Founded in 1880, the bar once drew longshoreman from the nearby docks but became a magnet for writers like Norman Mailer, James Baldwin and Jack Kerouac in the '50s. Imbued with the literary ghosts of hard-drinking writers past, White Horse Tavern is classy bar from another era. It still draws artists, Wall Street whizzes, local knock-abouts and tourists who want to see where Dylan Thomas infamously drank himself to death (with some 18 shots of whiskey) at the tender age of 39.
