Located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, the Albert Hotel was home for Thomas Wolfe from 1923 until 1926. The hotel was named for an earlier resident, artist Albert Ryder. From its opening in 1887, the Albert was home, hotel and hang-out for generations of artists, activists, writers, poets and musicians. The Hotel Albert was … Continued
The 10 story Jewish Daily Forward Building was erected at 173-175 East Broadway between Rutgers and Jefferson Streets in 1911-1912 by architect George A. Boehm. It was home to many Jewish social and benevolent organizations and the “Jewish Daily Forward” which was, in the 1920s, the largest Yiddish daily newspaper in the world. Editor of … Continued
Pete’s Tavern, previously known as Healy’s Cafe, was a favorite hang out of O. Henry and Ludwig Bemelmans. A plaque placed on the front of Pete’s Tavern in 1999 by the Friends of the Library Association honors O. Henry and Ludwig Bemelmans.
Herman Melville lived at 104 East 26th Street from 1863 until his death in 1891. The house is gone, but a plaque on the 26th Street side of the building at 357 Park Avenue South remains to his honor.
Writers’ homes located on St. Luke’s Place included Theodore Dreiser’s, Marianne Moore’s, and Sherwood Anderson’s.
Truman Capote lived at 870 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York, during the last years of his life.
It is believed that in 1902, O. Henry’s daughter lived in Grove Court, located on Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets, and that the writer’s famous short story, “The Last Leaf” was conceived here.
E. B. White and his wife, Katharine Sergeant, lived at Turtle Bay Gardens at 239 East 48th Street and at 229 East 48th Street during the 1940s and 1950s. Dorothy Thompson also lived at Turtle Bay Gardens at 237 East 48th Street from 1941 until 1957.
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.
Thomas Paine lived the last month of his life in a house at 59 Grove Street until June 8, 1809 when he died. Today, a house built on the site in 1839 bears a plaque containing a quote from Thomas Paine.