F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby House Hits the Market

By Dianna Dilworth on May. 27, 2015 - 9:15 AM

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s former home in Great Neck, the location that inspired his classic novel “The Great Gatsby,” is for sale. The seller is looking to fetch $3.9 for the Long Island home.

According to the real estate listing, Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda rented the home for two years in the early 1920s. Check it out: "Zelda called it “our nifty little Babbit-home at Great Neck,” and it became their base for parties and visits to even more luxurious homes in the vicinity, which eventually became the class-conscious West Egg and East Egg of “Gatsby.”"

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Super Heroes, super fans: Comics see local resurgence

Kevin Phelan, LoHud The Journal News12:59 p.m. EDT May 17, 2015
It wasn't long ago that comic book enthusiasts were largely perceived as basement-dwelling fanatics, confined to obscure hobby shops, annual conventions or dank arcades.

But now, comics — and comic fans — are finally getting the spotlight.

Nearly half of last year's highest grossing filmsworldwide were based on comic properties; "Avengers: Age of Ultron" alone made nearly $1 billion in its first weeks of release. And the 2014 New York Comic Convention drew more than 150,000 attendees to the Javitz Center over a four day period for an annual celebration of all things comics.

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