Location Type: Literary Site

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

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cooper Square, 7th Street, was established in 1859 and is among the nation’s oldest and most distinguished institutions of higher learning. It hosted many great writers, including Henry Ward Beecher, William Cullen Bryant, William Lloyd Garrison, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Abraham Lincoln.

Dante Square, Broadway and West 64th Street, New York, New York, is a park honoring Italy’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri; there is a statue of the master.

The Ralph Ellison Memorial is located in Riverside Park at 150th Street & Riverside Drive, New York, New York. Ellison lived at 730 Riverside Drive, right across the street, for many years. The memorial was unveiled in 2003 with a huge celebration with Bill Cosby, Ruby Dee, Jazzmobile, elected officials, etc. It was a great … Continued

The Emma Goldman home is where Ms. Goldman lived in 1903; it is not open to the public.

The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church was built on land which was once the Clement Moore Farm at Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, in an area known as Chelsea Square.

The Harlem Book Fair is the largest book fair of its kind, drawing more than 40,000 visitors to West 135th Street (between 5th Avenue & Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard, Harlem). It takes place in July and includes books, storytelling, readings, and author signings.