Haunts, Hangouts and Special Places
In Dot City, I tried to get a mix of places I know that Dorothy Parker visited, combined with others that she probably had contact with. Living in New York, she soaked up the surroundings and put them on the pages of her work. Many of these locations crop up in her writing. Other are central to her life and times.
Drinking, Dining and Crying
The Alqonquin, home of the Round Table, the famed literary "Vicious Circle" of 1919-1929
Special speakeasies, where Dottie and chums were frequently in their cups
"21" Club, nights of the high life at the famous saloon
Polly Adler's, Dottie and Mr. Benchley hung out together at this infamous brothel
Drinker's Paradise, the former speakeasy Club Intime is now Flute
World War II Woe, hotel where Dottie had a few too many in 1944
The Plaza, the hotel where she was taken to be fired from Vanity Fair
Her Life, 1893-1967
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The grade school where Dorothy Rothschild attended classes in 1900, located on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Blessed Sacrament Academy, early Catholic education that shaped the celebrated writer and wit
Girlhood Walk, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, located at 89th Street and Riverside Drive, is where Dottie walked her dogs
Wit's End, where Dottie's pal Aleck Woollcott lived and entertained
Raton, New Mexico, scene of where Mrs. Parker had her quickie second marriage
The Waldorf-Astoria, hotel where Mrs. Parker and her friends took part in a strike
Denver Nights, in 1934, Mrs. Parker was at the Elitch Gardens summer stock
Pennsylvania Parker, during the Depression Dottie bought a farmhouse in Bucks County
Parker in Hollywood, when the screenwriting career was underway (5 locations in Los Angeles)
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The old offices of The New Yorker are on 44th Street.
Birthplace of The New Yorker, the Hell's Kitchen house on W. 47th Street where Harold Ross founded the magazine, and Dottie and her pals tipped back drinks
The New Yorker, guess who invented "The New Yorker Short Story"? That would be Mrs. Parker, in this office
The Cort, legendary Broadway theater where Dottie sat through shows as a critic
The New York Sun, Dot dated a badboy reporter here
Biltmore Theatre, there has never been another critic like Parker, she sat in the dark here
Dorothy Parker Memorial Garden, at the headquarters of the NAACP in Baltimore. Her ashes are resting here
Central Park, you can't be a Parker fan and not love reading here
Animal Lover, Dottie was nuts about animals, meet her friends
The Ansonia, gorgeous apartment house on the Upper West Side
The Dakota, one of the most famous addresses in New York City
Subway West 72nd Street, in Dorothy's early days, a ride cost a nickel
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