8 West Thirteenth Street
Address in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, near Fifth Avenue. In Hayden Herrera’s Frida it is the two-room flat the Riveras move to after the Rockefeller Center firing, where their marriage frays.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frida | Hayden Herrera | setting | Open-house flat of mid-1933, where Diego strays and Frida, alone and ailing, longs for Mexico. |
Frida — Hayden Herrera (1983)
Source: Frida - A Biography of Frida Kahlo · Original · Readwise highlight
On June 3, one month after the beginning of the Rockefeller Center battle, Frida and Diego moved downtown to a two-room flat at 8 West Thirteenth Street so that Rivera could be nearer to his work.
- Role: setting
- In the book: In Chapter 11 the Riveras move here to be near Rivera’s new panels at the New Workers’ School and keep open house every evening, with neighbours Louise Nevelson and Marjorie Eaton. Diego begins spending time with Nevelson; Frida stays home with a numb foot, cooking puddings while he returns at dawn, and the two argue over going back to Mexico.
- Why it matters: It is where the strain in the marriage and Frida’s homesickness come to a head before the return to Mexico.