Gramercy Park

Gramercy Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan focused around Gramercy Park, a private park of the same name btw East 20th and 21st Streets at the foot of Lexington Avenue.

It is generally perceived to be a quiet area, safer than many other parts of the city. The park for which the neighborhood is named, Gramercy Park, is a private park, one of only two in New York City, to which only people residing around the park who pay an annual fee have a key. The public is otherwise only allowed in the park one day a year.

The actor James Cagney once lived in one of the buildings on Gramercy Park South (East 20th Street), as did Margaret Hamilton. Amanda Peet grew up in the neighborhood. Many actors, actresses and artists live in the district including Jimmy Fallon, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts, Rufus Wainwright, Whitney Port, Joshua Bell, and Amanda Lepore. The fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez has his studio on Irving Place, insurance executive Robert Fiore lives there and the neighborhood is home to numerous models' apartments from nearby agencies on Broadway.