Region: Manhattan

The Pulitzer Fountain, East 59th Street and Grand Army Plaza, was built in 1916 and given to the city by Joseph Pulitzer.

Public Theatre is where the New York Shakespeare Festival began.

The Royalton Hotel was the one-time home of Robert Benchley and a publishing world gathering place.

Carl Schurz Park, 84th to 90th Streets, was once the private garden of Gracie Mansion; it was named for Evening Post editor/writer and New York Senator Carl Schurz.

The Center for Independent Publishing at the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen is tucked away in a corner office of a landmark library, in the heart of what might be called “Literary Row.” To provide information and draw public awareness to the offerings of the many small presses in the U.S., the Center for … Continued

Trinity Churchyard is the site of Charlotte Temple’s grave. Charlotte Temple was the pseudonym of Charlotte Stanley who may be who is interred here. Charlotte Temple was the main character of a Susanna Haswell Rowson novel. Trinity Churchyard, 74 Trinity Place, Manhattan, New York, is also the final resting place for William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, … Continued

Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, near 155th Street and Broadway, is the final resting place for Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens (lecturer on the life of his father, Charles Dickens), and Clement Clarke Moore.

Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street YMHA, 1395 Lexington Avenue, hosts one of the oldest and most revered reading series in the country; it has presented such major modern poets as W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and Dylan Thomas. Other Poetry Center guests have included Saul Bellow, … Continued

Washington Square Park, Washington Square, Greenwich Village, New York, New York, was a favorite stopping place of writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), who met there in 1888. Others were Henry James and Edith Wharton.

The Edith Wharton Birthplace is not open to the public.