2901 Broadway
also 2913 Broadway, 2911 Broadway, 601 West 113th Street | Morningside Heights | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1911
The West End bar opens on Broadway near 114th Street
The West End bar opened in this building in 1911. In the early 1940s Columbia students Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr spent hours there talking about their studies and futures, and in the 1960s SDS leader Mark Rudd was a regular. The bar closed in 2006; the space later held Havana Central and, as of 2021, the board game café Hex & Co.
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- 1973
Phil Schaap starts a jazz program at the West End
Jazz historian Phil Schaap began running a jazz program at the West End in 1973, while he was an undergraduate at Columbia, and kept it going until the mid-1990s. By then the bar, which opened in 1911, had already been a gathering place for Beat writers in the 1940s and student activists in the 1960s.
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