Humphrey Bogart's Childhood Home in New York

Humphrey Bogart was born in December 1899, and lived at 245 West 103rd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan until 1923.

He joined the US Navy in the spring of 1918. "At eighteen war was great stuff. Paris! French girls! Hot damn!" He worked as a shipper and a bond salesman, and joined the Naval Reserve. Contact with a boyhood friend got him an office job at World Films, where he tried but did not succeed at screen writing, directing, and production. He did some stage management, and first appeared on stage in 1921. He was in seventeen Broadway productions between 1922 and 1935.

He had an untitled part in the movie Life in 1920. He had his first credited role ten years later in Up the River in 1930.

He was in 75 feature films altogether.

His home is easy to find, just a half-block from the 103rd Street station of the #1 MTA line.

Also see his biography in Modern Drunkard magazine. It quotes him from 1950 — "If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we'd all loosen up and we wouldn't need the United Nations."

103rd Street is narrow, lined with tall buildings and trees. It's difficult to get good pictures of his home as it's in shadow so much of the time and you have to shoot it at an angle or very close! The first block of 103rd Street west of Broadway has been ceremonially renamed as "Humphrey Bogart Place".

Other New York Tourism

• The Ghostbusters locations
• My Encounter with NYPD
• Looking for the New York Home of the Last Ottoman Sultan
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Home in New York
• Hunter S Thompson's Residences in New York
• The American Black Chamber — The locations of the US cryptanalysis operation between WWI and WWII.
• Edgar Allan Poe's home in the Bronx

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