A place in New York

Myrtle's apartment

Where the story puts it, as near as can be told.

A long white row of apartment houses uptown, a taxi at the kerb.1922 · Illustration, AI-made for Same Streets

The top-floor flat Tom Buchanan keeps for Myrtle Wilson, "one slice in a long white cake of apartment-houses" on 158th Street. The novel names only the street, which in Manhattan runs through Washington Heights; the building is invented.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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Visiting today

158th Street runs through Washington Heights, a residential neighbourhood. A few blocks away the Morris–Jumel Mansion, Manhattan's oldest house, is a museum. Subway: 157 St on the 1 train.

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Myrtle's apartment

The stories that come here

The Great Gatsby — New York