3. Washington Square Diner (Formerly Pony Stable Inn)  – 150 West 4th Street

The Washington Square Diner is built on the location of the former Pony Stable Inn, one of the first lesbian bars in the city. This is where Allen Ginsberg, then a young Columbia College student, met Gregory Corso. Bill Morgan writes, “Corso showed his poems to Ginsberg who was greatly impressed. Corso told Ginsberg he had been watching a neighbor make love in the building across the street from his apartment window, and it turned out to be Allen himself and a girlfriend.”