James Baldwin Residence ⚠ Unverified Own this place?

From 1965 until his death in 1987, James Baldwin kept his New York home at 137 West 71st Street on the Upper West Side, in a rear ground-floor apartment. Family members lived in the building too, and it became a gathering place for writers and civil rights figures. Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (1956) put love between men at the centre of a serious American novel long before that was safe, and he spoke openly about sexuality when few public figures of his standing would. It's a private residential building, with no museum or interior access. See it from the street, and be respectful of the people who live there.