Posted by John Joseph on July 25, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! I have mixed feelings about Midtown — like the rest of the city, I find some of the modern architecture kind of awful but I really like the […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Midtown, Neighborhoods · Tags: 60 East 54th Street, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Donna Alberico, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hotel Elysee, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Midtown, Tennessee Williams, The Monkey Bar
Posted by John Joseph on March 1, 2017 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Who knew that the Sephora at the bottom of the gloriously old building on 497 Fifth Avenue had a lot in common with writing. Authors like Dawn […]
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Posted by Lori Zimmer on December 6, 2016 · 2 Comments
Across from the House of Fantasy, lived the great New York painter, George Bellows. From 1910 to 1925, Bellows lived in the townhouse, and worked in a studio in the […]
Posted by John Joseph on August 31, 2016 · 4 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Remember the faux-speakeasy craze of the early aughts? For a while I dug this rehash of the 1920s but then it became a hassle — if it […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Neighborhoods, West Village · Tags: artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Chumley's, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Mike Rogers, West Village, William S Burroughs, Zelda Fitzgerald
Posted by John Joseph on February 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
LitNerd Extra! If F. Scott Fitzgerald characterized the reckless spirit of New York in the 1920s it’s safe to say Jay McInerney owned the one of the 1980s — here […]