Remembering Café Le Metro: ‘We Were the Resistance to John Q Average American’

Cafe Le Metro, October of 1964
"In 1963 Newsday reported on artists who had abandoned Greenwich Village for the Lower East Side, 'New York’s newest bargain-basement bohemia': 'Poets aren’t lacking on the Lower East Side. Cynthia and Moe Margules, who operate Le Metro, a coffeehouse on Second Avenue, have found that poets are regular, if not heavy-spending customers. Once or twice a week the poets drop by in force to read to each other.' Café Le Metro, like the Tenth Street Coffeehouse and Les Deux Mégots on Seventh Street, was a popular hangout where poets gathered to drink coffee, socialize and recite their work."
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