GNA's accomplishments are varied, many of which involve safety and quality of life. Some are tangible evidence of GNA's efforts. Examples include the following:

In the 1990s, GNA fostered the creation of the East 17th Street/Irving Place Historic District and the extension of the Gramercy Park Historic District. GNA also worked with other coalitions on the landmarking of Scheffel Hall, Union Square Savings Bank, Century Association Club House, Russell Sage Foundation and the Guardian Life Building. We are presently working to have the former Tammany Hall and the Guardian Life Annex designated as landmarks.

Over the past 12 years, GNA has organized the removal of all of the 40 modern cobrahead lampposts in the Gramercy Park historic district and their replacement with historic bishop's crook lampposts, at an aggregate cost of more than $100,000 - GNA raised all of the funds from donors throughout the Gramercy community. GNA completed that project in 2004, when the final 16 bishop's crook lampposts were installed.

GNA has worked with the following groups to improve our neighborhood:

• Politicians to sponsor a law to regulate the location of newspaper boxes, their use and repair.
• Department of Transportation (DOT) and police to improve traffic flow and signage in the neighborhood.
• GNA and The Flatiron Alliance worked together successfully discourage the Union Square BID from expanding into the Gramercy and Flatiron neighborhoods. The BID expansion would have imposed substantial additional assessments upon residential and business owners.

GNA has also funded the publication of two books on Gramercy history:

Gramercy: Its Architectural Surroundings, by Andrew Scott Dolkart
Gramercy Park: An Illustrated History of a New York Neighborhood, by Stephen Garmey (out of print)