Bank Street (Manhattan)

The Bank Street College of Education, which was founded in 1916 as the Bureau of Educational Experiments, was located on Bank Street from 1930 to 1970. It retains the name but is no longer located there. Grace Jones once lived at no. 166. The couple's neighbors included John Cage, Bob Dylan, Jerry Rubin whose phone they would use to avoid FBI wiretapping. In April1973, Lennon and Ono moved to The Dakota building, located on the upper West Side of New York. The writer John Dos Passos lived at no. 11 in 1924–25 when he worked on his novel Manhattan Transfer. His publisher, James Laughlin, lived next door at no. 9. Writer Willa Cather lived at no. 5 from 1913 until 1927 when that building was demolished during the construction of extensions to the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line; it became then nos. 1–7 where Patricia Highsmith lived with her family in 1938–39. ==References==