- Year built
- 1846
- Type
- Private single-family townhouse
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- Designated
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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architectural and historical profile of one of Gramercy's landmark houses, not a unit-by-unit sales dossier, and we do not publish invented apartment sales for a single-family home.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.
Architecture
The house is a four-story Greek Revival townhouse, distinguished above all by the ornate cast-iron veranda it shares with No. 3 — a delicate, two-story ironwork porch that is one of the defining images of Gramercy Park. The Greek Revival proportions read in the tall parlor-floor windows and generous principal rooms; as a single-family house, the interior retains the scale and flow of a grand private residence rather than the subdivided plan of a converted apartment building.
Because the house sits within the Gramercy Park Historic District, the veranda and facade are protected, and any visible exterior work is subject to Landmarks review — preservation that has kept this stretch of the park's west side intact.
Living at the house
As a single-family residence, 4 Gramercy Park West functions as a private home rather than a building with staff and shared services. Its defining domestic amenities are architectural and locational: the veranda, the park-facing rooms, the four floors of private space, and — the rarest of all — the Gramercy Park key that comes with a park-fronting house, granting access to Manhattan's only private park directly across the street.
What to know about 4 Gramercy Park West
This is a whole house, not an apartment. There are no units to buy individually. Acquiring 4 Gramercy Park West means buying the entire single-family townhouse — a different transaction in scale, financing, and diligence from an apartment purchase.
The architecture and the key are the value. The A.J. Davis attribution, the 1846 Greek Revival pedigree, the cast-iron veranda, and the Gramercy Park key are durable, location-fixed assets that define the house independent of market timing.
Landmarks protection is real. The veranda and facade are protected within the Gramercy Park Historic District; any visible exterior alteration requires LPC review.
Comparables are essentially the block itself. Whole-house values on the park's west side are set by the small set of park-fronting houses, not by a broad apartment market. Pricing is built from the house, the block, and the park frontage.
Comparable buildings and houses
If you are drawn to 4 Gramercy Park West, the most relevant park-fronting and Gramercy options include:
- 3 Gramercy Park West — its matched 1846 A.J. Davis–attributed neighbor, now a nine-unit park-fronting co-op (the apartment-by-apartment way into a house of this pedigree)
- 6 Gramercy Park West — park-fronting building on the same block
- 34 Gramercy Park East (The Gramercy) — NYC's oldest continuously operating co-op, with the park key
- 36 Gramercy Park East — prewar park-fronting co-op
- 18 Gramercy Park South — converted prewar park-fronting condominium
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00876-0013) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Gramercy — read The Roebling Team Guide to Gramercy.
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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