Keeping Out the (Gramercy) Riff Raff

Looks like the long waited for day this year has come to naught. Every first Saturday of May, the Gramercy Park Block Association sponsors what is known as “Gramercy Park Day”. This is one of only two times out of the year (the second being the Christmas concert) when those hallowed iron doors of this private park open to allow the throngs of neighborhood citizens inside. Otherwise, you will need to live around the perimeter of the park, and have a key.

GPD turns into a fair of sorts, with free food, clowns and various activities for young and old. Now that it's cancelled indefinitely? The huddled masses yearning to breathe free will have to continue to hang outside of the locked gates and peer inside, like they do 363 times out of the rest of the year.