Lenox Hill
Lenox Hill is a neighborhood in New York City's Upper East Side in the Manhattan borough.
Location
Lenox Hill is the southernmost part of the Upper East Side - just north of Midtown Manhattan. In general, the 60th Street, the southern and the 77th Street as the northern border of the district. According to The Encyclopedia of New York 's Fifth Avenue, the western boundary and Lexington Avenue, the eastern, the eastern border is disputed, as the possessions of Robert Lenox and his heir James Lenox Avenue were never east of the Forth.
History
The district is named after the farm owner Robert Lenox ( 1759-1839 ). He was a Scottish merchant who over 12 acres, the five -mile stone ( "five -mile stone" ) had, which extended from Fifth Avenue to Forth Avenue and from 68th Street to 74th Street.
For the then very large sum of $ 6,420 Robert Lenox acquired the first part of this land in 1818 at an auction at the Tontine Coffee House, where the loaded mortgage land of Archibald Gracie was auctioned. Since he was the executor of Gracie's estate, he did so in order to preserve the heirs of Gracie prior to termination of the mortgage. A few months later, he acquired three additional lots, which he expanded his property in north to 74th Street. Thereafter, these parcels were designated as " Lenox Farm".
The Five Mile Post farm, the farm house of Lenox Farm, stood on a hill, between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue and 70th Street and 71st Street, which of the hill ( English: " hill" ) must have been of this land should ever " Lenox Hill " have been called. The railway line "right -of -way" of the New York and Harlem Railroad led past the eastern border of the property.
The children of Robert Lenox James Lenox and Henrietta A. Lenox did not grow on the Five Mile Post on farm, but in Lower Manhattan in the corner house 53 Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. They remained unmarried. James Lenox later shared on the majority of the farmland in building plots and sold them during the 1860s and 1870s. He also donated land for the Union Theological Seminary along the railway line "right -of -way" between the 69th Street and 70th Street. Directly north of it, he donated an entire block between Madison Avenue and Forth Avenue and 70th Street and 71st Street for the Presbyterian Hospital. He built the Lenox Library along an entire block font on Fifth Avenue. Here, the Frick Collection is housed.
After the First World War, there was anti-German sentiment in New York City, was renamed in July 1918, the German Hospital in Lenox Hill Hospital. This was also the impetus to call this area Lenox Hill - most likely as an analogy to Murray Hill, which is a " in-district " was back then. The hospital itself is not on the territory of the former Lenox Farm: It is located between the 76th and 77th Street and Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue.