These photos were taken over Thanksgiving weekend 2007. Click each thumbnail for a larger image. Many images are accompanied by informative captions. This is a work in progress, and all will have captions soon.
Bob Dylan played at Cafe Wah? on his first night in New York City in 1961. Jimi Hendrix's played his first gig as a band leader in Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in 1966. Chas Chandler, the former bassist in The Animals, discovered Hendrix at Cafe Wah? and formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience with Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding. Other notable performers who have graced the stage include Bruce Springsteen, Peter, Paul & Mary, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby.
Le Figaro Cafe is located on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets in Greenwich Village, just up the street from Cafe Wah?
In the movie Factory Girl about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol, a character makes reference to having met Warhol in The Figaro Cafe.
Broadway is the oldest north-south street in New York, dating back to the first Dutch settlement on Manhattan island, New Amsterdam, in the 17th century.
They are everywhere. While in New York, I read a student story that reported the number of Starbucks at 13,000-plus. They do allow public access to their rest rooms.