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Courtesy of the New York Public Library. It was a Rathskeller-like beer and wine cellar restaurant in the Coleman House Hotel, extending into the sidewalk vaults basement area below the sidewalkthat became a favorite haunt of the Bohemians of the s, including artists, writers, and actors. Walt Whitmana journalist for some 15 years in Brooklyn and Manhattan, was a central figure here from to Whitman had begun writing poetry, which he first collected into Leaves of Grass in Christopher D.

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