Arnold Rothstein, the Prohibition-era Jewish mob kingpin who was the model for Gatsby's sentimental yet coldhearted friend Meyer Wolfsheim, lived in this house.

Nick Carraway's frequent travels to Long Island are routed through this bygone New York City icon.

In The Great Gatsby Roosevelt Island is referenced by its contemporaneous name, Blackwell's Island, as characters repeatedly passed over it en route to the city.

Nick Carraway describes his daily evening commute from the Yale Club: down Madison Avenue and west on 33rd Street to Old Penn Station.

On one such evening commute, Carraway passed this grand Victorian lodging house: "If the night was mellow, I strolled down Madison Avenue past the old Murray Hill Hotel and over Thirty-Third Street to the Pennsylvania Station."

Fitzgerald frequented this speakeasy in the 1920s, along with John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, William Faulkner and other local literati.

F. Scott and his wife, Zelda, often visited the Plaza in the 1920s. In his novel, Nick and Jordan have tea here.

During one of Carraway's hot summertime commutes between West Egg and Penn Station, which, (in his world), passed through Chelsea, "\[o]nly the hot whistles of the National Biscuit Company broke the simmering hush at noon."

Today's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park was the site of the "Valley of Ashes" where the Wilsons lived. In the 1920s, the area epitomized the term "no-man's land," in that it was piled with ashes from the city's coal-burning furnaces.

The Great Gatsby's orginal cover design was inspired by the Coney Island skyline, according to late Fitzgerald expert Matthew J. Bruccoli.

In Baz Luhrmann's 2013 film adaptation, Gatsby’s infamous mansion is outfitted with period-appropriate china and flatware by Tiffany & Co (where Fitzgerald was once a customer).

"The city seen from Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world." - Nick Carraway