NEW YORK (AP) - F<ir four to
eight months in the mid- 1840s - just
how long isn’t clear - Edgar Allan
Poe and his ailing wife lived in a four
story brick home in Greenwich
Village, at the center of New York’s
thriving literary scene! . ^ A
Basking in the acclaim that fol
lowed the publication of “The Raven”
a short time earlier, the master of
Gothic horror either did - or didn’t -
start a major new short story, produce
important poems and soak up experi
ences that influenced his later work.
The details aren’t just academic.
In a neighborhood where real
estate now commands the rapt inter
est literature once enjoyed, the West
Third Street home is at the center of a
dispute between Poe devotees and the
building’s powerful landlord, New
York University.
. NYU, which dominates the area
near Washington Square Park, uses
the Poe building for law school
offices and student workspace but is
considering knocking it down.
Quoth the Poe devotees,
“Nevermore!”
“This is the last tangible connec
tion to Poe in Manhattan,” said
Jeffrey Savoye of the Edgar Allan Poe
Society of Baltimore.
NYU contends the building has
little literary significance.
No one disputes that Poe lived in
the 85 W. Third St. home - then
known as 85 Amity St. - in late 1845
and early 1846.
But university officials point out
that the master of the macabre moved N
several times a year for much of his
life - sometimes just a few steps
ahead of the rent collector - leaving
communities up and down the East
Coast boasting of “Poe houses.”
Closer to Greenwich Village, Poe
fans can trek to the Edgar Allan Poe
Cottage in the Bronx or visit a cafe
named for him at the site of one of his
other homes, on the Upper West Side
of Manhattan.
“He lived in nine places in
Manhattan alone in the decade of
1837 to 1846,” said Lynne Brown, an
NYU spokeswoman.
“This happens to be one of them.
The university’s position is that the
building itself is not of historic or
architectural significance.”
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