Everything about Murray Hill Manhattan totally explained
Murray Hill is a neighborhood in the
New York City borough of
Manhattan that extends south from
42nd Street to meet the neighborhood of
Gramercy (or Rose Hill as the northern half of Gramercy is often referred to) at 29th Street. Blocks on
Lexington Avenue around 28th Street are sometimes known as “Curry Hill”, for the high concentration of
Indian restaurants. Some sources draw the southern border at 34th Street.
Its western border is at
Fifth Avenue and eastern border now extends beyond Lexington Avenue, to meet the distinct waterfront neighborhoods of
Kips Bay and
Tudor City at
Second Avenue.
The neighborhood is part of
Manhattan Community Board 6, which defines the area as extending from 34th Street north to 40th and from the
East River west to
Madison Avenue. Mrs. Robert Murray, the mother of Lindley and John, is said by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage to have saved American independence by detaining Lord Howe to dine with her, long enough to permit Israel Putnam to cross the lower end of Manhattan Island and join the forces of George Washington, before Howe was able to overtake him. This detention and the stories told by the fair friend saved 4,000 men, who otherwise would have been cut off and captured.
James Thacher, M.D., a gossipy surgeon with the
Continental Army, kept a journal that's one of the prime sources of information about
the military happenings of the times. In an entry for Sept. 20, Thacher tells the story as
follows:The British generals...repaired to the house of a Mr. Robert Murray, a Quaker and friend of our cause; Mrs. Murray treated them with cake and wine, and they were induced to tarry two hours or more, Governor Tryon frequently joking her about her American friends. By this happy incident general Putnam, by continuing his march, escaped...It has since become almost a common saying among our officers, that Mrs. Murray saved this
part of the American army.
Nineteenth century
During the nineteenth century, this neighborhood was "uptown" with the city ending with the reservoir at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street covering what today is the
New York Public Library and
Bryant Park. To the north was for the most part farmland. When
J. P. Morgan built his home on
Madison Avenue at 36th Street, which is today a part of the
The Morgan Library & Museum, it was considered a fashionable uptown address.
Madison Square Park, at this time considered a part of Murray Hill was bordered by the fashionable ladies' shops of the day on Fifth Avenue.
Twentieth century
For much of the twentieth century, the neighborhood was a quiet and rather formal place, with many well-off older residents. Since the late 1990s, however, many professional New Yorkers in their twenties and thirties have begun to move into the area. The raucous restaurant-and-bar scene along Third Avenue on the weekends particularly reflects this change.
Twenty-first century
Though housing in the neighborhood is slightly cheaper than in fashionable nearby parts of Manhattan, prices for apartments here rose a great deal during the boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s--as much as 500% in a decade.
The area includes
10 East 40th Street, an example of art deco architecture.
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