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Here's Where Hunter S. Thompson Lived In NYC
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Jen Carlson
Published Aug 12, 2013
Modified Aug 12, 2013
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Hunter back in New York in 1988, on Letterman
Earlier today my pitch to live 24 hours like Hunter S. Thompson was killed on account of not being able to procure enough cocaine by 3:45 p.m., the time that Thompson would start to binge on the stuff. Also: lawyers, waivers, etc.
So here I am devouring Just Mango Slices (from Trader Joe's, good stuff!), trying to generate content soberly. Not even a drop of Chivas or puff off a Dunhills. I haven't even cursed yet today. So what to do? Something very un-Hunter S. Thompson like... a list of things that aren't drugs, including photos of nearly every apartment building the writer rested his buzzed-out head at in Manhattan. We would include a list of "fun facts" but it goes without saying the good Doctor hated "fun facts."
These addresses come from letters he sent (published in The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman), and some of the apartments were likely crash pads or shared with a roommate. All still seem to be around today, so maybe you live in one? Maybe that isn't Borax piled behind your fridge, maybe it's vintage cocaine! Don't test that theory out!
December 1957 - January 1958: Morningside Heights
110 Morningside Drive, Apt 53
February 1958 - April 1958: Morningside Heights
562 West 113th Street, Apt 5E5
April 1958 - January 1959: West Village
57 Perry Street, basement apartment (now #55)
December 1959: East Village
69 East 4th Street
July 1960 - September 1960: SoHo
107 Thompson Street (he lived here with then-girlfriend, later wife, Sandra Conklin)
January 1962 - March 1962: Upper East Side
531 East 81st Street
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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