The Pony Stable Inn was one of the first openly lesbian bars in New York City.
West 4th Street, which runs along the south side of Washington Square and became a lifeline to New York’s Beat culture. The teahouse Mad Hatter at 150 W. 4th was an influential artist destination, which then later became the lesbian bar Pony Stable Inn. Alas being a lesbian bar, the Pony Stable in became a central point for the poetry scene for the beats. In 1949, a young poet named Gregory Corso was just released from prison. Soon after his release Corso became an resident poet at the Pony Stable Inn. Corso worked as a day laborer in New York's garment district, ann by night he would sit and write poetry for all the ladies at a specific table at the Pony Stable