United States / New York, NY subjects

81 out of 110 (73%) plaques have been curated

102

Gender Diversity


Allen Ginsberg
(1926-1997) poet
Bix Beiderbecke
(1903-1931) pianist
Brooks Atkinson
(1894-1984) New York Times drama critic
Dylan Thomas
(1914-1953) poet
Thomas Wolfe
(1900-1938) author
Horace Greeley
(1811-1872) founder of the New-York Tribune
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937) writer
Mae West
(1893-1980) singer
Marcus Garvey
(1887-1940) Pan-Africanist leader
Federico García Lorca
(1898-1936) poet
Edward Livingston
(1764-1836) United States Senator
Humphrey Bogart
(1899-1957) actor
Brendan Behan
(1923-1964) republican
Hotel Chelsea, New York
(1884-present) hotel
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950) poet
Andy Warhol
(1928-1987) Pop artist
Scott Joplin
(1868-1917) King of Ragtime
Cecil B. DeMille
(1881-1959) director of silent epic films
John Dewey
(1859-1952) influential educator
Victor Herbert
(1859-1924) conductor
Harry Houdini
(1874-1926) magician
George Gershwin
(1898-1937) composer
Ira Gershwin
(1896-1983) lyricist
John Steinbeck
(1902-1968) author
John J. Fitzgerald
(1894-1963) turf reporter
Malvina Hoffman
(1887-1966) sculptor
James Cagney
(1899-1986) actor
Margaret Hamilton
(1902-1985) actor
Emma Thursby
(1845-1931) soprano
Hart Crane
(1899-1932) poet
Charles Ives
(1874-1954) composer
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869-1935) poet
Willa Cather
(1873-1947) author
Richard Wright
(1908-1960) author of Native Son
Dawn Powell
(1896-1965) novelist
Beatrix Farrand
(1872-1959) landscape gardener
Joseph Papp
(1921-1991) founder and impresario of the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater
Henry Miller
(1891-1980) author
Marianne Moore
(1887-1972) poet
Jackie Robinson
(1919-1972) Brooklyn Dodgers infielder
Lady Deborah Moody
(1586-1659) Lady
Lou Gehrig
(1903-1941) "The Iron Horse"
E. E. Cummings
(1894-1962) poet
George Grosz
(1893-1959) painter
Claudio Arrau
(1903-1991) pianist
James J. Corbett
(1866-1933) world heavyweight boxing champion
Alfred Butts
(1900-1993) architect
Roy Wilkins
(1901-1981) civil rights leader
Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) author of Common Sense
Jacob von Hogflume
(1864-1909) inventor of time travel
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849) writer
Clement Clarke Moore
(1779-1863) poet
General George Washington
(1732-1799) Father of his country
Eugene O'Neill
(1888-1953) playwright
Harold Ross
(1892-1951) magazine editor
Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967) poet
Harpo Marx
(1888-1964) Marx Brother
Orson Welles
(1915-1985) actor
Marian Anderson
(1897-1993) contralto
Dorothy Thompson
(1893-1961) journalist
J. Henry Rothschild
Fiorello Henry La Guardia
(1882-1947) one of the first Italian-Americans elected to Congress
Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943) composer
Jack Kerouac
(1922-1969) poet
Washington Irving
(1783-1859) writer
Kim Hunter
(1922-2002) actor
Robert Emmett
playwright
Fred Christ Trump
(1905-1999)
Thomas Edison
(1847-1931)
Sid Caesar
(1922-2014) comic actor
Carl Reiner
(1922-2020)
Mel Brooks
(1926-present) actor
Neil Simon
(1927-2018) playwright
Howard Morris
(1919-2005)
Mel Tolkin
(1913-2007)
Lucille Kallen
(1922-1999) writer
Tony Webster
(1922-1987)
Danny Simon
(1918-2005)
Max Liebman
(1902-1981)
Woody Allen
(1935-present)
Joseph Stein
(1912-2010)
Fats Waller
(1904-1943) composer
Margaret Wise Brown
(1910-1952) author of Goodnight Moon
Herman Melville
(1819-1891) author of Moby Dick
George Herman Ruth
(1895-1948) baseball player
Al Hirschfeld
(1903-2003) Master of Caricature
Frank O'Hara
(1926-1966) poet
John Davison Rockefeller Jr.
(1874-1960) financier
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962) politician
John Pierpont Morgan
(1837-1913) banker
Robert Benchley
(1889-1945) wit
William Faulkner
(1897-1962) literary luminary
Alexander Woollcott
(1887-1943) wit
Sinclair Lewis
(1885-1951) literary luminary
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946) literary luminary
James Thurber
(1894-1961) literary luminary
Donald Trump
(1946-present) television celebrity
Emma Goldman
(1869-1940) anarchist
Levi Parsons Morton
Nathan Hale
(d.1776)
James Baldwin
(1924-1987) civil rights activist
Edna Ferber
(1887-1968) novelist