Gramercy

Gramercy Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan focused around Gramercy Park, a private park of the same name between East 20th and 21st Streets at the foot of Lexington Avenue. "Gramercy" is an Anglicization of "Crommessie", itself derived from the Dutch Krom Mesje, or "Little Crooked Knife," the name of a small brook, Crommessie Vly that flowed in a deep gully along what is now 21st Street into the East River at 18th Street. Gramercy Park's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, First Avenue to the east, 23rd Street to the north, and Park Avenue South to the west. Recently, real estate agents and developers have expanded the use of the name to extend its northern boundary into the less prestigious...