Obama and friends_10 Gracie Square
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Found at the edge of the East River between East 83rd and East 84th Streets, 10 Gracie Square is located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, specifically in the neighborhood of Yorkville. For most of its history, Yorkville was home to a primarily working class population of immigrants of Hungarian, Polish, Irish, and in particular, German descent. The German population came about partly due to the migration north after the General Slocum disaster in 1904, after which many German immigrants moved from the Lower East Side to Yorkville.
The neighborhood’s German heritage is celebrated with the annual Steuben Parade, part of a national German American celebration. Related to a darker part of German history, in the 1930s, Yorkville was home to the most notorious pro-Nazi organization in America at that time, the Fritz Kuhn’s German American Bund.
Today, Yorkville is an affluent residential neighborhood that has a reputation for being family friendly, and within its borders one will find Gracie Mansion, the home of the major of New York City.
This house is found within the famed Carl Schurz Park, a public area along the East River that offers locals almost 15 acres of recreational space. Yorkville has also been home to many prominent residents over the years, including Lou Gehrig, the Marx Brothers, James Cagney, Robert F. Wagner, and Macaulay Culkin. US President Barack Obama once lived in Yorkville while attending Columbia University.[1]
10 Gracie Mansion is close to a plethora of retail and food options, and therefore residents do not require a car to complete their daily errands. Additionally, this building is close to around 20 transit routes, thus ensuring access to greater New York, although it should be noted that 10 Gracie Square is not particularly close to any of New York City’s main subway lines.[2]
Trivia
Residents of this building include Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper, Steve Ross, Jean Stein, Beth Rudin deWoody, Alexander Woollcott, Eric Rudin, Andre Kostelanetz, Albert Gordon, Horace Havemeyer III, Richard Ekstract, Margaret Wise Brown, Blanche Oelrichs (known as Michael Strange), Joan Alexander, Arthur Stanton, and John Fairchild.
10 Gracie Square was the childhood home of Bruce Mosler, former President and CEO of Cushman & Wakefield. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, former First Lady of China, lived in this building until her death in 2003 at the age of 105.