A Century On, Pooh Keeps a New York Address

The bear turns one hundred this year, and the place that claims him is not an English wood but the New York Public Library. Town & Country has traced the route by which a creature of such thoroughly British invention came to reside in Manhattan, and the account is worth the read before the next trip north. For those of us who divide the year between the island and the city, it is a reminder that some of the best things in New York are kept quietly, behind library doors, rather than announced from a marquee. A hundred years is a long time for any character to hold a public's affection, and longer still for one who never asked for more than a pot of honey. That he should mark the milestone as a New Yorker, of all things, feels exactly right.

With reporting from Town & Country.