Artifacts

 

POE COTTAGE

Poe Park, Kingsbridge, The Bronx

Edgar Allen Poe, begetter of the crime fiction genre with The Mystery of Edwin Drood, lived and penned in what was then rural New York City. Writing poetry, gardening and socializing with the faculty of St. John’s University (now Fordham). Poe rented the house with his wife Virginia and his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm. After Virginia’s death there in 1847, Poe moved to Baltimore where he passed, inelegantly, in the gutter  in 1849. Read More >>

POE HOUSE

Greenwich Village, New York City

Extant. Almost indistinguishable in expansive urban renewal, Poe lived briefly at this West 3 Street address, supposedly writing The Raven (published 1845, The Evening Mirror) In 2001, New York University demolished the building for its new dormitory while maintaining the facade and a honorary museum. Read More >>

 

 

SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES

Old Fulton Fish Market-Lower Manhattan

Extant. Open in 1822, the Fulton Fish Market, housed in the Tin Building, was the center of commerce for everything fish in New York City. Notorious for its briny smell and Mafia infiltration (taxing your sole), the market was relocated by the city to the Bronx in 2005. The site is up for redevelopment. Read More on Infamous New York >>

 

THE SUBWAY MAP THAT RATTLED NEW YORKERS

The New York Times, August 5, 2012

“No sooner had the MTA introduced a new map of the New York subway system on Aug. 7, 1972, than complaints flooded in. Many stations seemed to be in the wrong places.,,Central Park, it appeared to be almost square, rather than an elongated rectangle, three times bigger than the map suggested, and was depicted in a dreary shade of gray…Read more at nytimes.com>>>