18 East 48th Street

Address in Midtown Manhattan of photographer Nickolas Muray’s shop and home. In Hayden Herrera’s Frida it is the place Frida recalls in her 1939 farewell letter to Muray, where their affair began.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Frida	Hayden Herrera	subject	Muray’s shop, remembered in Frida’s farewell letter as he marries someone else.

Frida — Hayden Herrera (1983)

Source: Frida - A Biography of Frida Kahlo · Original · Readwise highlight

Nevertheless you have to understand that no matter what happens to us in life, you will always be, for myself, the same Nick I met one morning in New York in 18 E. 48th St.

• Role: subject
• In the book: In Chapter 17 Frida writes to Muray on June 13, 1939, recalling breakfast at the Barbizon-Plaza and going on to his shop to take photographs. She asks him to send back a little cushion from the couch downstairs, to move her photograph from the fireplace, and not to take his new wife to Coney Island; the letter ends when she learns he has already married.
• Why it matters: It is where the Muray affair began, and the letter shows Frida mourning it and erasing herself from his home.