2460 Grand Concourse @ Kingsbridge Road, Bronx

This small cottage in the Bronx was the last home of American writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe, who lived here until 1849. It was here that he wrote some of his most famous poems including The Bells and Annabel Lee. He was not, in fact, a New Yorker; he lived here only as an older man. But the desperate, frantic yearning of poems like The Bells shows that he was well in touch with a quintessential theme of modern urbanity: the sense of futile freneticism that sometimes overtakes one on the sidewalk underneath a gray sky and the looming shadows of buildings.