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.

Actress and model Cornelia Sharp poses during a 1975 photoshoot in her New York apartment. That year, she starred in the film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.

Born in New Orleans, jazz musician Louis Armstrong moved to New York in 1924. Here, he's pictured with his fourth wife and native New Yorker, Lucille, at their home in Corona, Queens, in 1970.

The actress and singer is photographed with lawyer and activist Bella Abzug, for whom Streisand was hosting a party in her New York City apartment. Streisand lived at the Ardsley on Central Park West for 30 years.

A photographer captures Anne Bancroft in her Greenwich Village apartment after she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1963, for her role in The Miracle Worker.

Beauty executive Estée Lauder poses in her New York townhouse in 1962. She was born in Corona, Queens, in 1906; in 1998 she was included on Time magazine's list of the 20th century's most influential business geniuses. She was the only woman on the list.