A couple more of Manhattan’s classic, exclusive, Upper East Side doors.
East 75 Street Doors
Thursday Doors
Cloisters Doors
The Met Cloisters is at the northern end of Manhattan in Fort Tryon Park at 99 Margaret Corbin Drive and is run by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When I was an Urban Park Ranger many years ago I reenacted Maggie Corbin’s story in the revolutionary war. Read the story on Wikipedia.
Patchin Place Doors
I had a request from a fellow blogger to show the home of E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). The charming alley he lived in is called Patchin Place next to Jefferson Market Library.
The property that became Patchin Place and Milligan Place was once part of a farm belonging to Sir Peter Warren. In 1799 it was sold to Samuel Milligan, who later conveyed it to his son-in-law, Aaron Patchin. The buildings that now occupy the site were put up in 1848-1852 as boarding houses for Basque waiters and other workers at the nearby Brevoort House hotel on 5th Avenue.
A story: The then modernist writer Djuna Barnes (1982-1982) moved into a room-and-a-half apartment at 5 Patchin Place in 1941. She became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window “Are you still alive, Djuna?”.
- For Norm’s Thursday Doors 6/7/2018
- Patchin Place (Wikipedia)
1 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
2 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
5 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
7-9 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
The even more charming private Milligan Place around the corner on 6th Avenue.
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
W 9 Street Doors
I like the lamps too on these Greenwich Village doors on West 9th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue.
