- Year built
- 1846
- Type
- Private single-family townhouse
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- Designated
4 Gramercy Park West is one of the two houses that define the single most photographed stretch of Gramercy: the matched 1846 Greek Revival pair on the park's west side, famous for the delicate two-story cast-iron verandas that wrap Nos. 3 and 4 and give the block its New Orleans–in–New York character. Built as a pair with its neighbor and attributed to Alexander Jackson Davis — the architect of Lyndhurst — the house is among the original residences of Samuel B. Ruggles's Gramercy Park development, the speculative scheme that created the private park and the genteel square around it. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report singles out Nos. 3 and 4 specifically, a measure of their architectural standing.
The most important fact about this address, for anyone researching it, is its nature: 4 Gramercy Park West is a private single-family townhouse. It is not a co-op, condominium, or apartment building, and there are no individual units to buy. The entire house — facade, veranda, all four floors, and the coveted Gramercy Park key — is owned and occupied as one residence. When such a house changes hands, it is a single whole-house transaction, not a unit sale; there is no per-room or per-square-foot apartment market here. This page is therefore an honest architectural and historical profile of one of Gramercy's landmark houses, not a unit-by-unit sales dossier, and we do not publish invented apartment sales for a single-family home.
That distinction is also part of what makes the house so coveted. To live at 4 Gramercy Park West is to own one of the celebrated A.J. Davis–attributed houses outright, with the cast-iron veranda at the door, four floors of Greek Revival interior, and a private key to the gated park directly across the street — a combination that exists in only a handful of houses anywhere in the city.
The Roebling Team at 4 Gramercy Park West
The Roebling Team at Compass works the Gramercy Park perimeter closely, including the small, historic, rarely traded houses on the park's west side. We publish this profile because a landmark single-family townhouse trades on factors generic commentary misses — the architecture, the veranda, the key, the scarcity, and the realities of a whole-house transaction on Gramercy Park.
If you are considering a purchase or sale of a Gramercy Park house, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point. We will bring the building-specific context this page provides plus the transactional specifics a whole-house deal on the park requires.
The neighborhood
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