- Pfaff's beer cellar
:'"The Vault at Pfaff's where the drinkers and laughers meet to eat and drink and carouse / While on the walk immediately overhead pass the myriad feet of Broadway" - Walt Whitman
Charles Pfaff's beer cellar, located at 653 Broadway in
New York City , is best known for being the watering-hole of choice for a group of bohemian writers and artists from 1859-1870. Writers for "Vanity Fair " and the "Saturday Press " met there.Habitués included
Henry Clapp ,Walt Whitman ,Fitz Hugh Ludlow , andGeorge Arnold .
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