The longtime resident of Manhattan’s Upper West Side entered ... suggested he team up with the Kentucky-born singer Mary Travers. Travers in turn proposed they include Paul Stookey.

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86 after battling bladder cancer.

According to The New York Times, Yarrow died in his Manhattan home on Tuesday ... Yarrow - along with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers - formed Peter, Paul & Mary in New York City in the early ...

Alongside Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, Yarrow formed and contributed ... according to The Washington Post and the New York Post. Born in Manhattan to parents who immigrated from the Ukraine ...

Born May 31, 1938, Yarrow was raised in Manhattan and attended Cornell ... soon recruited Travers and Stookey, and Peter, Paul and Mary was hatched. “I had a very strong sense of purpose ...

The singer died on Tuesday (January 7) at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ... Peter, Paul and Mary was formed in 1961 by Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, the latter ...

Peter Yarrow -- one third of the beloved folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, whose anthems epitomized the 1960s protest movement -- died Tuesday in New York. He was 86 years old.

Yarrow and his band mates Mary Travers and Noel "Paul" Stookey burst ... Born May 31, 1938 in Manhattan to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Yarrow studied painting before turning to singing and ...

According to The New York Times, Yarrow died from bladder cancer, which he was diagnosed with four years ago, at his home in Manhattan ... last surviving member. Mary Travers died in 2009 ...

Peter Yarrow, one-third of the hit-making 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and a Jewish activist who promoted ...