theparisreview:

“[H]is mind went back to the first few years after the war and to a crumbling block of Bethune Street, in that part of New York where the gentle western edge of the VIllage flakes off into silent waterfront warehouses, where the salt breeze of evening and the deep river horns of night enrich the air with a promise of voyages.”

Bethune Street in Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road, one pin on the New York Times Book Review’s Literary Map of New York.