New York City’s Gramercy Park, located between…
December 1831 CE
New York City’s Gramercy Park, located between East 20th Street and East 21st Street and between Park Avenue South and Third Avenue, was originally a swamp.
The name Gramercy is almost certainly a corruption of the Dutch krom mesje, or "little crooked knife," the name of a small brook that flows along what is now 21st Street.
On December 31, 1831, Samuel B. Ruggles buys what is at this time farmland, part of Gramercy Farm, from James Duane, bestowing forty-two lots of property to the first Board of Trustees of the new park on condition that no commercial enterprise be permitted on the facing streets or in the park proper.
To this day, the park contains no amusements, swing sets, snack shops, or any other intrusions on its rusticity.
It is the oldest private park in the United States.
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