Notable Residents
- Around the park
- #1 – Valentine Mott – an original resident, chief medical officer of the Union Army and founder of Bellevue Hospital and NYU Medical School
- #4 – James Harper – an original resident, 1847–1869, Mayor of New York from 1844–1845 and one of the founders of the Harper publishing firm; the two iron lamps outside #4 were placed there by the city in Harper's honor: the custom was that mayor's residences were so distinguished so that he would be available for nighttime emergencies
- #11 – Robert Henri – American painter
- #15 – Samuel J. Tilden – whose house, a National Historic Landmark, is now the National Arts Club
- #16 – Edwin Booth – famed Shakespearean actor, founded the Players Club
- #19 – Stuyvesant Fish – a leader of New York society (1887)
- #19 – Edward Sheldon – playwright
- #19 – William C. Bullitt – diplomat, journalist and novelist
- #24 – Richard Watson Gilder – the poet and editor died in this house
- #24 – Thomas Alva Edison – the inventor
- #26 – Booth Tarkington – novelist and dramatist
- #34 – James Cagney, Margaret Hamilton and Gregory Peck
- #36 – John Barrymore – star of stage and screen
- #36 – Daniel Chester French – sculptor responsible for the seated figure of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- #36 – Alfred Ringling – who founded the Ringling Brothers Circus
- #38 – John Steinbeck – American author
- #44 – Hart Crane – poet
- John Bigelow – lawyer and statesman
- Henry Herbert – English actor and producer
- Robert H. Ingersoll – businessman
- Maud Powell – female concert violinist and suffrage pioneer who cast her first ballot in 1919
- George Templeton Strong – lawyer and diarist, an original resident
- Stanford White – architect, lived where the Gramercy Park Hotel is now located
Julie Roberts owns a penthouse in the Gramercy Park Hotel, and Jimmy Fallon, Karl Lagerfeld, Uma Thurman and Rufus Wainwright also live around the park.
- Around the neighborhood
- Peter Cooper – industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, lived just north of the park at 9 Lexington Avenue.
- Joseph P. Day (1874-1944), real estate broker and developer and auctioneer
- Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace on 20th Street is a National Historic Site.
- Oscar Wilde lived on East 17th and Irving Place for a while, next to his interior designer Elsie de Wolfe and her partner, literary agent Elisabeth Marbury, said to be the most fashionable lesbian couple of Victorian New York.
Many actors, actresses and artists live in the district including Kate Hudson, Whitney Port, Joshua Bell, and Amanda Lepore. Amanda Peet grew up in the neighborhood. Winona Ryder used to live in Gramercy Park, but moved out in 1988. The fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez has his studio on Irving Place and the neighborhood is home to numerous models' apartments from nearby agencies on Broadway. NBC News anchor Ann Curry also lives in the neighborhood.
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