Slugs' Saloon

Due to New York City regulations, the word "saloon" had to be dropped from the name.

[2] During the mid-1960s it slowly started attracting regular jazz performances, developing a reputation as a musician's bar.

By the late 1960s the club had grown a vibrant scene in its out-of-the-way location, with performances from prominent jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, among many others.

Audiences included a number of well-known artists and musicians, ranging from Larry Rivers to Paul H. Brown to Bob Thompson and Salvador Dalí.

The venue saw the death of Lee Morgan on February 19, 1972, when he was shot at the bar by his common-law wife Helen Moore.