Communications

After an overnight concrete operation at 38 Gramercy Park, residents asked why work had continued so late. We brought their concerns to the developer’s senior management and shared the response.

Our 38 Gramercy Park updates bring construction notices, meetings and changes to pedestrian access together in one place.

Our reports show what has been done and where. Before-and-after photographs document Clean Streets’ work at individual lampposts and litter baskets; arborists’ observations follow the health of each street tree.

Alongside timely construction, streetscape, and safety dispatches, we research and publish the architectural, biographical, and natural history of Gramercy Park.

What began as historical notes in our newsletters has grown into a comprehensive neighborhood archive. It includes more than thirty perimeter histories in Buildings & Monuments (starting with how Mamie Fish changed the address at 19 Gramercy Park South without moving the front door), more than twenty biographies in The People of Gramercy, a ten-chapter History of Gramercy Park, and neighborhood guides to our 41 street trees, birds, and dogs.

Since 2014, we have systematically organized our neighborhood archives for long-term continuity, and in 2017 Columbia University Libraries selected our website for permanent preservation in its New York City Historic Sites web archive.

The newsletter archive can be searched by subject and year. Each entry links to the original letter.

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