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Stories around the Park

6 building profiles · 2 monuments · New profiles added weekly

61 Gramercy Park North · 277 Park Avenue South

A church for the changing city

Edith Wharton, A.A. and the continuing life of a neighborhood church.

19 Gramercy Park South

A house made for company

Mamie Fish’s parties and the Sonnenbergs’ thirty-seven-room home.

The Edwin Booth Statue

An eternal curtain call

A bronze Hamlet, a long-awaited unveiling and a century of care.

The restored Ruggles Fountain with water flowing into its basin.

The Ruggles Fountain

A portrait of the founder

A grandson’s gift, the Park’s earlier fountains and the return of water in 2026.

1 Lexington Avenue

An ocean crossed, a house transformed

An Atlantic cable, a collector’s mansion and a pioneering cooperative.

36 Gramercy Park East

Knights at the door, modern life upstairs

Gothic knights, modern apartments and restored terra cotta.

60 Gramercy Park North

A Mediterranean skyline, and the lives beneath it

Emery Roth’s rooftop fantasy and the people who lived beneath it.

The limestone entrance to 45 Gramercy Park North, with blue-lit lanterns, an urn and two carved figures above the doorway.

45 Gramercy Park North

From the Harpers to The Village Voice

The Harper family, a Titanic survivor and The Village Voice.

Photo credits for this page

31 Gramercy Park South. Exterior photograph via Compass.
9 Gramercy Park South. Tom Miller, 2020, Daytonian in Manhattan.
32 Gramercy Park South. Exterior photograph via CityRealty.
23 Gramercy Park South. Tom Miller, 2016, Daytonian in Manhattan.
2 Gramercy Park West. Tom Miller / Daytonian in Manhattan Source photograph.
45 Gramercy Park North doorway detail: adapted from a photograph by Beyond My Ken, 2010, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0; available under the same license.
Calvary Church, June 5, 2025: Ajay Suresh, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.
Edwin Booth statue in spring · Photograph: Sean Brady, GPBA photograph collection.
Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Garden layout: Starr Whitehouse. Building locations: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and Department of Finance maps.
19 Gramercy Park South · Original photograph: Steven Tucker, GPBA archive. View photograph
The Players at 16 Gramercy Park South · Original photograph supplied by GPBA. View photograph
One Lexington Avenue entrance · Image supplied for GPBA.
The National Arts Club at 15 Gramercy Park South. Image supplied by Tim Cohen. View supplied image.
36 Gramercy Park East entrance: Photograph, trvl-media.com.
18 Gramercy Park South, Park view: photograph via Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
Exterior: photograph by Beyond My Ken, April 16, 2010, via Wikimedia Commons and Village Preservation. CC BY-SA 4.0; available under the same license.
Sage House entrance: photograph supplied by Tim Cohen via Zillow. Photographer not identified in the supplied source.
Harper House exterior: SPAN Architecture project gallery. Photography credited jointly to Adrian Gaut and Peter Pelsinski.
24 Gramercy Park South entrance: Beyond My Ken, August 3, 2011, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Available under the same license.
44 Gramercy Park North, great room: © Gotham Photo Company / VHT Studios, 2016, listing photograph via 6sqft.
60 Gramercy Park North rooftop photograph: CityRealty; photographer not identified in the source.
7 Lexington Avenue: photograph published via Compass and reproduced by Daytonian in Manhattan.
7 Gramercy Park West: photograph supplied from Compass.
34 Gramercy Park East exterior: Tom Miller / Daytonian in Manhattan, published March 2019.
Gramercy Park Hotel exterior. Photograph by Gilbert McCarragher, via John Pawson.
10 Gramercy Park South entrance: photograph published by CityRealty. Original photographer not identified.
11 Gramercy Park South façade: photograph by Tom Miller, Daytonian in Manhattan, published 2021.
12 Gramercy Park South. Brown Harris Stevens photograph, via Zillow.
1 Gramercy Park West: John Bartelstone, via LOCI Architecture.
50 Gramercy Park North. Photograph by Gilbert McCarragher, via John Pawson.
Nos. 4 and 5 Gramercy Park West. Billy Wilson, September 22, 2022. Source; CC BY-NC 2.0.
48 Gramercy Park North. Exterior photograph via Trulia; photographer not identified.
18 Gramercy Park South, Park view: photograph via Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
22 Gramercy Park South. Tom Miller, June 20, 2016, via Daytonian in Manhattan.
39 Gramercy Park North. Exterior photograph from the Compass building gallery.
38 Gramercy Park. Photograph © Jack Kucy, via Henson Architecture.
39A Gramercy Park North. Exterior photograph published by CityRealty.

3 Gramercy Park West: Berenice Abbott, November 27, 1935, New York Public Library, image 482721, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States (WPA).