In 1847 27 year old Poe came to New York City with his bride of 13. Here on Bleeker St. he was living when his first work was published, The Raven in the Evening Mirror. Poe then left the city for about a decade returning with his wife now in the last stages of tuberculosis. He then went to the country side of the Bronx for her health where she passed and Poe left New York never to return.