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The Gramercy Park Litmus Test
by Elizabeth Beller 09/14/2009Neighborhood: Gramercy Park
I moved into Gramercy Park through sheer dumb luck. I didn’t discover Eden with my own bumpkin nose; I had help in the form a lanky, soft-spoken boy who was returning home after living as a piste-addicted ex-pat. I met him after some of my own colossally unproductive post-college years in Colorado. We had in [...]
They’re behaving like animals
by Kevin Nolan 06/01/2007Neighborhood: Gramercy Park
Madison Square Park confirms New York as civilized city. The park is a cultured green in Manhattan’s punishing grid: the Flatiron Building to its southwest, Broadway to the west, the century-old architecture, the clock tower to the east, buildings that house Credit Suisse First Boston and some of the globe’s most powerful corporations, America’s wealth, [...]
The Super Down the Block: He Reads
by Matt Pape 12/08/2006Neighborhood: Gramercy Park
Monday Night Football and the Greenwich Village Packer haunt, the Kettle of Fish, is heaving. There are orgasmic spurts of happiness as the Packers recover four interceptions in the first half. Seattle’s fair weather fans are distraught as the Pack dominates in the heavy snowfall. Brett wants this one. You can see the fire burning [...]
Aging of Aquarius
by Catherine Bergart 12/01/2006Neighborhood: Gramercy Park
The first time I was interviewed by a child was in the dotcom era. The spiky-haired, droopy-butted-jeans wearing creative director greeted me when I got off the elevator in the loft-like Chelsea space. “Great . . . Wow,” I said, feigning interest in the “hang out” room and basketball hoops he mumbled on about as [...]
side stage and backstage at the jicks may 15 Irving Plaza
by the man with the funny camera 05/17/2003Neighborhood: Gramercy Park
The pictures on this page are 360 panoramic images. If you do not have Quicktime (and you’ll know if there are no pictures visible even after a minute), Download it here. These are not static pictures. You can move them left and right, up and down. To move the image: Hold down mouse button and [...]
The Pigeon Bagel
by Rosalie Q. Shore 07/17/2002Neighborhood: Gramercy Park
I was sitting on a green bench outside of a cafe on Irving Place, on a hot day with a blaring sun. I was in one of those moods where I was thinking of everything bad that had ever happened to me. I noticed a huge bagel on the edge of the sidewalk. It was [...]
Love and Hate in an Elevator
by Anastasia M. Ashman 01/02/2001Neighborhood: Gramercy Park
It’s after five on Friday and I have pleasing, twenty-something plans for the evening. Judging from the look of Larry, a diminutive agent at the literary agency where I am director of operations, he does too. A tanned, old-school publishing guy, he’s a middle-aged romantic, known to still hold his handsome wife’s hand in public. [...]
