Cypress Hills Cemetery
Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens, New York, is the final resting place for Mae West.
Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens, New York, is the final resting place for Mae West.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery lived in an apartment at 240 Central Park South when he wrote his book “The Little Prince.”
The Delacorte Theater is an open-air theater in Central Park originally constructed in 1962 for the New York Shakespeare Festival.
John Steinbeck lived at 175 East 78th Street from 1946 until 1949.
Ludwig Bemelmans painted the murals in the bar at the Hotel Carlyle. In return, he and his family were given a suite of rooms for a year and a half.
The Hotel des Artistes was home to writers Fannie Hurst, Carolyn Wells Houghton, Noel Coward, and Edna Ferber.
As a boy, J. D. Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” lived with his parents at 390 Riverside Drive in Manhattan, New York.
Norman Mailer lived in an apartment at 142 Columbia Heights at Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights.
Richard Wright wrote his greatest work, “Native Son,” in a renovated house that still stands at 175 Carlton Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
Clement Clarke Moore lived at St. Luke-in-the-Fields, then known as St. Luke’s Episcopal Chapel of Trinity Parish and was the first warden and vestryman of the newly built St. Luke’s Episcopal Chapel of Trinity Parish.