Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts

 The setting of the story takes place in a place called Greenwich Village, which is in New York. It is really in only one place in this short story, and it is inside Sue and Johnsy's house.

 Grove Court is well-noted for being the setting to O. Henry’s “The Last Leaf.”  In 1907, this short story was included in the collection The Trimmed Lamp. 

O. Henry begins his story: “In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called ‘places.’  These ‘places’ make strange angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or two….So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.” 
 In 1952 a film, O. Henry’s Full House, was made, depicting several of his short stories.  “The Last Leaf” was one story included and was filmed at Grove Court.