Location Type: Literary Site

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.

Mary McCarthy lived in an apartment at 18 Gay Street, New York, New York, between Christopher & Waverly Place.

McSorley’s Old Ale House was a popular writers’ watering place at 15 East 7th Street, New York, New York.

Herman Melville was born at 6 Pearl Street, New York, New York. The spot is marked by a plaque and a sculptural bust of Melville by William N. Beckwith.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s house, 75½ Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, is marked by a plaque. It is known as the “narrowest house in New York.” Ms. Millay lived here for a short time in 1923 and 1924. It is not open to the public.