City: New York

The Hotel Chelsea at 222 West 23rd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, New York, New York, was host to many writers.

Central Park Mall, Mid-Park from 66th to 72nd Streets, is home to sculptures of William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, and Fitz-Greene Halleck.

Central Park, East 74th Street, north of Conservatory Water, is home to statues of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Mother Goose, as well as one of Hans Christian Andersen.

Central Park Conservatory Garden, 5th Avenue and 105th Street, is home to a fountain group given to the children of the city in the name of Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of The Secret Garden).

The Century Association (now Club) had as members William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Malcolm Cowley, and Archibald MacLeish.

Chumley’s is where many writers, including John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, congregated.

Columbia University is home to Butler Library, with more than seven million books, including cuneiform tablets and many original manuscripts. The Beat Generation of poets began at Columbia, with students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Other students were Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Lucien Carr, Langston Hughes, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Paul Gallico … Continued

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cooper Square, 7th Street, was established in 1859 and is among the nation’s oldest and most distinguished institutions of higher learning. It hosted many great writers, including Henry Ward Beecher, William Cullen Bryant, William Lloyd Garrison, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Abraham Lincoln.

Dante Square, Broadway and West 64th Street, New York, New York, is a park honoring Italy’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri; there is a statue of the master.

The Ralph Ellison Memorial is located in Riverside Park at 150th Street & Riverside Drive, New York, New York. Ellison lived at 730 Riverside Drive, right across the street, for many years. The memorial was unveiled in 2003 with a huge celebration with Bill Cosby, Ruby Dee, Jazzmobile, elected officials, etc. It was a great … Continued