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100 New Yorkers: A Guide To Illustrious Lives & Locations Julia Holmes New York Review of Books, Oct 1, 2002

[James] Baldwin beganspending time in the Village around 1940, when he met…. Baldwin later socialized with ohte r BEats in Greenwich Vilalge, frequently the now shuttered legends….. He drank often at Minetta Tavern and White Horse Tavern, sometimes with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. (p 11) ….. Once a speakeasy called The Black Rabbit, Minetta Tavern was a favorite gathering for the literati, including Cumings, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Photographs and cricatures of legendary regulars crowd the walls. (p 60)

….. in novels:

The Vampire of New York By Lee Hunt

Found in the Street By Patricia Highsmith

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Literary New York A Historyand Guide  1976/91  Susan Edminston and Linda D Cirino  Peregrine Smith Books

(p97) Late '40s literaryactivity "The San REmo reigneda steh social center of the Village, its overflow pouring into Minetta's up the street, until about 1950, when it was the subject of what Village Voice publisher Ed Fancher called "an incredible social phenomenon."

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inside Greenwich Village A new York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918 Gerald W. WcFarland University of Mass Press, Amherst  2001

1898 black Villagers african/west indian (9) 1910 brothels and pimps (162) STephen crane (p 12) focusing on the depravity of the area Little Africa, Black-and-Tan saloon" mix race poor wites black tans (mulattoes) murders knfings muggings and othe rviolen acts were commonplace occurrences in teh minettas until the mid- 1890s ...... http://www.nysonglines.com/minettaln.htm Until 1929 it was The Black Rabbit, a speakeasy run by Eve Adams before Eve's Hangout; Eugene O'Neill and Max Bodenheim were customers then. Reader's Digest was founded in the basement in 1923

movies:

jimmy blue eyes sleepers 1996 shaft - Several sources ::http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2008/12/minetta-tavern-and-readers-digest.html It was also a favorite of Joe Gould—whose life was chronicled by the New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell—who claimed to be working on his Oral History of Our Time at the bar.

Also, when the Minetta Tavern was still a speakeasy (called the Black Rabbit), it rented out its basement to Dewitt and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace who published the first issues of the Reader’s Digest there. The magazine’s entrance was rumored to be through a trapdoor in the tavern. Does that mean they shared space with the Black Rabbit’s illicit booze supply? .......

literary folks - seamus heaney (source) photo: http://art-nerd.com/newyork/minetta-tavern/

..... Bohemia REmembered by Martin P. Kearns village voice nov 20 1957

The retaurants werethe landmarks of th e arts, and here inthe old black Rabbit in the eeing we could meet such as Donald Corley, Dos Passos, and, on rare occassions, Theodore Dreiser and Sherwood Anderson. (PUnchino drink)

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BEATS: Kerouac's Blues James Campbell The Antioch Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, Jazz (Summer, 1999), pp. 363-370 Published by: Antioch Review, Inc. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4613885

As "cool" was transformed into a tourist attraction, as Hollywood actors were heard to say "You dig?" on screen....hip stepped back, obscured itself in teh undergoround shaows, before turnign up selsewhere, amond a different crowd, in different bars -- the latest residences being the Minetta Tavern, in tiny Mineta Land and the nearby Fugazzi's Bar and Grill on Sixth Avenue. The inhabitants - STanley Gould, Anton Rosenberg, Alene Lee, and others -- nuanced their diction and their (p 366) dressat the sharp edge, listend to the harder jazz, were familiar with teh harder drugs, knew which books were in and why,and why and when the last in things went out. Kerouack called this crowd the subterraneans." (etc)