In 1981, New York City Landmark status was given to the Harlem home of Langston Hughes at 20 East 127th Street by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and 127th Street was renamed Langston Hughes Place. The Langston Hughes House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982.
Several book stores located in the village of Hobart, New York.
The Provincetown Playhouse, Greenwich Village, presented plays by playwrights Eugene O’Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Maxwell Bodenheim, Alfred Kreymborg, and e.e.cummings.
The Pulitzer Fountain, East 59th Street and Grand Army Plaza, was built in 1916 and given to the city by Joseph Pulitzer.
Public Theatre is where the New York Shakespeare Festival began.
The Royalton Hotel was the one-time home of Robert Benchley and a publishing world gathering place.
Carl Schurz Park, 84th to 90th Streets, was once the private garden of Gracie Mansion; it was named for Evening Post editor/writer and New York Senator Carl Schurz.
The Center for Independent Publishing at the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen is tucked away in a corner office of a landmark library, in the heart of what might be called “Literary Row.” To provide information and draw public awareness to the offerings of the many small presses in the U.S., the Center for … Continued
Trinity Churchyard is the site of Charlotte Temple’s grave. Charlotte Temple was the pseudonym of Charlotte Stanley who may be who is interred here. Charlotte Temple was the main character of a Susanna Haswell Rowson novel. Trinity Churchyard, 74 Trinity Place, Manhattan, New York, is also the final resting place for William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, … Continued
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, near 155th Street and Broadway, is the final resting place for Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens (lecturer on the life of his father, Charles Dickens), and Clement Clarke Moore.