The Gaslight Cafe

The Gaslight Cafe
The former site of the Gaslight Cafe as seen in November 2021.
Location116 MacDougal Street
New York City, New York
United States
Coordinates40°43′47.01″N 74°0′1.93″W / 40.7297250°N 74.0005361°W / 40.7297250; -74.0005361
Owner
  • John Mitchell
  • John Moyant
  • Sam Hood
  • Ed Simon
TypeCoffeehouse
Genre(s)Folk music, et al.
Opened1958
Closed1971

The Gaslight Cafe was a coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Also called The Village Gaslight, it opened in 1958 and became a venue for folk music and other musical acts. It closed in 1971.