The story
The speakeasy-turned-tavern where William Burroughs bought dinner for the Beats and Ginsberg wrote graffiti on the bathroom walls.
Everything that was here
- 1937–present · still open
Minetta TavernRestaurant
The speakeasy-turned-tavern where William Burroughs bought dinner for the Beats and Ginsberg wrote graffiti on the bathroom walls.
See the map in 1938 → - 1927–present · still open
Caffe ReggioCoffeehouse
The cafe that introduced cappuccino to America and still serves coffee beneath a 16th-century painting from the Caravaggio school.
See the map in 1928 → - 1950–1986
Kettle of FishBar
The bar next door to the Gaslight Cafe where Kerouac posed for his iconic photograph and Bob Dylan exchanged folk songs between sets.
See the map in 1951 → - 1925–1967
San Remo CafeBar
The bohemian bar immortalized in Kerouac's 'The Subterraneans' where every literary genius of postwar America drank together.
See the map in 1926 →
Nearby history
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Stonewall Inn
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