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GRAMERCY PARK
Extending from 24th Street to Union Square and from Fifth to First Avenues as the city's oldest residential neighborhood - there's no doubt much of it is a page out of Jack Finney's Time and Again.
Home to some of world most influential - Edith Wharton, Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene O'Neill are only just some that resided here.
Considered the most well preserved historic downtown district - in reality, the neighborhood is a rich urban mixture of townhouses, apartments and commercial buildings that live happily alongside a very famous private garden.
Nowadays a popular place for young professionals, designers and artists, it offers 19th century townhouses, luxury high-rise living - and renovated warehouse loft apartments for the more adventurous.
While it's true that only those who live right on the perimeter of the Park itself have access to it, locals are content just to be part of this community.
The last private park in New York city, wonderful restaurants far too numerous to mention (like Craft on East 19th and Gramercy Tavern on East 20th), the right-out-of-the streets-of-Paris greenmarket at Union Square side by side with a typical blitz of dry cleaners, coffee shops and Duane Reades.
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