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About - Walt Whitman Initiative
About Mission Statement The Walt Whitman Initiative (WWI) is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to celebrate and honor New York City’sliterary legacy, and to serve as an …See details»
Walt Whitman’s New York City: 10 sites where the poet left ... - 6sqft
Revisiting the Streets that Spawned Walt Whitman's
Jun 4, 1995 As late as 1961, the building in Brooklyn where Whitman set several pages of type for the original edition of "Leaves of Grass" was still standing.See details»
Saving 99 Ryerson: The Peculiar Problem of …
Jun 22, 2021 After nearly five years of petitions and two rejections from the Landmarks Preservation Commission, a group of activists persevere in their efforts to landmark Whitman’s house at 99 Ryerson Street, Brooklyn: the only …See details»
City Council Members Support Landmarking …
May 23, 2018 The efforts of a coalition of preservationists, scholars and fans of Whitman got a boost Monday from six New York City Council members who signed a letter of support for designation.See details»
ww-ryerson-fact-sheet
The only New York City Whitman residence recorded by Whitman that is still standing is 99 Ryerson Street, Brooklyn. Indeed, the house is the only extant building in the five boroughs …See details»
Whitman and New York City | American Experience | PBS
Densely Populated In Whitman's day, New York was simply Manhattan Island. Brooklyn was a separate city across the unspanned river. And while Brooklyn was the seventh largest city in the United ...See details»
Save Whitman’s Ryerson House – Walt Whitman Initiative
The Walt Whitman Initiative, along with Brad Vogel (Executive Director of the New York Preservation Archive Project), a team of historic preservationists (including Andrew Dolkart and Simeon Bankoff), and the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites …See details»
Reliving Walt Whitman's NewYork. - The New York Times
Sep 10, 1976 Helping to spring the area back to Whitman's time will be the tour leaders, Gay Wilson Allen, a biographer of the poet, and Marjorie Pearson, an architectural historian with …See details»
New York City | Whitman Archive
Whitman himself signaled the separate, textual, and perhaps visionary, character of his poetry's city when, objecting to the hateful colonial provenance of the name "New York," he replaced it …See details»
Walt Whitman Initiative - Meetup
The Walt Whitman Initiative (WWI) is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to celebrate and honor New York City’sliterary legacy, and to serve as an organizing center for …See details»
99 Ryerson Street Is Worthy of Landmark Designation
Nov 9, 2017 The Municipal Art Society writes in support of the designation of 99 Ryerson Street as an individual New York City landmark. The only local surviving home of Walt Whitman, 99 …See details»
Walt Whitman’s New York City - Princeton Magazine
Walt Whitman’s New York City “The best, most effective medicine my soul has yet partaken” By Stuart Mitchner Sorting out his first impressions of Walt Whitman in a letter from November …See details»
Walt Whitman Residence - NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
Residences overview Walt Whitman and his family lived in this house when the first edition of his epochal first collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, was finished and published in June 1855. …See details»
Walt Whitman and Mannahatta-New York - JSTOR
During that period, New York grew from a burgeoning town of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand to a vast metropolitan complex with a population approaching one and a half million …See details»
Research Guides: AMST 100: Walt Whitman's New York: Primary …
May 23, 2025 The Walt Whitman Archive endeavors to make Whitman's vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Whitman Papers at the …See details»
Walking the City of Serendipity - AHA
Nov 1, 2014 Walt Whitman is New York’s patron saint of serendipity largely because of his capacity for embracing others empathically. As a result, the city never ceased to yield up …See details»
Brooklyn, New York - Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman lived for almost three decades in Brooklyn, New York, longer than his association with any other city, and although the word itself appears relatively few times in Leaves of …See details»
City, Whitman and the | Whitman Archive
Encyclopedia_entry407 City, Whitman and the About This Item Title: City, Whitman and the Creator (s): Bauerlein, Mark Print Source: The contents of this file are based on a pre-print …See details»
Manhattan - Wikipedia
Manhattan became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898, and houses New York City Hall, the seat of the city's government. [16] Harlem in Upper Manhattan …See details»