West End Bar
The West End, also known for a time as the "West End Gate", was located on Broadway near 114th Street in the Morningside Heights (New York City) neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. From its establishment in 1911, the bar served as a popular gathering place for Columbia University students, faculty and administration (its slogan was "Where Columbia Had Its First Beer"). The bar was also a meeting place for many Beat Generation writers as well as many 1960's student activists when they attended the university.
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