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9 Patchin Place CHELSEA & THE
Built in 1848 to house GARMENT DISTRICT
waiters from the Brevoort Hudson River GRAMERCY &
Hotel, it was later home to GREENWICH THE FLATIRON
DISTRICT
VILLAGE
the poet E. E. Cummings
and other famous writers
of the 1920s and 1930s.
SOHO & EAST
TRIBECA VILLAGE
Locator Map
See map pp16–17
To W 14th
P E R R Y S T St subway
(3 blocks)
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N 8. Jefferson Market Courthouse
E The courthouse was built in 1877,
A V and has been voted the fifth most
H beautiful building in the US. It was
C H R I S T O P H E R S T R E E T I X T designed by Calvert Vaux, who
co-designed Central Park. The
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building was converted into
a public library in 1967.
J O N E S S T
W A S H I N G T O N P L A C E
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0 yards 100
To West 4th Street
subway (2 blocks)

The Northern
Dispensary began Gay Street attracted many aspiring artists,
offering free medical care to the poor in 1831. Edgar writers, and musicians during the 1920s. It was
Allan Poe (1809–49) was treated here for a cold in the setting for Ruth McKenney’s novel My Sister
1837. Since 1998, the building has been unoccupied. Eileen and the film Carlito’s Way (1993).

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