4. Patchin Place, Greenwich Village

Built on the site of a former farm, Patchin Place is often referred to as a mews, in publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker, to name a couple). The houses that stand, built in around 1848, were always residential, built some say originally as boarding houses. The street is known for having housed Theodore Dreiser, Djuna Barnes, and perhaps most famously e.e. Cummings at 4 Patchin Place from 1913 until he died in 1962. Marlon Brando’s sister also resided here, where Brando reportedly roomed briefly in 1943. It also has the last 19th century gaslight lamp post (now electrified) in New York City.