Gramercy Park Hotel

Gramercy Park Hotel
Location within Manhattan
General information
Location	2 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, United States
Coordinates	40°44′18.6″N 73°59′8.88″W / 40.738500°N 73.9858000°W / 40.738500; -73.9858000
Owner	RFR Holding LLC
Management	Manhattan Hospitality Advisors
Design and construction
Architect	Robert T. Lyons
Developer	Bing and Bing

Coordinates: 40°44′19″N 73°59′09″W / 40.7385°N 73.9858°W / 40.7385; -73.9858

Gramercy Park Hotel is a luxury hotel located at 2 Lexington Avenue, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, adjacent to the park of the same name. It is known for its rich history.

Gramercy Park Hotel was designed by Robert T. Lyons and built by the developer brothers Bing & Bing from 1924–1925, with a westward extension along Gramercy Park North – a continuation of East 21st Street – designed by the firm of Thompson & Churchill and built in 1929-1930. Both wings were designed in Renaissance Revival style. The hotel occupies the site of the former homes of the flamboyant architect Stanford White, political leader and defender of agnosticism Robert Ingersoll and lawyer-diarist George Templeton Strong.

Humphrey Bogart married his first wife Helen Menken at the hotel, and the Joseph P. Kennedy family, including a young John F. Kennedy, stayed on the second floor for several months, before the family moved to London so the elder Kennedy could take up his post as the American ambassador. During the Great Depression, Babe Ruth was a regular bar patron – an autographed picture of Ruth hung in the bar until it disappeared in the 1960s – and when James Cagney and his wife lived nearby at 34 Gramercy Park, they were frequent diners at the hotel. In the 1940s, Edmund Wilson lived in the hotel with novelist Mary McCarthy, and humorist S.J. Perelman maintained his residence there, dying in his room in 1979.