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Once part of Peter Stuyvesant’s bowery, was bought in 1831 by developer Samuel Ruggles. The surviving elegant row houses attest to the refined company that called Gramercy home. “Gramercy” is an anglicizing of the area’s Dutch name “Crom Messie” or “Krom Moerasje.” Sources differ whether this phrase meant crooked knife or crooked stream, referring to the brook that once ran east from this location.
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