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Book covers of Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, and others who drank here adorn the walls of this prohibition-era speakeasy.
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Albee wrote The Zoo Story here. He first saw the words “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” written in soap on a saloon mirror nearby.
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A plaque marks the home (1904–08) of Mark Twain, designed by James Renwick, Jr., architect of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Twain received guests while propped up in a huge carved bed.
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A charming pocket of 19th-century houses that later attracted ee cummings, John Masefield, and Eugene O’Neill, among others.
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Poet Marianne Moore lived here, and Theodore Dreiser wrote An American Tragedy at No. 16.
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Prominent figures who lived here include Edith Wharton at No. 7 in 1882. Henry James was born at No. 21 in 1843.
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Mark Twain lived at No. 14 in 1900–1, Hart Crane at No. 54 in 1917, and Edward Albee lived in the carriage house at No. 50 during the 1960s.
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Favorite hangout of Norman Mailer and Dylan Thomas, who announced one night in 1953, “I’ve had 18 straight whiskeys,” and passed out. He died the next day.
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Willa Cather wrote six novels here and her Friday “at homes” were attended by the likes of D. H. Lawrence.
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This was Styron’s first “tiny but rather nice” apartment after writing Lie Down in Darkness aged 23.
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