Gramercy Park

The neighborhood lies among 18 th and 23 rd Streets between Third Avenue and Park Avenue South including Irving Place, nevertheless, most New York City residents refer to anything in the east teens and east 20s as Gramercy Park. During 1840s and 1850s when the neighborhood was just developing, the streets of Gramercy Park became filled with brick and brownstone multi-story low-rises and mansions, together with institutional buildings such as churches, that where often found in residential areas. Not surprisingly this neighborhood was considered as one of the most prestigious place of residence in pre-Civil War New York City.

In the first half of the 20 th century Gramercy Park was completely changed as the old low-rise buildings where replaced by the tall luxury apartment houses. Few of the large apartment houses used by single-family remained since that period. The neighborhood lost its social standing once the affluent families moved elsewhere.

Nowadays, a place, once considered as somewhere between downtown and uptown, is considered to be one of the most popular neighborhoods in Manhattan. Gramercy Park is reputed to be youth-oriented neighborhood with numerous chic restaurants, mega-stores and fashion photographer’s studios.

In the center of this area there is the only surviving “private residential park” in the NYC, and is surrounded by the marvelous townhouses and prewar buildings. The surrounding of these structures lets you feel what must have been the life in the 1800s. If you are searching for the less expensive Gramercy Park apartments rentals, simply look outside of these boundaries where city lives in 21 st century again, offering all types of dwellings from top floor luxury apartments to warehouses converted into lofts.