6 Historic Poet Haunts To Visit On World Poetry Day In NYC

Different name, same underground address. The chic Sweetwater Social at 643 Broadway was once the site of Pfaff's Beer Cellar, a bohemian haunt where Walt Whitman could be found from the mid-1850s. In an unfinished poem about the bar, Whitman wrote "The vault at Pfaffs where the drinkers and laughers meet to eat and drink and carouse / While on the walk immediately overhead pass the myriad feet of Broadway..."

Sweetwater Social, 643 Broadway

[Photo via Facebook]