![]() ![]() As a park given to the prospective owners of the land surrounding it and held in trust for those who made their homes around it, Gramercy Park is unique in this City, and perhaps in this country, and represents the only neighborhood, with possibly one exception, which has remained comparatively unchanged for eighty years – the Park is one of the City's Landmarks. The laying out of Gramercy Park represents one of the earliest attempts in this country at 'City Planning'. Pine's 1921 book, The Story of Gramercy Park: Calling it "a Victorian gentleman who has refused to die", Charlotte Devree in The New York Times said that "There is nothing else quite like Gramercy Park in the country." When the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission created the Gramercy Park Historic District in 1966, they quoted from John B. The neighborhood, associated historic district, and park have generally received positive reviews. It is generally perceived to be a quiet and safe area. The neighborhood is mostly located within Manhattan Community District 6, with a small portion in Community District 5. The approximately 2-acre (0.8 ha) park, located in the Gramercy Park Historic District, is one of two private parks in New York City – the other is Sunnyside Gardens Park in Queens – as well as one of only three in the state only people residing around the park who pay an annual fee have a key, and the public is not generally allowed in – although the sidewalks of the streets around the park are a popular jogging, strolling, and dog-walking route. Gramercy Park ( / ˈ ɡ r æ m ər s i/) is the name of both a small, fenced-in private park, and the surrounding neighborhood that is also referred to as Gramercy, in Manhattan in New York City. Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival Oh yes, I forgot to mention: Speaking of Milo, did you hear Erap was asked to be Milo spokesperson? They asked him to make an acronym for MILO to show why he liked it so much. Interesting, isn’t it, how Scripture says of Adam, Seth, Enosh, Mahalalel, and Jared each, “he died.” But when it came to Enoch, it says, quite specifically, “Enoch walked with God then he was no more, because God took him away.” Not “he died” also, but rather, that Enoch walked so close with God, that God “took him away.”Īnd why was he taken away, rather than made to taste death? The writer of Hebrews tells us it was by faith: “And without faith it is impossible to please God.” We had an excellent sermon at afternoon service today, on Enoch and his walk with God. The inside of the trash bag was crawling with fruit flies and maggots. More worms appeared in my life as I was taking out the trash. Well, that certainly makes one’s day, doesn’t it? I spit out whatever was left in my mouth, tossed the unclean cup in the garbage, and ran back to my apartment to gargle generous mouthfuls of Astring-O-Sol.Īs for the one-fourth cup I swallowed, I think my hardy Filipino stomach, strengthened by cooked pig blood and raw fish, should be resilient enough to kill the little buggers. Only then did I see the tiny worms wriggling about in the chocolate foam. As I spit it out as well, I inspected the drink more closely. Next gulp, however, I was mildly annoyed to discover more of the stuff. Thinking it was just residual undissolved chocolate, I spit it out. (If you don’t know what Milo is, just replace every “Milo” from here on with “Ovaltine.”) As I took the first gulp, I noticed a pulpy fragment on my tongue. As I was coming home from church early this afternoon, I stopped at the village vending machine for a ten peso cup of Milo. Ladies and gentlemen, Raffy is in da house!!! And guess how his blog design scheme works… ) (Cue funky trance music.) ![]()
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