demolished

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In 1880, dissatisfied with the location and seating capacity of the 1854 Academy of Music opera house near Union Square, a group of wealthy businessmen opted to build their own. In all, 70 shareholders provided the $1.7 million required to buy the land and build the opera house at 39th and Broadway1.

• 1. Ed Dinger. "The Metropolitan Opera" [http://www.answers.com/topic/metropolitan-opera] Accessed: June 29, 2009

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The Dvorak House was located at 327 East 17th Street, near Stuyvesant Square Park. It was a 3-story Italianate style row house constructed in 1852, and briefly served as the home of world-renowned Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, from 1892-1895. He composed his Symphony No.9 in E minor "From the New World" during this time1.

• 1. Prial, Frank J. "Dvorak House Declared A Manhattan Landmark." New York Times February 27, 1991.

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Sometimes listed as Dorothy Day Cottages.

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Sometimes listed as Penn Station.

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Sometimes listed as Red Row, Genius Row.

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Sometimes listed as William Fox Audubon, Beverly Hills, San Juan Theater.

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The Lüchow's building was a restaurant established in 1882 by German immigrant August Guido Lüchow. It was a popular destination for many famous New Yorkers including diamond baron Jim Brady, actress Lillian Russell, and composers Richard Strauss, Antonin Dvorak, and Victor Herbert 1.

• 1. Dana, Robert W. "Lüchow’s marking its 75th Anniversary." Tips on Tables reprinted from April 1957.

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Edgar Allan Poe lived at 85 West Third Street in Greenwich Village from 1844 to the early months of 18461 before moving to a cottage in Fordham with his wife and mother-in-law when his wife's health began to deteriorate.Poe wrote "The Cask of Amontillado2

• 1. Nadine Brozan. “Furman Hall, Nine Stories on Sullivan Street; New Law Building Opens at N.Y.U.,” New York Times, Jan. 18, 2004.
• 2. Denny Lee. “The Poe House, and its Mask of Red Bricks,” New York Times, October 19, 2003.