These Vintage Photos of Celebrities in Their New York City Apartments Will Take You Back in Time

Actress Audrey Hepburn arranges flowers in her New York apartment in 1954. Her film Sabrina would debut later that year.

Businesswoman Helen Gurley Brown—she served as editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and penned the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl in 1962—looks pretty in pink in her Central Park West home in 1979.

Baseball star Babe Ruth lived in multiple New York City apartments during his tenure as a New York Yankee and afterward. In 1935, the year he retired from baseball, he had a beer cooler inside his home, as well as plenty of baseball memorabilia.

Queens-born crooner Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known as Tony Bennett, lived with his first wife and eldest son in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The building was reportedly the Briar Oaks, a luxury co-op.

Writer James Baldwin was born and raised in Harlem, but lived all across New York City during his life. This photo was taken in 1963, the year he published The Fire Next Time.

Leading lady Shirley MacLaine has had a seven-decade career spanning acting, singing, dancing, and even writing. Here, she's pictured in her New York City apartment, circa 1979.

Before moving into an Upper East Side penthouse, the singer and actress lived on Barrow Street in the artsy Greenwich Village. She moved to New York from Hawaii, where she was born, in 1965; this photo was taken a decade later.

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, the first Black woman to have her play (A Raisin in the Sun) performed on Broadway, reclines in her Bleecker Street apartment. Today, the home is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

For some 50 years, actress Eileen Fulton (born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty) starred on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. Living in New York, she also took on theater roles throughout her career.

Actress Lillian Gish invites friend and fellow actress Helen Hayes to tea in her home in 1977. Gish lived in many of the city's iconic hotels before moving into her late mother's apartment in 1948.

Diahann Carroll was the first Black woman to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (for No Strings, in 1962). Here, she's interviewed by reporter Charles Justice in her Central Park West apartment.

Photographers swarmed actress Marilyn Monroe in her Sutton Place apartment in 1956, when her fiancé, playwright Arthur Miller, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee. She would marry Miller later that year.

Writer William S. Burroughs lived at 222 Bowery on Manhattan's Lower East Side in an apartment dubbed "The Bunker" (for obvious reasons, per this photograph). He's pictured with actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper (right) here.