Gramercy Park

Manhattan

Gramercy Park is built around the city's only private park, a locked square that sets the tone for the prewar blocks surrounding it. Housing is dominated by stately prewar co-ops and townhouses, with larger, more gracious layouts than most of the neighborhoods nearby. It is one of Manhattan's quietest and most established residential pockets.

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The Lay Of The Land

Gramercy Park centers on the gated green between 20th and 21st Streets, the last private park in the city, to which only the surrounding buildings hold keys. That square sets the character for the blocks around it: low-rise, tree-lined, and unusually still for Manhattan, with some of the best-preserved nineteenth-century architecture below 23rd Street. The neighborhood feels deliberately removed from the busier districts on every side.

The housing is largely prewar and gracious. Stately co-op buildings and brick townhouses ring the park, holding larger one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts with the high ceilings and formal rooms of their era. Rentals appear along the edges toward Third Avenue and the flatiron blocks, but the core skews to ownership and to apartments built with space in mind.

Transit sits a short walk away rather than underneath. The 6 runs under Park Avenue South at 23rd and 28th, the 4, 5, N, Q, R, and W cluster at Union Square just to the south, and the L adds a crosstown option, so the area is well served without a train on the park itself.

The square and its private quiet are the amenity, supplemented by the restaurants of Irving Place and the nearby flatiron blocks. Gramercy Park suits someone who wants prewar scale and a calm, established address near Union Square, and who values space and quiet over being on top of the nightlife.

Market Pulse

What renting in Gramercy Park looks like right now, from listings active on Sidewalk.

Median asking rent$6,850/moup $2,225 vs Oct 2026
Active listings12on Sidewalk today
Days on market19median, listings leaving in the last 90 days
Studio$3,925/mo median1 BR$5,572/mo median2 BR$11,000/mo median
Median asking rent by bedroom, Jun to NovEach month, the median of what listings on the market that month were asking, from their price history on Sidewalk.
$0$5k$10k$15k$20kJunJulAugSepOctNov
  • Studio$4,100/mo
  • 1 BR$5,995/mo
  • 2 BR$11,000/mo
  • 3+ BR$17,750/mo
  • Hollow: fewer than 5 listings that month

Asking rents among listings active on Sidewalk, updated November 15.

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