Pfaff's beer cellar
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- '"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, and George Arnold.

