Pub Crawls
BAR HOP THROUGH LITERARY HISTORY
Learn more about our weekly pub crawls, honoring momentous literary moments, and explore the city through the eyes of influential authors who lived in NYC, led by passionate literary and history buffs (with a taste for quality beer and spirits)! Visit the bars that inspired generations of writers and artists, and still do to this day.
All Pub Crawls are three hours long, give or take.
Attendees must be 21+ in order to enter bars.
Check out our Walking Tours for all ages.
Tickets exclude drinks. Bring cash (and please tip your bartender!).
Have more questions? Check out our FAQs.
Our Brooklyn Heights Pub Crawl is currently off-sale for general tours,
but you can request it via Private & Group Tours.
Greenwich VilLAge
Literary Pub Crawl
Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl is one of the longest running tours in the Village. Join us for a three hour walking tour with stops at three historic bars. Hear the stories, poems, and prose that makes New York City the epicenter of American Literature. If you like history, literature, drinking, humor, and good fun, you’ll love us!
Forget everything you think you know about the Village! Celebrate the lore and legends, as we travel through the streets, and hear the writers tell personal stories in their own words. Immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere of Greenwich Village, and sit back and enjoy a drink as we perform recitals of poetry and prose.
SATURDAYS
2:00 PM
3 HOURS
2-3 BARS
$49
Dismantle the lies other tours tell!
Critic Mary McCarthy once said of Broadway playwright Lillian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’”.
We work hard to dispel the historically inaccurate tales told on other tours, especially the “big fish” tales told by the writers themselves. Our tours are crafted with careful and extensive research, using archival documents like newspapers, pamphlets, personal correspondence, and broadsides. Wherever possible, we have cleared up any myths. However, we still will find many variations of these stories and will share the several different versions, or certainly the most interesting. We never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
No two tours are exactly the same!
Each of our charming and knowledgeable tour guides, many of whom are local actors, share their unique sense of storytelling and performance. Let us know your favorite author beforehand and we will try to incorporate them into the tour if possible.
FEATURING:
James Baldwin
Amiri Baraka
Jessica Tarbox Beals
Samuel Beckett
James Fennmore Cooper
Hart Crane
E.E. Cummings
Diane DiPrima
Gertrude Drick
Marcel Duchamp
Bob Dylan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kinky Friedman
Allen Ginsberg
Emma Goldman
Pete Hamill
Lorraine Hansberry
Ernest Hemingway
Jimi Hendrix
O. Henry
Eugene Ionesco
Henry James
Ellis O. Jones
Jack Kerouac
Emma Lazarus
Ada Limon
Norman Mailer
Frank McCourt
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Anais Nin
Eugene O’Neil
Thomas Paine
Dorothy Parker
Edgar Allan Poe
Lou Reed
J. D. Salinger
John Steinbeck
Dylan Thomas
Mark Twain
Andy Warhol
Orson Welles
Edith Wharton
Lanford Wilson
Dave Van Ronk