1904, and is now where passengers take the 1,2, and 3 line.

However, before its closure in 1971, the Café hosted performers like Dave Van Ronk, Bill Cosby, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and many others, when they were starting out and looking for a place to play. The interiors were filmed in a warehouse in Crown Heights, but the exteriors were shot on East 9th Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A. The real-life location for most of the film’s musical performances is now a Tattoo shop. They serve 'perfectly sized, housemade burgers-not too big but not too small-which are also some of the city’s tastiest,' according to New York Magazine.The Gaslight Café did, in fact, exist in the West Village at 116 Macdougal Street.

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Located at 45 E 18th Street, the tavern is full of old New York charm with a marble and mahogany bar, tin ceiling, and even a dumbwaiter for transporting food from the upstairs kitchen. Joel's favorite bar-where his close friends know they can call and likely find him-is portrayed by Old Town Bar & Restaurant in New York City. Mark’s Place in the East Village, according to Lonely Planet. Since it closed its doors in 1971, the exterior of the cafe and the street it's on are portrayed by St.

Opened in the late 1950s, it started as a poetry hotspot and later became a music scene hub-with frequenters including Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. The Gaslight Cafe was a real coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan.

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New York Daily News Archive // Getty Images The Gaslight Cafe in the show is based on a former café of the same name, seen here circa 1961.