Preservationists are once again trying to landmark the onetime home of Walt Whitman, in Brooklyn, the New York Times has learned. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission rejected a previous ...

There may still be some hope for the designation of Walt Whitman’s former home at 99 Ryerson Street in Wallabout. The efforts of a coalition of preservationists, scholars and fans of Whitman got a ...

Much is known about the life of Brooklyn literary king Walt Whitman, but can you locate the residence where he penned his opus? In Wallabout, Whitman wrote the first version of his greatest and best ...

Preservation advocates are using the co-naming of a Clinton Hill street as Walt Whitman Way as an occasion to spotlight their campaign for city landmark designation for the poet’s home, which stands ...

The city does not think so, and the building’s owner agrees. Then there’s the matter of whether the poet should be honored in such a diverse neighborhood. By Jane Margolies Only a smattering of people ...

Walt Whitman, America's bard and eternal pride of Brooklyn, never stayed in one place for very long. During 28 years as a resident of Brooklyn, he had at least 15 different addresses. All have ...

Despite a push by preservation-minded Brooklynites, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has decided that Walt Whitman didn’t spend enough time at a wood-frame house near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for ...

The home where Walt Whitman toiled on his best-known work, “Leaves of Grass,” sits unmarked, unknown, and unsung on a little-visited street in the Wallabout section of Clinton Hill. If its existence ...

It’s the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birthday tomorrow, May 31st, and New York City is in a flurry of celebration. Though Whitman was born on Long Island, Brooklyn is where he came into his own as ...