Region: Manhattan

Herman Melville lived at 104 East 26th Street from 1863 until his death in 1891. The house is gone, but a plaque on the 26th Street side of the building at 357 Park Avenue South remains to his honor.

It is believed that in 1902, O. Henry’s daughter lived in Grove Court, located on Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets, and that the writer’s famous short story, “The Last Leaf” was conceived here.

Truman Capote lived at 870 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York, during the last years of his life.

E. B. White and his wife, Katharine Sergeant, lived at Turtle Bay Gardens at 239 East 48th Street and at 229 East 48th Street during the 1940s and 1950s. Dorothy Thompson also lived at Turtle Bay Gardens at 237 East 48th Street from 1941 until 1957.

Clement Clarke Moore lived at St. Luke-in-the-Fields, then known as St. Luke’s Episcopal Chapel of Trinity Parish and was the first warden and vestryman of the newly built St. Luke’s Episcopal Chapel of Trinity Parish.

Thomas Paine lived the last month of his life in a house at 59 Grove Street until June 8, 1809 when he died. Today, a house built on the site in 1839 bears a plaque containing a quote from Thomas Paine.

14 Gay Street was the home of author Ruth McKenney and her sister, Eileen.

Pfaff’s was a drinking establishment in Manhattan, New York, known for its literary and artistic clientele. It was located at 647 Broadway near Bleecker Street.

The San Remo Cafe was a bar at 93 MacDougal Street at the corner of Bleecker Street in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village. It was a hangout for Bohemians and writers. It opened in 1925 and closed in 1967. On July 29, 2013, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation unveiled a … Continued