TheSan Remo Cafe was a bar at 93MacDougal Street at the corner ofBleecker Street in theNew York City neighborhood ofGreenwich Village. It was a hangout forBohemians and writers such asJames 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 novelThe Subterraneans:[3]
Hip without being slick, intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual as hell and know all aboutPound without being pretentious or saying too much about it. They are very quiet, they are very Christlike.
On July 29, 2013, theGreenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation unveiled a plaque at 93 MacDougal Street to commemorate the cafe's rich 42-year lifespan. MusicianDavid Amram, who used to hang out at the San Remo, spoke at the event.[6]
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