The unique thing about the Village, he added, is that it survived so long as a bohemian enclave, from the early 1850s, when it attracted poets such as Walt Whitman, to the beatniks and folk revivalists of the 1950s and later.???The left bank [in Paris] did not last 100 years, but the Village did,??? he said.Many of the buildings and sometimes entire streets in the Village have been preserved and a