Since 1994 we have brought neighbors together to look after the blocks around the Park: the streets, the trees, the buildings and the people who live here.
Our professional Clean Team cares for the blocks year-round: sweeping sidewalks, removing graffiti, tending tree gardens, clearing drains and shoveling snow. The annual Neighborhood Refresh brings fresh paint and repairs to fences, lampposts and other street fixtures.
For more than three decades, we have worked to protect Gramercy’s architecture, streetscape and residential character. We advocate for responsible development, organize neighbors when preservation issues arise, monitor construction and hold developers to their commitments.
We care for the 41 City-owned street trees around the Park, each measured, mapped and brass-tagged with a record and care plan prepared with Bartlett Tree Experts. The inventory guides pruning, root care, treatment and new planting to protect the neighborhood’s living canopy.
As the designated Community Partner of the 13th Precinct’s Neighborhood Coordination Officers, we bring neighbors’ concerns directly to police, City agencies and elected officials. Together, we address safety, noise, construction and problems on our streets and sidewalks.
We help neighbors in need with meals, clothing, school supplies and household essentials. Through longstanding partners, volunteers and donors support families in shelters, veterans, people with disabilities, formerly homeless residents and homebound older neighbors.
We connect neighbors, local institutions and public officials, taking concerns to those responsible and following through on answers. Our newsletters keep the community informed with timely notices, local history, photographs and stories from around the Park.
In 1887, Mamie Fish gave this house a Gramercy Park address without moving its Irving Place entrance. Stanford White transformed the interiors, and her lively parties made the house a social destination.
Decades later, Benjamin and Hilda Sonnenberg joined it to the building next door, creating a thirty-seven-room home filled with art, books and guests. Two extraordinary households, one unmistakable red-brick landmark.
Step inside No. 19
Arlene Harrison on the people who will carry the Block Association's work forward.
Looking ahead
Neighbors and officers of the 13th Precinct gathered on September 11 to mark twenty-five years since the attacks.
Read the story
Neighbors photograph the Park from their windows and walks around the block.
View the photographsDiscover the stories behind our streets, keep up with neighborhood news, and get to know the people and projects shaping Gramercy.
