Carnegie Hill

Carnegie Hill is a neighborhood in the Upper East Side in New York City borough of Manhattan.

Location

Carnegie Hill extends from 86th Street to the south to 96th Street to the north, and from Fifth Avenue and Central Park in the west to Third Avenue to the east. From 96th Street to 98th Street Carnegie Hill extends from Fifth Avenue to Park Avenue. The neighborhood is part of Manhattan Community Board 8 and is considered one of the most prestigious residential areas of the Upper East Side. The northern part of the district was once regarded as the less elegant end of the East Side, but has since been upgraded by the local museums and restaurants. In addition, both Andrew Carnegie, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Margaret Rockefeller Strong and John Hay Whitney have built their homes north of 90th Street.

History

Carnegie Hill was named after the mansion of Andrew Carnegie, which this was built on Fifth Avenue and 91st Street in 1901. Today this building houses the Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design at the Smithsonian Institution. On the 91st Street is located directly opposite the Otto H. Kahn House, in the style of a Florentine palazzo, where the Convent of the Sacred Heart is housed. A number of other citizens homes in this area were redeveloped in schools such as the William Goadby and Florence Baker Loew House on 93rd Street by the Spence School or the Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt House by the Lycée Français.

The architecture of this district includes buildings with rental apartments along Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue, townhouses on the side streets, condominiums, cooperative housing and a handful of mansions, now home to the example, the Jewish Museum, the National Academy of Design or the Dalton School. From the 1950s until 1991, the National Audubon Society was housed in the Willard Straight house, a red brick townhouse in the Colonial Revival style at the 1130 Fifth Avenue. After their move to NoHo, the International Center of Photography moved in, until it relocated near the Bryant Park area of Midtown Manhattan. Since 2001, the building is used for private again.

There are a number of museums, which together form the " Museum Mile " on Fifth Avenue in Carnegie Hill. The first on the Museum Mile makes the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the 82nd Street still south of Carnegie Hill. Within the district are then the New Gallery at 86th Street, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on 88th Street, the National Academy Museum on 89th Street, the Cooper Hewitt Museum on 91st Street and the Jewish Museum at 92nd Street, located since 1947 in the former stately residence of Felix Warburg. In 1989, the modernist cultivation of the Jewish Museum was demolished in 1963 and instead built an extension, the appearance of which was adapted to the main building, whose facade quotes style elements of French Gothic. The conclusion of the " Museum Mile " form north of Carnegie Hill, the Museum of the City of New York at 103rd Street and finally the El Museo del Barrio at 104th Street. In addition, located on the " Museum Mile " and the Goethe Institute at 83rd Street and very close to the " Museum Mile " in the Town Hall 9 East 89th New York Road Runners - in a block, which sometimes " Fred Lebow Place " is called.

Monuments

For the first time the Carnegie Hill Historic District was reported on July 23, 1974 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and extended on 21 December 1993. It extends from 86th Street in the south to just north of 98th Street to the north. Its western boundary is the Central Park and its eastern boundary is partly the Madison Avenue and Lexington Avenue to the east part. The boundaries of the Carnegie Hill Historic District thus run after the official establishment of the monument protection similar to the limits of the district in the form of an irregular rectangle, with the northern border, which has traditionally been the 96th Street, slightly north to the area of the former Spanish Harlem has shifted.

There are efforts to increase this monument district again to protect other historic buildings - such as the House 179 East 93rd Street, where the Marx Brothers grew up. Among the supporters are the 93rd Street Beautification Association or the Carnegie Hill Neighbors, an organization that has inspired the creation of the Historic District and sought to preserve the character of the neighborhood. In its over 30 years of use, the Carnegie Hill Neighbors have had many confrontations to prevent construction projects that would have disturbed the mostly low buildings of the area, for example.