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This trailblazer was responsible for some of the country’s most striking civic and university campus structures ...

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A sumptuous Gilded Age apartment at a prime Gramercy Park address ... Moreover, that price buys a prime piece of city history. The building at 34 Gramercy Park East claims the title of the oldest ...