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.
Cemetery of the Evergreens is the final resting place for Walt Kelly and Amy Vanderbilt.
Green-Wood Cemetery, East of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, is the final resting place of many New York City writers, including Jean-Michael Basquiat, Henry Ward Beecher, James Gordon Bennett, Fred Ebb, Horace Greeley, Laura Jean Libbey, Edward R. Murrow, and Theodore Roosevelt.
The Algonquin Hotel was home to the famous Algonquin Round Table, and hosted Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, and Franklin P. Adams. Writers who stayed there included George Jean Nathan, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, and Tennessee Williams.
Theodore Dreiser had the house Iroki built near Mount Kisco, and lived there from 1929-1938. The private residence has the original stone exterior; a cabin he built for a studio also remains on the property.
American Academy of Arts and Letters has included such members as Pearl S. Buck, William S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, e.e.cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, Lillian Hellman, William Dean Howells, Christopher Isherwood, William James, Henry James, Carl Sandburg, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Thornton Wilder, and Thomas Wolfe.
Ferncliff Cemetery is the final resting place for Oscar Hammerstein II, Malcolm X (Hajj Malick El Shabazz) and Cornell (George Hopley) Woolrich.
Bryant Park, behind the main branch of the New York Public Library, was named after poet and editor William Cullen Bryant.
Horace Greeley lived in Chappaqua for the last 18 years of his life. There is a room at the New Castle Town Hall with some of his belongings and artifacts.
The apartment where W. H. Auden lived from 1953 to 1972 is not open to the public.