White Horse Tavern

A longshoremen's bar since 1880, this tavern predates nearly every other watering hole left in Greenwich Village and calls itself the city's second-oldest continuously run bar. Dylan Thomas drank his last round here in November 1953, then collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel; his portrait still hangs by the seat he used. A 2019 renovation added a house martini and polished the stools. The brass rail, pendulum clock and horse-head chandeliers were already there in his day, and the kitchen still runs to shrimp cocktail, fried pickles and a Pat LaFrieda burger, poured alongside Miller High Life ponies and a cocktail named for its most famous regular.