Andy Warhol purchased this Upper East Side townhouse in 1960, when he was working as a commercial illustrator. Warhol and his mother lived there until her death in 1972.

The photographer Diane Arbus lived in a carriage house, accessed via the alley door to the left of No. 131 Charles Street, between 1957 and 1966.

Painter George Bellows raised the ceiling and added skylights to the top floor of his East 19th Street townhouse, creating a well-lit private studio.

Poet Walt Whitman published "Leaves of Grass" while living at 99 Ryerson Street, in the Wallabout section of present-day Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Writer Truman Capote lived in the basement apartment of 70 Willow Street from 1955-1965, as a guest of his friend, the Broadway stage designer Oliver Smith.

The sculptor Paul Manship, whose “Prometheus” is installed at Rockefeller Center, lived for a time at No. 42, a carriage house at the eastern end of Washington Mews.

Author Joan Didion once lived at this Park Avenue townhouse.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the avant-garde and experimental filmmaker, author and activist Marjorie Keller lived in an apartment in no. 100 while attending graduate school at NYU.

Long-term residents of the secluded Patchin Place have included e.e. cummings, and Djuna Barnes, while Marlon Brando also stayed on the block for a short time. Today, Patchin Place looks much like it did 80 years ago, with one notable exception. Rather than poets and writers, the street’s seclusion has attracted a different kind of privacy-seeking professionals: therapists.

Playwright Arthur Miller lived in a series of Brooklyn Heights Apartments, including this Federal style townhouse on Willow Street.