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The Dead Poet Bar Gives You Free Drinks on Your Birthday — With a Brilliant Catch

January 27, 2020 | 8:42 PM - Updated on January 28, 2020 | 3:08 AM
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The Dead Poet Bar at 450 Amsterdam Avenue near 82nd Street likes to celebrate birthdays, and will happily celebrate yours by pouring you some free booze. It’s one of the rare remaining local spots that gives freebies to people celebrating their special day, the Wall Street Journal recently found.

But there’s a catch. To receive free drinks — excluding shots, premium beers and liquors and some cocktails — you have to share a birthday with a famous writer. There’s a list of birth dates at the bar. If you don’t have the rare luck of sharing a date with someone like Edgar Allan Poe (January 19) or Virginia Woolf (January 25), you’ll have to find another literary great who shares your birthday and then convince the bartender that the person is worthy of the liquor (no your Uncle Barney who sends around emails with dirty limericks doesn’t count).

So enjoy your birthday, and dedicate your next cold one to a great dead poet.

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Mike
Mike
5 years ago

Dead poet is a terrific bar. So is their sibling bar George Keeleys (if you order food at Poet it comes from Keeleys). Two of the best bars on the uws!

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Rita
Rita
5 years ago
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November 13/I share mine with Robert Louis Stevenson. Must remember to go there in November. no u

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Bill
Bill
5 years ago

Why no January 18? A.A. Milne, the man who gave us Pooh Bear, isn’t worthy of a shot? BAH HUMBUG!

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RCP
RCP
5 years ago
Reply to  Bill

As Soup Nazi might say: “No honey for you.”

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UWSmom
UWSmom
5 years ago
Reply to  Bill

@Bill I think you mean “Oh, Bother.”

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LeVar Burton's Birthday Buddy
LeVar Burton's Birthday Buddy
5 years ago

“If you don’t have the rare luck of sharing a date with someone like Edgar Allan Poe (January 19) or Virginia Woolf (January 25), you’ll have to find another literary great who shares your birthday and then convince the bartender that the person is worthy of the liquor”

I share mine with LeVar Burton. C’mon, “Reading Rainbow”?! Man’s a legend.

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Keith Marder
Keith Marder
5 years ago

I have Abraham Lincoln. The Gettysburg Address was some great writing

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Wijmlet
Wijmlet
5 years ago

I like the plant store next door.

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Scott
Scott
5 years ago

Guinness Club!!

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Chris
Chris
5 years ago

I share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and have enjoyed plenty of free birthday drinks at the Dead Poet. It is a great deal!

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Mark Moore
Mark Moore
5 years ago
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Me too! I have to go there in July.

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David
David
5 years ago

Anton Chekhov. Ice cold vodka. Thanks!

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Mark Moore
Mark Moore
5 years ago

My birthday’s the same as Ernest Hemingway’s. No kidding.

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MQue
MQue
5 years ago

8/24 Dave Chappelle Is my famous bday

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sp
sp
5 years ago

I share mine with Joseph Heller of Catch-22 fame, and he was a native New Yorker to boot. I sure hope they have him in their book.

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Betsy
Betsy
5 years ago

I’m in! I share with D.H. Lawrence! See you in September!

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Ish Kabibble
Ish Kabibble
5 years ago

Big fan of Dead Poet. Super good guys that work and own it.

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Betsy
Betsy
5 years ago

I’m in! I share a birthday with D.H. Lawrence! See you in September!

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Bob
Bob
5 years ago

Does Oprah Winfrey (Jan. 29) count?

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Janis
Janis
5 years ago

Hmm, I share a birthday with two famous writers. However, they are song writers. Paul McCartney and Sammy Cahn.
Would that count?

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Coco
Coco
5 years ago

Can I retroactively come get a pint for sharing my birthday with Edgar Allan Poe? It’s also Dolly Parton’s, Phil Everly’s, Janis Joplin’s and Robert Palmer’s birthday, amongst others. They can all be considered poets in a way. One free drink for each?

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Maureen
Maureen
5 years ago

Oooh, now I need to do some research!

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Jon
Jon
5 years ago

TIL I share the same birthday as E. E. Cummings.

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Paul on W 67
Paul on W 67
5 years ago

For those of us born on May 4, let’s try to convince the bartender that David Guterson (b. 1956) is a worthy author.

Guterson wrote the 1994 bestseller ‘Snow Falling On Cedars’ as well as ‘East of the Mountains’ (1999), ‘Our Lady of the Forest’ (2003), ‘The Other’ (2008),and ‘Ed King’ (2011).

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Michael
Michael
5 years ago

I’ve got Hunter S. Thompson on my birthday…free drinks would be a fitting way to honor him…and me!

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Marilyn
Marilyn
5 years ago

Do you think Albert Einstein counts? I think physicists would say he wrote poetry…. ?

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Michael
Michael
5 years ago

Yikes- just missed this. Would also like to point out that Robert Burns was born on January 25th, as was I. And he was a poet to boot, so enough with the Virginia Woolf references!!!

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LarryK
LarryK
5 years ago

Yippee!! Look for me on February 8th with John Grisham. Thanks

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