Location Type: Literary Site

The New School is known for its literary connections.

The Players Club was founded in 1888. Its members have included Gelett Burgess, Richard Harding Davis, Paul Green, Mark Twain, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon.

Cedar Tavern was a popular gathering place for Beat Writers Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and others. The tavern closed in 2006.

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