In the 1990s, New York’s Nightlife Found a New Beat – The New York Times

Everyone knows that New York’s nightlife was so much cooler back in the day. They just don’t agree on when that day was. Maybe the glory nights of Danceteria and the Latin Quarter in the 1980s, or the shimmering ‘70s heyday of Studio 54. Maybe back to the punk explosion at CBGB, or further to Andy Warhol’s court at Max’s Kansas City – all the way back past the Savoy Ballroom of the Harlem Renaissance to Pfaff’s beer cellar on Broadway near Bleecker Street, first outpost of American bohemia, where Walt Whitman probably sidled up to some rugged Bowery b’hoy and said, “Things were much livelier last week, too bad you missed it.”