Region: Manhattan

Antoine de Saint-Exupery lived in an apartment at 240 Central Park South when he wrote his book “The Little Prince.”

The Delacorte Theater is an open-air theater in Central Park originally constructed in 1962 for the New York Shakespeare Festival.

John Steinbeck lived at 175 East 78th Street from 1946 until 1949.

Ludwig Bemelmans painted the murals in the bar at the Hotel Carlyle. In return, he and his family were given a suite of rooms for a year and a half.

As a boy, J. D. Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” lived with his parents at 390 Riverside Drive in Manhattan, New York.