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Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
Edgar Allan Poe Street
Cafe Edgar's Restaurant
While living in the cottage, Poe wrote Annabel Lee, Eureka, and The Bells, a tale about the bells of Fordham University.
You can visit the cottage by taking the C, D, or #4
subway
to 161st Street.
West 84th street, also known as Edgar Allan Poe street, is a quaint
side-street on the upper west side. Poe lived on the north-west corner of
84th and Broadway in a nineteenth-century residence called the Brennen
Mansion. The following is a transcription of the plaque that is currently
mounted on that corner...
open Sunday thru Thursday 11am - 1am, Friday and Saturday 11am - 2am.
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Upon this sight |
| formerly stood the BRENNEN MANSION |
| in which resided |
| from March 1844 to August 1845 |
| EDGAR ALLAN POE |
| and here during such residence he produced |
| and gave to American literature and to immortality |
| THE RAVEN |
| in commemoration of the poet and of the person |
| this tablet is placed MCMXXII by |
| The New York Shakespeare Society |
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| Donors |
| Appleton Morgan Albert R. Frey |
| Otto H. Kahn Nathan D. Bill |
| John Drew |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Cafe
Edgar's
255 West 84th Street (btwn Broadway and West End Ave)
212-469-6126
Cafe Edgar's serves great food, and doesn't charge you an arm and a leg.
There's no smoking in the restaurant, so leave your cigarettes at home.
Bring your appetites, but don't bring your American Express because they
don't take credit cards.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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