Legendary comedian, social critic and free speech advocate Lenny Bruce lived at this home until his death here from morphine overdose on August 3, 1966. He was 40 years old.

Bruce's act had increasing challenged the limits of free speech, and he had been arrested for obscenity and banned in several cities for performing his act.

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According to the real-life Baltimore Sun, Kavanaugh's in The Wire was based on the real-life cop bar Kavanaugh's that closed down some time in the late 90s. The Sidebar Tavern on Lexington was converted into Kavanaugh's for the show.

Some trivia: Detective Cole, who's honored with an Irish wake at the bar in season three, had been played by the show's co-creator Robert Colesberry who died in real life shortly after the filming of season two.

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In 1995, professional skater Brewce Martin purchased (with the help of fifty friends) 88 acres of land in the Appalachian hills of Miegs county, Ohio.

Since then, Skatopia has been an ongoing and expanding skatepark/curious social experiment that was featured as the final level in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and in the 2011 documentary Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy.

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After Jerry Seinfeld had a meeting at NBC and realized he had no specific ideas for a TV show, he met up with Larry David at this diner in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. During the meeting, the two decided to make a "show about nothing," and Seinfeld was born.

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The concrete park where Marlo frequently met with his crew in the last two seasons of The Wire is in East Baltimore (even though it's supposed to be West) at the end of Faith Ln near the corner of Chase St. and Bond St.

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