Gramercy Park

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Gramercy Park (sometimes misspelled as Grammercy) is a small, fenced-in private park in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York State. It was originally a swamp. Samuel B. Ruggles bought what was then farmland from James Duane in 1831 and transformed it into a private, ornamental park for the owners of the surrounding town houses to engage in passive recreation.

The landscaping, in many ways, matched the architecture of the townhouses on the square: after planting a row of privet shrubbery around the fences for privacy, landscape designer James Virtue laid out the park in the English Romantic style, which is to say the paths and bushes follow a logical geometry, while the plantings, many of which are still extant today, evoke a wildness that is, somehow, restrained.

In 1966, the park was designated as a historic district. The name Gramercy is almost certainly a corruption of the Dutch krom mesje, or little crooked knife, the name of a small brook that flowed along what is now 21st Street. The exterior and possibly interior was used as a filming location for a deleted scene of S1 of the USA Network series "White Collar". It also made an appearance in a season 15 episode of Law & Order.

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