# Legendary literary hangouts in New York City **Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/) **Published on:** 2021-08-27 **Categories:** be-a-globizen, creative-economy, literary-hangouts, new-york, new-york-city, new-york-times, night-mayor, nighttime-economy, urbanism **URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/legendary-literary-hangouts-in-new-york-city ## Content The New York Times' recent celebration of the city's "legendary literary hangouts" is an important reminder of one of the great features of city life. Cities have a way of mixing different people together and inspiring the creation of great things. And sometimes that happens rather informally. (That's one of the reasons why there's tremendous value in the nighttime economy.) Tina Jordan writes: "You might think of them as solitary creatures, furiously scribbling or typing alone, but as long as there have been writers in New York City, they have socialized together in an assortment of bars, restaurants, apartments and clubs." For the full thing, click here. ## Publication Information - [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/): Publication homepage - [All Posts](https://brandondonnelly.com/): More posts from this publication - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@brandondonnelly): Subscribe to updates - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/donnelly_b): Follow on Twitter ## Optional - [Collect as NFT](https://brandondonnelly.com/legendary-literary-hangouts-in-new-york-city): Support the author by collecting this post - [View Collectors](https://brandondonnelly.com/legendary-literary-hangouts-in-new-york-city/collectors): See who has collected this post