If so, maybe you can join the National Arts Club
and hang out in this beautiful building (facing
that exclusive, locked Gramercy Park). It's the
Tilden Mansion, built in the 1840s and now a
NYC Landmark and Nat'l Historic Landmark too.
The National Arts Club was founded in 1898 to
encourage and support all forms of the arts.
Former members include Alfred Stieglitz,
William Merritt Chase, and Cecilia Beaux (women
have been welcome here equally from the get-go);
current ones include Dennis Hopper, Frank McCourt,
and Alice Hoffman.
