Gramercy Park, NYC, 2020.
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Gramercy Park, NYC, 2020.
More pixels than non-residents are entitled to see at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49594943761
#photography
Gramercy Park, which sits between Lexington Avenue and Irving Place between 20th and 21st Streets in Manhattan, is a locked private park. At the center of the park is a statute of Edwin Booth, a 19th century actor today best known for being the less murderous sibling of John Wilkes Booth.
Only residents of the surrounding buildings are issued keys. There are a lot of rules, including against photography, so this is as close as we get. If you have to ask, you don’t belong. Go away.
@mattblaze@federate.social
Walked by it every day on my way to school as a child. One day, I found a gate ajar and went in. Questions of morality aside, it was beautiful and its air rarified.
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.sociaI It’s beautiful, but in a very fussy, formal way. I’ve been in there a few times, and every time I was worried I’d accidentally break something, like I was surrounded by priceless, fragile antiques.