In “Annabel’s Mother,” one of the short stories in Caitlin Macy’s 2009 short-story collection, Spoiled, socialite skirmishes between Bugaboo Brahmin moms and their nannies are set against the backdrop of a key-access-only private garden.

The private garden is a thinly veiled ode to Gramercy Park, near where Ms. Macy and her husband, Jeremy Barnum, lived before Read More