The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar Page B

East Sixty-seventh Street.
    6. The Highsmith apartment at 48 Grove Street. The radical political philosopher Sidney Hook was a neighbor here; John Wilkes Booth is said to have plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the Federal mansion across the street.
    7. Marie’s Crisis Café: The piano bar on Grove Street at whose site Tom Paine died, it is a block from the Highsmith apartment at 48 Grove and next to the building where the murder that inspired the film On the Waterfront took place. Pat loved piano bars and musical comedy; she followed the Revuers—Judy Holliday, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green—in all their Greenwich Village venues.
    8. Pat’s summer sublet on Morton Street in 1940. “I consider my experience in Morton Street, my contact with various people there, quite invaluable.”
    9. Barnard College, Pat’s “ivory tower,” 1938–42.
    10. Mary and Stanley Highsmith’s apartment on East Fifty-seventh Street.
    11. Pat’s apartment at 353 East Fifty-sixth Street.
    12. Sangor-Pines Comics Shop, 10 West Forty-fifth Street.
    13. Timely comics (later Marvel Comics), Empire State Building.
    14. Café Nicholson on East Fifty-eighth Street.
    15. Pat’s apartment at 75 Irving Place.
    16. Village hangouts: The Jumble Shop, the Prohibition era tearoom at 176 MacDougal Street, and the lesbian bar L’s (or El’s) at 116 MacDougal Street.
    17. Henry Street Settlement House: Where Pat took piano lessons from Judy [Tuvim] Holliday’s mother.
    18. Brooks Brothers, Madison Avenue at Forty-fourth Street, Pat’s preferred place to buy shirts and vests.
    19. Art galleries: Christopher Fourth: the Village art gallery belonging to Pat’s friends in Manhattan and New Hope, Peggy and Michael Lewis. The Midtown Galleries where Betty Parsons worked; the Betty Parsons Gallery opened in 1946.
    20. Train and bus stations: Pennsylvania Station: The old Penn Station, modelled on the Baths of Caraculla; Grand Central Terminal; Port Authority Bus Terminal.
    21. Caso’s Drugstore: Corner of Third Avenue and Sixty-eighth Street, “where I used to go at sixteen and fifteen, when I went to high school a block from here…. And the crises I have known here, the faces I looked for, and saw, or missed, the afternoons metamorphosed by some overwhelming event that happened in school that day, days that twisted one’s life around completely and permanently, I remember them.”
    22. The Hotel Earle: corner of Waverly Place and Washington Square (now the Washington Square Hotel); Pat stayed here and so did Mary Highsmith.
    23. The Chelsea Hotel: Pat stayed here several times in the 1960s when she was taking notes on her old Greenwich Village haunts.
    24. Kingsley Skattebol, Pat’s friend from Barnard, had an apartment on West Eleventh Street.
    25. Buffie Johnson, Pat’s old friend, owned a loft building at 102 Greene Street.
    26. Bloomingdale’s department store: Pat, in real life, met Kathleen Senn here while she was working in the toy department and living on East Fifty-sixth Street.
    27. The East Village and East Ninth Street: Respectively, the artistic domain and home of writer and performance artist Lil Picard, Pat’s longtime friend.
    28. Gracie Square: The Upper East Side address where Pat visited the painter Fanny Myers [Brennan], who, like Cleo in The Talented Mr. Ripley , painted miniscule landscapes.
    FICTION
    A. Strangers on a Train : Guy Haines’s apartment on West Fifty-third Street which Charles Bruno, his Alter Ego, haunts.
    B. Found in the Street : Ralph Linderman’s apartment on Bleecker Street Pat makes two geographical errors in Found in the Street : she gives Ralph a job at an arcade on Eighth Avenue in the West Eighties. Eighth Avenue becomes Central Park West at Fifty-ninth Street, and the arcades themselves would have been in the West Forties.
    Found in the Street : Natalia and Jack Sutherland’s