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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A coalition of preservationists, scholars and admirers of poet and former Brooklyn Eagle editor Walt Whitman are trying to landmark one of his former homes at 99 Ryerson St., and their effort has ...

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 ...

Banners of well-known poets like Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes hung from the wood-paneled ceilings, as poets sang, rhymed and read their own original works. While football fans were readying beer, ...