Gramercy Park is the name of both a small, fenced-in private park, and the surrounding neighborhood, in Manhattan in New York City.
The view from the south gate of Gramercy Park, looking north from Gramercy Park South (East 20th Street), with the statue of Edwin Booth in the center. The Gramercy Park Hotel is visible in the left background (May 2007).
Gramercy Park Historic District
Flagstone near west gate to Gramercy Park bearing the words "Gramercy Park Founded By Samuel B. Ruggles 1831 Commemorated By This Tablet Imbedded in the Gramercy Farm By John Ruggles Strong 1875"
Some of the original townhouses surrounding the park; these at No. 1 through No. 4 Gramercy Park were built between 1844 and 1850.
Sunnyside Gardens is a planned residential community and historic district in the Sunnyside neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City. Built between 1924 and 1928 by the City Housing Corp
Gramercy Park
…The approximately 2-acre (0.8 ha) park, located in the Gramercy Park Historic District, is one of two private parks in New York City – the other is Sunnyside Gardens Park in Queens – as well as one of only three in the state; only people residing around the park who pay an annual fee have a key, and the public is not…
A shared interior garden court in 1924, soon after the first phase of construction
Henry Wright, c. 1920, co-planner of Sunnyside Gardens with Clarence Stein
The interior courtyard of the Phipps Garden Apartments, photographed in 1940 by Samuel Gottscho for the Library of Congress
Central garden at the Phipps Garden Apartments (1931), designed by Clarence Stein with Isadore Rosenfield of his office, and landscaped by Marjorie Sewell Cautley