Johnsatyricon

"The vault at Pfaffs where the drinkers and laughers meet to eat and drink and carouse." --Walt Whitman--

Charles Pfaff's beer cellar in lower Manhattan was a magnet for some of the most unconventional and creative individuals of nineteenth-century New York City, including Walt Whitman, poet and actress Adah Isaacs Menken, journalist and social critic Henry Clapp, playwright John Brougham, and artist Elihu Vedder.