Jan 28, 2009
Pfaff’s, dubbed “Manhattan’s first hipster bar” by ephemeralnewyork, was a beer cellar that served as the center of lower Manhattan’s bohemian scene from 1859 to 1870. An article from the New York Times in 1933 notes that: Thackeray brought the word ‘Bohemianism’ into the English Language and then an organized group, with Walt Whitman as kind of an associate member, set up headquarters in Pfaff’s beer cellar. Pfaff’s was located at 653 Broadway, between Bleecker and Bond. The Vault at Pfaff’s has put together an impressive list of biographies of over 150 people comprising the bohemian literary scene of Pfaff’s.

Pfaff’s, dubbed “Manhattan’s first hipster bar” by ephemeralnewyork, was a beer cellar that served as the center of lower Manhattan’s bohemian scene from 1859 to 1870. An article from the New York Times in 1933 notes that:

Thackeray brought the word ‘Bohemianism’ into the English Language and then an organized group, with Walt Whitman as kind of an associate member, set up headquarters in Pfaff’s beer cellar.
Pfaff’s was located at 653 Broadway, between Bleecker and Bond.

The Vault at Pfaff’s has put together an impressive list of biographies of over 150 people comprising the bohemian literary scene of Pfaff’s.

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