08/04/2005 - Maps (Part 5)

And finally the journey of Key and Rose and the final resting place of Gordon Sterrett. There isn’t much to these two locations as they are not pivotal to the story. I guess one could argue that Sterrett’s apartment is important but what I guess I am trying to say is that without the description that the other places have, this apartment feels like New York City stock footage from an episode of Seinfeld. The following places will be up to down,

1. Sixth Avenue – “About nine o’clock of the same night two human beings came out of a cheap restaurant in Sixth Avenue” (page 74).
2. East 27th Street (since I do not know exactly where Sterrett lived on the street I’ll highlight the whole thing) – “Then he took a taxi to the room where he had been living on East Twenty-seventh Street, and, leaning across the table that held his drawing materials, fired a cartridge into his head just behind the temple” (page 125).
3. Fifth Avenue and Broadway (the Flatiron building is highlighted as a visual reference to where Key and Rose are) – “They found the place after a few minutes' patrol of the street --a shoddy tablecloth restaurant between Fifth Avenue and Broadway” (page 78).

Lastly I am unsure of what route the mob of “patriots” took. They went down Sixth Avenue and took a cross street to get to Broadway but since the cross street remains unknown I cannot, in good faith outline the march (page 78). Tomorrow will be similar, in that I will get calendars from the era and highlight important dates along with May 1st and 2nd that are mentioned throughout the story.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. “May Day”. Tales of the Jazz Age. First Pine Street Books: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
Atlas of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Plates 49,55. Map. New York: Bromley. 1916.