Talk:Gramercy Park

message: Does nayone know where I can find a map of Gramercy park? Showing it's layout including paths, benches, statues, plants, etc.? Thanks! Ewlyahoocom 19:52, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of Gramercy Park 

message: It is claimed that this is one of 2 urban parks in NYC, or one of two in NYS including one in Troy, New York, within the Central Troy Historic District, under peer review here.  Let's be clear, all such claims are semi-bogus, and/or depend on your definition of what is a private urban park.
Certainly Gramercy Park is a salient urban, New York State private park example.  It is very well known because it is separated by roadway from all buildings, if i recall correctly, and it is fenced/gated, and only the surrounding 20 or so buildings' residents have keys, supposedly. However, there are certainly thousands of urban "parks" on the inside of NYC blocks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, etc., where multiple buildings' residents get access to a common area. It depends on how you define what is an urban park. Do you want to define it to include only blatant, semi-obnoxious, widely publicly-known situations like the Gramercy Park one, or the many situations that involve 10 or more buildings having access, or what. There is no commonly accepted definition of what is an urban private park, and there is no general way to determine how many there are. doncram (talk) 10:20, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claims about private urban parks 

message: Considering that parks are generally open to the public, isn't the notion of a "private park" just a garden they're trying to make seem like a whole big park just for an exclusive group? --I'ḏ♥One 22:06, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:48, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, you have it completely backwards.  "Parks" were originally private spaces, the landscaped grounds of estates, which were sometimes open to the public.  When true public open spaces began to be developed, they were made in conscious imitation of these private spaces (i.e. lawns, landscaping, gardens).  Now, we think of a "park" as being, by definition, a public space, but that's not how they started, so there's nothing oxymoronic about a "private park", it's merely a back-formation, like "acoustic guitar" (vs. electric) or "natural grass" (vs. artficial turf). Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:52, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting if that's true, contemporarily though Gramercy Park is what we would now call a garden. --I'ḏ♥One 21:58, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's true, but Gramercy Park is not a "garden", it's a park -- a small park, but a park nonetheless.  Have you ever been in it? Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:04, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should they stop calling it Gramercy ''Park'' ? 

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*Support as originator. Yworo (talk) 18:30, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps you forgot that you got nowhere with this last time?  Yworo, you have contributed absolutely nothing to this article, whereas I took it from about 9K to about 42K.  I know that you think that you should be allowed to intercede wherever and whenever you want to in your quest to stop down on an adversary, but in this instance your quest is futile, as the article is in good shape, and your "accesibility" issue is the concern not of Wikipedian editors, but the developers.  Please go to them with your concerns. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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message: *Support as originator. Yworo (talk) 18:30, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Responses

message: Perhaps you've forgotten that this has been discussed here before. You've been informed about the accessibility issues before. It has little to do with personal preference. Yworo (talk) 06:26, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps you forgot that you got nowhere with this last time?  Yworo, you have contributed absolutely nothing to this article, whereas I took it from about 9K to about 42K.  I know that you think that you should be allowed to intercede wherever and whenever you want to in your quest to stop down on an adversary, but in this instance your quest is futile, as the article is in good shape, and your "accesibility" issue is the concern not of Wikipedian editors, but the developers.  Please go to them with your concerns. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: How to enlarge images: Look at the top of the page. Click Preferences. Click the Appearances tab. In the second section, titled "Files", set the Thumbnail size to your preferred setting. Please don't force your preferences on everyone else. Use your settings. Thanks. Yworo (talk) 07:57, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: 2 people have removed the unnecessary space with hidden comment which did nothing to the reader.  See no reason to have it.Curb Chain (talk) 17:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it's unnecessary. Yworo (talk) 17:37, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unncessary Whitespace above footer-navbox 

message: The No longer open in May reference is now dead and should be replaced with an archive link at http://web.archive.org/web/20110725231044/http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2007/05/gramercy_park_n_1.php
: Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:58, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No longer open in May reference 

message: Yesterday I corrected the article to mention that Gramercy is one of two private parks in NYC.  Soon after, someone removed my reference and then someone else removed the now-unsourced statement.  Yay wikipedia.
Since others think my reference was not good enough, I would like to start a constructive discussion of what would be a better reference?
The claim has three premises:
# Sunnyside Gardens Park is a park.  I don't think this is under dispute.
# Sunnyside Gardens Park is in New York City.  I don't think this is under dispute: it's at 39th Ave and 49th St in Sunnyside, Queens.
# Sunnyside Gardens Park is private. Here is the list of membership rates and this map restricts who is eligible to join.
Thank you all, 67.247.21.108 (talk) 15:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: First, this article is about Gramercy Park not Sunnyside Gardens. Second, you are using a primary source, not comparing Sunnyside Gardens and Gramercy Park, but entirely about Sunnyside Gardens. While it is not disputed that Sunnyside Gardens is indeed private, a park, and in NYC, using a primary self-source not involving Gramercy Park isn't accepted, so that's why I removed it. Epicgenius (talk) 18:27, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

text: Also, your addition doesn't support the source. Would you care to use this source instead? It is less reliable than NY Times but confirms your fact: "Sunnyside Gardens Park is one of two private parks in New York City. Unlike the better-known Gramercy Park in Manhattan, which offers membership only to nearby residents, anyone can purchase a membership to Sunnyside Gardens, which was established in 1926." Epicgenius (talk) 18:30, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The claim about Sunnyside Gardens Park needs to be supported by a genuinely reliable source, not by a blog, per WP:SPS.  This is especially true since the counterclaim is supported by a citation from the New York Times.  I've removed the claim once again, and it should not be replaced unless it is supported by a truly reliable source. BMK (talk) 19:25, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh. I've found another NYT source that contradicts the existing one . Epicgenius (talk) 19:30, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Since your new Times citation is more recent, I'd go ahead and correct the article. BMK (talk) 19:33, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Just done. – Epicgenius (talk) 19:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Great. I've tweaked it a bit. BMK (talk) 19:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunnyside Gardens Park 

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replies: text: *The Wayback link had problems, so I replaced it with a ref from the WSJ. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:54, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
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message: Thanks for bringing it to my attention that my previous edit didn't make sense grammatically. Here's what I wanted to do:
* In the sentence "As a private park, Gramercy Park is held in common by the owners of the 39 surrounding structures, as it has been since December 31, 1831.", I wanted to change the wording "as it has been" to "as has been the case". Both are grammatically correct, it's just that the rest of this sentence is describing an arrangement, which the second phrasing deals with. I'm fine either way.
* I also wanted to update the sentence "In addition, the owners of the luxury condominium apartments at 57 Irving Place, which was completed in 2012, will have key access to the park, despite being located several blocks from the park, by becoming members of the Players Club" The building already opened. So I wanted to say "could obtain key access to the park by becoming members of the Players Club" so that the two connected ideas are in the same sentence.
If there's a better way to do this, I'd welcome any feedback. epicgenius (talk) 02:54, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Your second part is fine, but as for the first part, the original wording is better. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:34, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good. I've reverted the first change. epicgenius (talk) 12:08, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar in "Ownership and access to the park" 

message: Per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG:
Human geographic articles – for example settlements and administrative subdivisions – may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes.
In this case the first level subdivision is New York state, but the box also had flags for New York City and Manhattan.  Also that the i-box may have flags doesn't mean that it must have flags.  Further, I sincerely doubt whether the guideline quoted above was meant for neighborhoods.
So, lets take a survey: who wants the flags for the US and NY state (but not New York City and Manhattan) included in the infobox? Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:20, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags in infobox 

message: Under residents, it looks like Amos Pinchot was misidentified as Gov. of PA, which was actually his brother, Gifford. Klavery74 (talk) 01:42, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amos Pinchot 

message: Was reading this article today and got down to the massive "in popular culture section". Starting reading through it, got to this delight:
Cool stuff. As with most of the rest of the section, it's entirely unsourced. As with any such section, inclusion should be based on secondary source coverage, not merely that an editor saw/heard the subject mentioned in some book, tv show, comic strip, commercial, youtube video, song, etc. 
Posting here rather than removing those without secondary sources for now in case anyone feels strongly enough that they're willing to find said sources. No objections if someone else wants to just start removing, though... 
Secondary source coverage, btw, should be the minimum for inclusion. Might also be worth talking about the extent to which something features, e.g. comparing something set in the park ("1949: Henry Noble MacCracken's The Family on Gramercy Park is set in the neighborhood.") to, say, the name of the park existing in lyrics ("2000: Jazz fusion/rock duo Steely Dan mentioned the park in "Janie Runaway", from its album Two Against Nature in the lyrics "Down in Tampa the future looked desperate and dark / Now you're the wonder waif of Gramercy Park".") — Rhododendrites talk \\ 23:05, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture section 

message: I'm looking for input regarding the image used for the The Players. I am in favor of the image of the building taken by ajay_suresh. User:Beyond My Ken seems to disagree, and keeps replacing this image with an older, lower resolution, overexposed, and blurry image taken by himself. Would anyone like to share their thoughts on whether we should change the image to a higher resolution, more recent photograph that shows more of the building?
Filetime (talk) 20:05, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image choice