The poet and musician Jim Carroll died Friday of a heart attack. He was 60.

A New York Times obituary charts his formative years across the city: Catholic school on the Lower East Side, a basketball scholarship to Trinity, poetry in the East Village, hustling in Times Square. He left in 1973 “to escape drugs” but returned intermittently, and remained a quintessential New York denizen: hobnobbing with Beat poets, hanging…

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