Kips Bay
Kips Bay is a neighborhood in the New York district of Manhattan in the United States.
Location
Since there are no official boundaries of the New York district, it is not easy to isolate this. Kips Bay is bordered to the south of East 23rd Street and on the north by East 34th Street. In the West Lexington Avenue and east of the East River forms the border. However, some see the western boundary significantly farther east ( at Second Avenue ) and north ( East 38th Street).
In the north of Kips Bay is the Murray Hill neighborhood, the West Midtown East or Rose Hill and Gramercy Park in the south as well as the Peter Cooper Village apartment complex. In the east, bordering the settlement Waterside Plaza UNIS (United Nations International School ) directly to Kips Bay.
Kips Bay belongs administratively to Manhattan Community Board 6
History
Kips Bay was named after the Dutch settler Jacobus Henderson Kip, whose farm north of 30th Street was on a bay of the East River, so that this bay got its name. The bay was filled in, but the name Kips Bay has held up.
Kip built a large house made of stones and bricks near the present-day intersection of Second Avenue and East 35th Street. Digits of iron, which were embedded in the masonry of the gable end of the house, proclaimed the Year. It stood from 1655 to 1851 and has been expanded several times. When it was finally torn down, it was the last remaining farm house of old New Amsterdam.
The garden of this property was famous and when George Washington was awarded the offshoot of a vinegar - Rose from this very garden during his first term, the claim was made that that was the first garden that was created in the colonies.
Where today the start of the East 33rd Street is found on September 15, 1776, the landing at Kips Bay place during the Battle of New York and New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War. It landed about 4,000 soldiers of the British army under General William Howe defeated and about 500 American militiamen under the command of Colonel William Douglas. The American troops withdrew immediately and the British occupied New York City soon after.
The last building from the late 18th or early 19th century, the neighborhood (203 East 29th Street) is a multi- converted white wooden house that is dated to the period 1790-1870. It is one of only a handful of wooden houses that are still standing in Manhattan. The house, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is privately owned and can not be visited.
In the field of Kips Bay dominate along First Avenue Building, New York University as the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU College of Dentistry, NYU School of Medicine, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center and teaching hospital the Manhattan VA Hospital.