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Culture, tone and setting spew forth from New York; the hanging buildings lay shadows on the streets during the day and at night flashing lights zoom by while crowds chatter outside suave restaurants and roaring nightclubs. And here, here is where Bob Dylan mused over his greatest works, here is where the Ramones burst forth on to the scene, here is where Beatlemania began and it continues here.

On Jones Street, staring down at East Village , as the wind bustles past and the cold air bites, we are given the perfect setting for the recreation of Bob Dylans enigmatic cover to The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. In Dylans memoirs he recalls the moment the photo was snapped: The air was bitter cold, always below zero, but the fire in my mind was never out.

Dylan became known as The Original Vagabond during his stay in New York, traversing across East Village with guitar, and harmonica in toe. He also played all the cafes on 118th Street, his low graveling voice tearing through the basement joints. The Beatles also had a life-altering experience in New York; touching down in JFK Airport on the 7th February 1964. Staying in the Plaza Hotel, an icon on the New York landscape, before they played the Ed O Sullivan show that would make them the biggest band in the world. The short stay in New York had a lasting impression on John Lennon, where he settled down in East Village in 1971. Lennon, however, was murdered in New York, outside his apartments, The Dakota, on 72nd Street.

During this whole time the Punk Rock scene began to emerge to what a lot of people saw as the watering down on Blues Rock. Punk Rock sought to bring rock back to basics, and The Ramones, from Forest Hill, Queens. The Ramones emerged from the Wake of the proto-punk led by such acts Iggy Pop and the Stooges and The Velvet Underground. The raw and eclectic music movement took roots in the East village, with 115th Ninth Street being a mecca for punk rockers as the birth place of Joey Ramone.

The Chelsea Hotel in New York also stands as a bastion to the musical endeavors of the city, all but shut to New Residence, the hotel conjures up images of a hungover Leonard Cohen lamenting about another lost love. Or the thought of bohemian men and women gathering to greet the sunglass wearing, black suited Bob Dylan.

However by the 80s New York had become almost a dystopian city, giving itself into the crack epidemic. Amongst this dark days rose the Hip-Hop movement. With hundreds of Hip-Hop historical moments to rise from the cities ashes; none stands more importantly than 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, north Manhattan, the birthplace to Hip-Hop. This address is where DJ Kool Herc played his first hip-hop sets, with looped in drum beats over disco heavy bass, he began getting local people to put spoken words over the tracks, and he would have weekly discos on Sedgwick Avenue. Make the most of your stay in this musical mecca with quality hotels like Pod Hotel , Mandarin Oriental New York and Jumeirah Essex house .

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