🧭 The Crawl

1️⃣ 🍻 12pm, Oscar Wilde @ 45 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001

Pay homage to—you guessed it—the Irish writer and playwright, Oscar Wilde. It also houses New York City’s longest bar at 118.5 feet.

2️⃣ 📚 1pm, Rizzoli Bookstore @ 1133 Broadway, New York, NY 10010

3️⃣ 🍻 2pm, Pete’s Tavern @ 129 E 18th St, New York, NY 10003

Amongst the must-visit literary bars in NYC, Pete's Tavern has been serving its customers ever since 1864. As a result, it is one of the oldest bars in New York. Many creatives have thrown back a drink or three here and is an important stopover in any NYC pub crawl for its association with O. Henry. The famed author frequented the bar between 1903 and 1907, and it was at Pete's Tavern that he wrote his famous short story The Gift of the Magi. Three decades later, Pete's Tavern was once again a site for literary greatness as Ludwig Bemelmans came up with the character of Madeline while sitting here.

4️⃣ 📚 3:00PM, Strand Book Store @ 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003

5️⃣ 🍻 4:00PM, Minetta Tavern @ 113 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012

Perhaps the most vibrant literary street in New York right now is MacDougal, south of Washington Square. Recent upgrades make the thriving New York University-populated street worth a visit. In the 1930s and 1940s, Minetta Tavern attracted everyone from authors (Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Mitchell) to bohemians, such as the eccentric Joe Gould, who claimed to be writing a comprehensive history of the modern world.

6️⃣ 📚 5:00PM Three Lives & Company @ 238 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

7️⃣ 🍻 6:00PM White House Tavern @ 567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014

Opened in 1880 but began attracting the Beat poets and the early folk music scene in the 1950s and 1960s. Here the likes of James Baldwin, Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson all spent time. But the most well-known tale is that of poet Dylan Thomas, who did not go gentle into that good night. Thomas famously went on a massive bender, followed by a couple of beers at the White Horse in November 1953, returned to the Chelsea Hotel, where he was staying, and died a few days later." Jack Kerouac was famously chucked out of the bar on several occasions, and wrote that he spotted ‘Go home Jack’ written all over the urinals. Kerouac was, of course, the creator of the Beatnik movement and to find out more about them, the Bohemians and the folk scene which were all happening down in the Village, it’s worth checking out our Greenwich Village Tour.