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The "café"—more like a not-too-dark one-room dive—attracts both locals and Columbia students willing to commute the ten blocks from campus to hang with the regulars or to listen to occasional poetry readings and musical experiments. With only a few tables, most drinkers covet the bar stools, from which they can watch TV or chat with the bartenders. The owner, a former Jeopardy champion, hosts trivia night where the winner gets a free bottle of wine. — Shana Liebman

Scenes from the film The Weather Underground were filmed in this bar, and featured owner Brian Flanagan.

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Free Wifi is available, as is a pay computer for internet browsing. Every Sunday at 8:30 p.m. is a full-on trivia competition with prizes awarded. Pool teams from the Night Cafe won the APA city championship in 1999 and 2005.