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Article: Gramercy Park. (book reviews)
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- National Forum
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- March 22, 1989
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CAROLE KLEIN. Gramercy Park.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1987.
Gramercy Park, a small green enclosure near New York's Twenty-First Street and Third Avenue, gives the surrounding neighborhood its name. Carole Klein's book is a one-hundred-year history of this area from the time of its laying out in 1830. The book is divided into four periods--1822-1860, 1860-1900, 1900-1920, 1920-1939--and broken into fourteen subdivisions on such topics as "The Birth of Gramercy Park," "War and the City," "The New Realism in Art," and "Parties Uptown and Downtown." She focuses sometimes on people associated with the Park, sometimes on events contemporary with their ...