Murray Hill (Manhattan)
Murray Hill is a neighborhood in Midtown in New York district of Manhattan.
In the south of Murray Hill have the block on Lexington Avenue in the area around 28th Street the nickname " Curry Hill " because there are very many Indian restaurants and appropriately specialized grocery stores here.
The Mercantile Building (10 East 40th Street) is a particular example of Art Deco architecture.
Location
As the boundaries are East 34th Street to the south, East 42nd Street and East 40th Street on the north, Madison Avenue and Third Avenue on the west and the East River to the east. Administratively, Murray Hill is part of Manhattan Community Board 6
In the south of Murray Hill is adjacent to Rose Hill and Kips Bay, in the north of Midtown East and to the west by Tenderloin and Koreatown.
History
18th century
The name Murray Hill derives from the name of the Murray family. They were Quakers and then commercialized as merchants mainly with goods from overseas. The family patriarch Robert Murray (1721-1786) was born in Pennsylvania in 1753 and moved to New York after he had briefly lived in North Carolina. He was able to quickly grasp as a businessman walking and made an impressive career.
About 1762 Murray leased land from the city for a farm and a large house, which he Inclenberg (or Belmont ) called, but this was generally called Murray Hill. It stood on a hill, which was demolished in the meantime. Is now located in its place Park Avenue and 36th Street. On the large square main building led by the Boston Post Road to an avenue that was lined with different types of trees. It was surrounded on three sides by porches, and their names were in New York " piazzas ", with a view of the East River on Kips Bay.
The Farmland covered an area of approximately 11.7 hectares. The terrain began from today's perspective, a few meters south of the 33rd Street and extending north to the middle of the block between 38th Street and 39th Street. At the southern end of the property was rather narrow but at the northern end it extended approximately from the Lexington Avenue to a point between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue.
Mary Lindley Murray has successfully stopped William Howe and his army, while George Washington retired from New York, after landing at Kips Bay by the British on 15 September 1776. Mrs. Murray asked this, the British officers to tea on their property and was able to stop the British troops for a long time - long enough for the American troops could safely withdraw. According to Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has prevented American independence characterized by had stopped Lord Howe long enough so that Israel Putnam was able to come with his soldiers on the Greenwich Road on the north end of the island to the units of George Washington before him could catch Howe. This delay has 4,000 men probably saved from death or captivity.
19th century
During the 19th century this district was an "uptown " neighborhood because here ended the City, where the New York Public Library and Bryant Park is today. North of farmland was located predominantly. During the winter of 1808, the Port of New York was closed during Jefferson's trade embargo. The unemployed dock workers were busy with a job creation measure: They wore 6-12 meters of soil from Murray Hill, to use it elsewhere to fill.
1833-1837 a tram tunnel was built to pass the New York and Harlem Railroad at Murray Hill. Meanwhile, the tunnel has been extended and is now used by car traffic.
During the mid-19th century the upper class lived temporarily in Murray Hill - durable and the upper middle class in the brownstone townhouses. So also the Brick Presbyterian Church followed their community and sold its ground at City Hall Park. It was built in 1857 closer to their community again - in Murray Hill ( Fifth Avenue and 37th Street ).
As JP Morgan in 1882 his estate was built on Madison Avenue/37th Street, in which a part of the Morgan Library & Museum is housed today, this area was still as elegant but a bit old-fashioned, because the rich now up to the level Central Park at Fifth Avenue palaces built. Instead, changes in fashion shops the neighborhood: So lined at Madison Square Park - which was then considered to be in Murray Hill - trendy women's fashion shops of Fifth Avenue.
20th century
For most of the 20th century, this neighborhood was a quiet and rather stiff area with many wealthy elderly residents. Since the late 1990s, however, many professionals between 25 and 40 began to move here. On weekends, this change is through the noisy restaurant and bar scene along Third Avenue, which is, strictly speaking, a little east of Murray Hill.
The Nordic Center in America, the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Union League Club of New York. - In Murray Hill is also the CUNY Graduate Center, Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, the Scandinavia House is
21st Century
Although property prices and rents in this neighborhood are slightly cheaper than in the nearby elegant parts of Manhattan, where prices rose for apartments during the housing boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s within ten years by about 500 percent.