Christmas at Gramercy

I’m not a good nighttime photographer—I don’t have the equipment or expertise. But on a recent Christmas Eve, opportunity presented itself that I couldn’t pass up. Commoners aren’t permitted into Gramercy Park, a small parcel of a private park between E. 20th and 21st Sts. and 3rd Ave. and Park Ave. South. You must be a keyholder at any of the buildings surrounding the park to enter it (and some selected buildings in the area, as well; there are 400 keys in all, the same number of people on Mrs.