Jon Campbell

More twists lie ahead.

“There’s always nicknames that fly around, they’ve floated around since the 1980s, 1970s."

'The people who have keys to Gramercy Park are hated by all the rest of us because they have a private park. Fuck ‘em you know? Why should they have such a thing these days?'

Late on the night of December 2nd, 1934, a 22-year-old Indiana college student named William Pattison drove his car through the gates of Gramercy Park.

An investigation by Gothamist and WNYC suggests that the sweetheart deal that locks most New Yorkers out of Gramercy Park should be revisited.