San Remo Cafe Explained

The San Remo Cafe was a bar at 93 MacDougal Street at the corner of Bleecker Street in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village. It was a hangout for Bohemians and writers such as James Agee, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Miles Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Billy Name, Frank O'Hara, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, William Styron, Dylan Thomas, Gore Vidal, Judith Malina, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and many others.^{[1] [2] [3]} It opened in 1925^[4] and closed in 1967.^[5]

Jack Kerouac described the bar's crowd in his novel The Subterraneans:

On July 29, 2013, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation unveiled a plaque at 93 MacDougal Street to commemorate the cafe's rich 42-year lifespan. Musician David Amram, who used to hang out at the San Remo, spoke at the event.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The San Remo Cafe . Art Nerd New York . February 5, 2014.
2. Web site: When everyone hung out at the San Remo . Ephemeral New York . February 5, 2014.
3. Web site: The Two Greenwich Village Bars That Mattered . PBS . February 7, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20020411030732/https://www.pbs.org/hollywoodpresents/collectedstories/writing/write_greenwich_1.html . April 11, 2002 . dead.
4. Web site: Gore Vidal (1925–2012) and Greenwich Village . August 3, 2012 . Off the Grid . February 6, 2014.
5. Web site: Historic Village Bohemian Haunt Favored by Kerouac to Get Memorial Plaque . DNAInfo New York . February 5, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140225194011/http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130726/greenwich-village/historic-village-bohemian-haunt-favored-by-kerouac-get-memorial-plaque . February 25, 2014.
6. Web site: San Remo Plaque Unveiling . July 29, 2013 . Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation . September 19, 2014.