Tag: edgar allan poe

Just like today, nabbing a rental in Manhattan was not an easy process in 1844. Poe had moved to the Upper West Side area to escape high rents around Washington Square...

Edgar's Cafe, at 255 West 84th Street, paid homage to Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in a farmhouse on West 84th Street in the 1840's. Poe wrote The Raven in that house in 1844. The Mediterranean restaurant had a large portrait of the famous author in the dining room. It ...