The FBI was monitoring the newsroom, which was itself consumed with subterfuge and rumors over who among the journalists were counterrevolutionaries. While he worked, his wife, Mercedes, and infant son Rodrigo spent their days strolling Central Park. The thirty-three-year-old García Márquez had moved to the city a few months earlier to join Prensa Latina, the fledgling Cuban state news agency with offices at Rockefeller Center. They paid two hundred dollars a month for a room. In the summer of 1961, Gabriel García Márquez lived with his family in the Webster Hotel on West Forty-Fifth Street in New York City.
García Márquez in his home in Mexico in 2003.