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97-603: Astor Place is a street in NoHo / East Village , in the lower part of the New York City borough of Manhattan . It is divided into two sections: One segment runs from Broadway in the west (just below East 8th Street ) to Lafayette Street , and the other runs from Fourth to Third Avenues . The street encompasses two plazas at the intersection with Cooper Square, Lafayette Street, Fourth Avenue, and Eighth Street – Alamo Plaza and Astor Place Station Plaza . "Astor Place"

194-795: A Loyalist general in the Revolutionary War, jointly ran Willett & Murray with Susannah's uncle John Murray. Willett bought the farm from the New York City government in 1799 for 907 pounds. His business shuttered the next year and, as part of the bankruptcy settlement, John Murray bought the farm from the Willetts. John Murray and his wife Hannah Lindley had four children. After John Murray's death in 1808, Hannah Lindley and their children moved into Inclenberg. Two of their children, Mary and Hannah, did not marry and instead lived in apartments that were specifically created for them at

291-456: A Scottish-born merchant, whose family had a large estate in what is now the modern-day neighborhood. The modern neighborhood was once an abrupt, steep-sided mound of glacial till typical of Manhattan Island 's still-unmodified post-glacial terrain. It was described by one author as a "hill of the rudest and most heterogeneous mixture of stone and gravel and boulders, cemented together into a matrix of almost impenetrable density existed, crowning

388-568: A giant Rubik's Cube . The members of the organization were careful with the prank, as they didn't want to be destructive. The cube stayed up for about 24 hours before city maintenance removed the painted cardboard panels from the sculpture. On March 10, 2005, the Parks Department removed the Cube for maintenance. The original artist and crew replaced a missing bolt, and made a few other minor repairs. A makeshift replica of PVC tubes named

485-540: A higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018 . College-educated residents comprise 82% of those age 25 and older, while 15% are high school graduates or have some college education, and 3% have less than a high school education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. The percentage of Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during

582-732: A historically notable private institution, the Union League Club of New York . Just outside Murray Hill's western border is the Art Deco skyscraper at 10 East 40th Street . The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated several buildings in Murray Hill as landmarks, including 2 Park Avenue , 275 Madison Avenue , the Daily News Building , the Madison Belmont Building , and

679-549: A home for "fallen women". (21 Bleecker Street's entrance now bears the lettering in the flooring.) The block also houses the Planned Parenthood headquarters at the Margaret Sanger Square, adjacent to a Catholic event center. 40°43′44″N 73°59′35″W  /  40.729°N 73.993°W  / 40.729; -73.993 Murray Hill, Manhattan Murray Hill is a neighborhood on

776-509: A large hall. The mansion was at approximately the present location of Park Avenue and 37th Street. Near the house were a barn, kitchen, and stable. The Murray farm was bounded to the north by Thomas Bridgen Atwood's farm, which was on the western side of the Eastern Post Road between modern-day 38th and 41st Streets, and to the east by Jacobus Kip 's farm, along the eastern side of the same road from 28th to 39th Street extending to

873-503: A new pedestrian plaza created on Cooper Square between East 5th and 6th Streets. The traffic pattern of the area changed significantly, with Astor Place from Lafayette Street to Third Avenue becoming East Eighth Street eastbound, and the formerly bidirectional Cooper Square bus lane becoming northbound-only. The $ 16 million project was first proposed in 2008, then abandoned and re-proposed in 2011. Construction started in September 2013, and

970-768: A one-bedroom loft could rent at an average monthly rate of US$ 4,000. Some individual landmarks in the NoHo Historic District include the Astor Library , the Bouwerie Lane Theater , the Bayard-Condict Building , the De Vinne Press Building . Two New York City Subway stations, Astor Place and Bleecker Street , are also landmarked. The only survivor of the 19th-century upper class era is half of

1067-621: A prosperous merchant, purchasing three vessels and obtaining an ownership stake in another. Murray had a townhouse on Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan , which was close to his wharf on the East River at Wall Street , as well as to his retail store. By the late 1750s, Murray was relatively successful and wished to build his own mansion. Before 1762, Murray had leased some land in a sparsely populated portion of Manhattan island for use as for his large house and farm. Murray's house

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1164-420: A site at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport the following year, in an act that New York City mayor Ed Koch called a "betrayal" of New York City. For more than 60 years, the offices of William F. Buckley Jr. 's journal of opinion, National Review , were located in the neighborhood, at 150 East 35th Street and then at 215 Lexington Avenue. In 2017 the magazine relocated to West 44th Street. Due to

1261-489: Is 0.0102 milligrams per cubic metre (1.02 × 10  oz/cu ft), more than the city average. Twelve percent of Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town residents are smokers , which is less than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town, 10% of residents are obese , 5% are diabetic , and 18% have high blood pressure —compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. In addition, 7% of children are obese, compared to

1358-646: Is 42% in Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018 , Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying . The neighborhood is home to St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral , Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University , the Morgan Library & Museum , Scandinavia House–The Nordic Center in America , The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and

1455-429: Is also known as Curry Hill and Little India . This section of Murray Hill was formerly also known as Little Armenia . The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has described Murray Hill's boundaries as roughly 34th Street on the south, 40th Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and Third Avenue on the east. The city's Planning Department has described the boundaries as roughly 34th Street on

1552-618: Is also sometimes used for the neighborhood around the street. It was named for John Jacob Astor (at one time the richest person in the United States), soon after his death in 1848. A $ 21 million reconstruction to implement a redesign of Astor Place began in 2013 and was completed in 2016. The American Guide Series describes the Astor Place district as running from Houston Street north to 14th Street, between Broadway and Third Avenue. The Encyclopedia of New York City defines

1649-649: Is attributed to the precincts' high number of property crimes. As of 2018 , with a non-fatal assault rate of 35 per 100,000 people, Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 180 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole. The 17th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 80.7% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 0 murders, 13 rapes, 63 robberies, 91 felony assaults, 80 burglaries, 748 grand larcenies, and 26 grand larcenies auto in 2018. Murray Hill

1746-542: Is bounded by Mercer Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, 9th Street to the north, and Houston Street to the south. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has declared most of the 125-building area a historic district, divided into the NoHo Historic District and the NoHo East Historic District, created in 2003. In 1748, Jacob Sperry, a physician from Switzerland , created

1843-468: Is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (45%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 22% are between 45 and 64, and 13% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 7% and 12% respectively. In 2017, the median household income in Community District 6 was $ 112,383, though

1940-695: Is included in the NRHP's Murray Hill historic district. For much of the 20th century, Murray Hill was a quiet and rather formal place, with many wealthy older residents. In 1905, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt lived close by Franklin's mother Sara Roosevelt in the Murray Hill neighborhood. Since the late 1990s, many young people in their twenties have moved to the area from the suburbs of New York. As reported in The New York Times in 2011, "...recent college graduates can find themselves among fellow alumni, meet up for familiar drinking rituals and flock to

2037-670: Is located in Stuyvesant Town . Murray Hill is located in two primary ZIP Codes . The area south of 40th Street is located in 10016, while the area north of 40th Street is in 10017. There are also three smaller ZIP Codes for individual buildings: 10158 (605 Third Avenue), 10165 ( One Grand Central Place ), and 10168 ( Chanin Building ). The United States Postal Service operates three post offices in Murray Hill: Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town generally have

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2134-465: Is now Third Avenue was opened between 1815 and 1821. John Murray's children confirmed title to the land in 1816, and Mary and Hannah Murray were given the responsibility of renting out the Murray farm. In 1818, they ran advertisements for the farm, which was only 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the developed portions of Manhattan. A fire destroyed Inclenberg in 1835 and the lots were split up. The route of

2231-563: Is served by the New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Company 21 fire station, located at 238 East 40th Street. As of 2018 , preterm births and births to teenage mothers in Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town are lower than the city average. In Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town, there were 78 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 1.5 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide), though

2328-582: Is the New York Public Library Main Branch and Bryant Park . To the north was for the most part farmland. A stream called t'Oude Wrack (Dutch for "Old Wreck") ran across the area, emptying into Sunfish Pond, located at the present-day Park Avenue South and 31st Street in Kips Bay . The stream originated at what is now Broadway and 44th Street in the middle of Times Square . A glue factory polluted Sunfish Pond heavily during

2425-743: The Astor , Vanderbilt , and Delano families. Editor and poet William Cullen Bryant , and inventor and entrepreneur Isaac Singer lived in the neighborhood in the 1880s. By the turn of the century, however, warehouses and manufacturing firms moved in, the elite moved to places such as Murray Hill , and the area fell into disrepair. The neighborhood was revitalized beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. The New York City Department of Transportation 's "Reconstruction of Astor Place and Cooper Square" plan called for some changes to be made to Astor Place beginning in 2013. The street would end at Lafayette Street rather than continuing east to Third Avenue . This allowed

2522-546: The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and Historic Districts Council , and together, they form a contiguous area of landmarked buildings over 21 city blocks. The 2008 extension is bounded on the west by Lafayette Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the north by East Fourth Street and on the south by Bond Street. It includes 56 buildings and a mid-block parking lot to the south and east of

2619-593: The Jello Cube in honor of Peter Cooper was placed in its stead. As of November 2005, the Cube returned with a fresh coat of black paint, still able to spin. Other nearby points of interest include: The IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway has a station named Astor Place at the intersection of Lafayette & East 8th Streets, which is served by the 4 , ​ 6 , and <6> trains. No bus route serves

2716-570: The Kips Bay Brewing Company , and Con Edison's Waterside power plant . In the 1980s some of these blocks were rezoned to allow for residential development, which led to the construction of the Rivergate , Manhattan Place , and Horizon high-rise apartment buildings. Con Edison's lots were placed for sale in 1999. The billionaire developer Sheldon Solow purchased the blocks between 38th and 41st Streets in 2000 and demolished

2813-529: The New York Shakespeare Festival ) is located across the street in the former Astor Library building. The trapezium-shaped traffic island in the center of Astor Place is a popular meeting place and center of much skateboarding activity. The island is most notably home to Tony Rosenthal's sculpture " Alamo ", known popularly as "The Cube", which consists of a large, black metal cube mounted on one corner. Installed in 1967 as part of

2910-723: The Socony–Mobil Building . The Whitney Museum of American Art opened a branch gallery at the Philip Morris headquarters opposite Grand Central Terminal in April 1983; it closed in January 2008, after 25 years. In addition, for around fifty years, the neighborhood had been home to National Review , the conservative journal of opinion founded by William F. Buckley, Jr. , most of that time at 150 East 35th Street and 215 Lexington Avenue at 33rd Street. 150 East 35th Street

3007-463: The Vanderbilt family , in addition to authors Washington Irving , Charles Dickens , and William Makepeace Thackeray ; U.S. President John Tyler was married in these houses. In the summer of 1838, the garden's owners opened a saloon for the staging of vaudeville comic operas. Later theatre managers expanded the offerings to appeal to a wider range of patrons. By 1850, the rowdier crowds of

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3104-476: The east side of Manhattan in New York City . Murray Hill is generally bordered to the east by the East River or Kips Bay and to the west by Midtown Manhattan , though the exact boundaries are disputed. Murray Hill is situated on a steep glacial hill that peaked between Lexington Avenue and Broadway . It was named after Robert Murray , the head of the Murray family, a mercantile family that settled in

3201-715: The "Sculpture and the Environment" organized by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs , the Alamo Cube has since become a popular meeting place in the East Village . The sculpture can be spun on its vertical axis by one person with some effort, and two or more people without trouble. In 2003, the cube was the subject of a prank played by the ATF squad (All Too Flat) in which it was turned into

3298-690: The 1820s; it was infilled in 1839 after most of its water was used to extinguish a fire at the New York House of Refuge . According to the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association (formerly the Murray Hill Committee), the neighborhood encompasses the 10016 zip code—bounded by 27th Street to the south, 40th Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East River to the east. By this definition, Murray Hill overlaps with Rose Hill , which

3395-520: The 1890s, in the Greek Revival architectural style in homage to the mansions that formerly occupied the area. The demolition of upper-class buildings continued, and by 1902, the southernmost five mansions on Colonnade Row were demolished for the Wanamaker's Department Store annex. Most of the mansions on Bond Street, though, lasted through the 1930s. Not all of NoHo was built for and by

3492-434: The 20th century, warehouses and manufacturing firms moved in; consequently the elite moved to places such as Murray Hill , and the area fell into disrepair. The neighborhood became mainly a manufacturing district by the 1880s, especially around the relatively wide Bond Street. Terra cotta and brick " loft " buildings were among the new buildings being constructed in this time, and construction of such buildings continued into

3589-682: The American shores". Early in 1773, and again in 1774, advertisements for the Inclenberg estate were circulated, positioning the house and farm as a summer mansion. During the American Revolutionary War , Mary Lindley Murray is credited with delaying William Howe and his army during General Washington's retreat from New York following the British landing at Kip's Bay , September 15, 1776. The most common version of

3686-479: The Bowery had mostly scared off the upper classes, and fewer people came to the Vauxhall Gardens. The theater buildings were demolished in 1855, and the gardens closed for the last time in 1859. Even so, wealthy New Yorkers lived here through the end of the 19th century. Editor and poet William Cullen Bryant and inventor and entrepreneur Isaac Singer lived in the neighborhood in the 1880s. By

3783-669: The British Army occupied New York, British soldiers often visited Inclenberg. After the end of British occupation, the Murray family was associated with unpatriotic acts during the war, and one son, Lindley Murray , moved to England. Robert Murray died in 1786 and bequeathed different portions of his estate to his five children. His daughter Susannah was bequeathed the farm, along with some lots in Gold Street in Lower Manhattan. Her husband Gilbert Colden Willett, once

3880-707: The Catholic Sheen Center, immediately adjacent to it. Bleecker Street was the home of Sanger's original Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, operated from another building from 1930 to 1973. Bleecker Street now features Margaret Sanger Square, at the intersection with Mott Street . After World War II , manufacturing companies moved out of New York City and to the suburbs. By the 1950s, these spaces were rented to artists and small theatre companies. The artists had to go through extensive litigation to live and work in these spaces. By 1960, there were more artist residents than businesses in these loft spaces. Among

3977-915: The East Coast and began operations in New York City in 1930, it moved its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to the floors above its main hub at 331 East 38th Street in Murray Hill. The headquarters remained at the site until 1964 when the company moved into a new facility in Hell's Kitchen . In 1959, the United States Olympic Committee purchased 57 Park Avenue—the former Adelaide L. T. Douglas House —to serve as its headquarters, which it called Olympic House. The committee moved its headquarters from New York City to Colorado Springs in 1978. American Airlines opened its headquarters at 633 Third Avenue in 1975. Three years later, American announced that it would move its headquarters to

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4074-583: The East River. The site overlooked the East River and Kips Bay . Like the other grand projects created by distinguished residents upon Manhattan's prominent rises of ground, the Murray house was used for purposes other than farming. According to historians Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace , while some of these farms were for-profit enterprises, "their primary purpose—besides providing refuge from epidemics—was to serve as theaters of refinement". One descendant wrote that Robert Murray "entertained at various times almost every foreigner of distinction who came to

4171-515: The Eastern Post Road from 23rd to 31st Street was closed in April 1844, and the section of the road from 31st to 42nd Street was closed in June 1848. In 1833 the railroad cut was begun, to carry the New York and Harlem Rail Road through Murray Hill; the route under the most prominent obstacle in its right-of-way was opened on May 1, 1834. The locomotives, which had met the horse-cars that ran through

4268-560: The Merchant's House. The LPC approved it over the objections of engineers and architects. In the 2000s and 2010s, NoHo and its southern neighbor, SoHo , has experienced rapid gentrification . Since NoHo is primarily made up of loft apartments, this in turn makes it one of the most expensive and desirable neighborhoods in Manhattan. Its small size and central location also contributes to a high demand, again keeping prices high. In 2014,

4365-794: The Murray Hill Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, with 88 contributing and 12 non-contributing properties. The NRHP district was extended in 2013 with another 150 contributing and 21 non-contributing buildings. The NRHP district's expansion includes several structures built in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as rowhouse with facade modifications. The expanded NRHP district includes about 16 blocks bounded by Madison Avenue, 34th Street, Third Avenue, and 40th Street. The defense contractor L3 Technologies has its headquarters in Murray Hill. Sumitomo Corporation operates its New York Office,

4462-471: The New York City government classifies Murray Hill as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called Murray Hill-Kips Bay. Based on data from the 2010 United States Census , the population of Murray Hill-Kips Bay was 50,742, a change of 2,323 (4.6%) from the 48,419 counted in 2000 . Covering an area of 334.93 acres (135.54 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 151.5 inhabitants per acre (97,000/sq mi; 37,400/km ). The racial makeup of

4559-466: The area in the 18th century. The Murray farm was formed before 1762 and existed until at least the early 19th century. Through the 19th century, Murray Hill was relatively isolated from the rest of New York City, which at the time was centered in Lower Manhattan . Murray Hill became an upscale neighborhood during the 20th century. Today, it contains several cultural institutions such as the Morgan Library & Museum , as well as missions and consulates to

4656-563: The area now comprising NoHo, SoHo, and eastern Tribeca was known as the warehouse district . The art movement of the 1970s and the preservation movements of the 1990s and 2000s also helped to revitalize the area. The area was declared an official city historic district by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1999. From its designation report: The NoHo Historic District, which comprises approximately 125 buildings, represents

4753-564: The association with the riot and was closed down shortly afterwards. The interior was demolished, and the building was turned over to the use of the New York Mercantile Library . From 1852 until 1936, Astor Place was the location of Bible House, headquarters of the American Bible Society . In the mid- to late-19th century, the area was home to many of the wealthiest New Yorkers, including members of

4850-429: The city's first botanical garden near the current intersection of Lafayette Street and Astor Place . At the time, it was located about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the developed portion of the city and served as a vacation stop for people from present-day downtown. By 1804, John Jacob Astor bought the site from Sperry and leased it to Joseph Delacroix. Delacroix built a country resort named Vauxhall Gardens on

4947-588: The city's streets at the station at 27th Street, could pass the reduced hill. By an act of 1850 the city permitted to roof over the cut for the passage of steam locomotives. This Park Avenue Tunnel , enlarged and relined, has been devoted to automobile traffic since 1937. In mid-century, the rich temporarily, and the upper middle class more permanently, filled the brownstone row houses that filled Murray Hill's streets. The Brick Presbyterian Church followed its congregation; after selling its site facing City Hall Park , it rebuilt in 1857 closer to its congregation, on

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5044-598: The citywide average of 20%. Ninety-one percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 90% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", more than the city's average of 78%. For every supermarket in Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town, there are 7 bodegas . The nearest hospitals are the Bellevue Hospital Center and NYU Langone Medical Center , located in Kips Bay . In addition, Beth Israel Medical Center

5141-469: The community board's chairman said in 2021 "is considered its own neighborhood". For its entry on Murray Hill, the American Institute of Architects ' AIA Guide to New York City uses the area bounded by 32nd Street to the south, 40th Street to the north, Madison Avenue to the west, and Third Avenue to the east. In AIA Guide , Murray Hill abuts Midtown to the north and west, Kips Bay to

5238-543: The conflicting boundaries, Muschamp said that a then-recent survey of residents found many were unable to distinguish Murray Hill by its name. What is now Midtown Manhattan was first settled by the Munsee Native Americans. With European colonization in the 17th century, the site was called Belmont and was part of the common lands of New York City. Robert Murray (1721–1786) moved from Philadelphia to New York City in 1753. During that decade, he became

5335-456: The development of the historic district. Today, the effect is of powerful and unifying streetscapes of marble, cast iron, limestone, brick, and terracotta facades. The NoHo Historic District was expanded in 2008. Additionally, another district in the neighborhood, the NoHo East Historic District, was created in 2003. The designations followed considerable effort by and strong support from numerous local community and preservation groups, including

5432-678: The development, and the area became a fashionable, upper-class residential district. This location made the gardens accessible to the people of both the Broadway and Bowery districts. Astor Place was the site of the Astor Opera House , at the intersection of Astor Place, East 8th Street, and Lafayette Street. Built to be the fashionable theater in 1847, it was the site of the Astor Place Riot of May 10, 1849. Anti-British feelings were running so high among New York's Irish at

5529-587: The dominant building type. The Merchant's House Museum , at 29 East Fourth Street, is an individual historic building located just outside the eastern boundary of the Historic District. It is also a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Both the inside and outside of this 1832 house have been restored to the mid-19th century style in which merchant Seabury Tredwell and his family lived. Despite

5626-399: The east, and Rose Hill to the south. Robert A. M. Stern 's book New York 1960 defined the area as being bounded precisely by 34th Street to the south, 42nd Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the west, and Third Avenue to the east. The New York Times states that commonly used boundaries of Murray Hill are 34th Street to the south, 42nd Street to the north, Madison Avenue to

5723-463: The estate. In the winter of 1808 during the embargo that closed New York Harbor, a work relief program kept out-of-work dock workers busy reducing the height of Murray Hill. Between twenty and forty feet were sliced off its summit and used for fill. Around that time, the area was subdivided into a regular street grid with the enactment of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 . Under the plan, what

5820-466: The existing Noho Historic District. It does not include 30 Great Jones Street, a historic building that was partially demolished in early 2008. Most of the buildings in the extension were built between the 1860s and the early 1900s, when the area had become one of the city's major commercial and manufacturing districts. By the late 1800s, larger commercial lofts in the Greek Revival style became

5917-580: The expansion of the "Alamo Plaza", where the Alamo Cube is located, south to the southern sidewalk of Astor Place between Lafayette Street and Cooper Square, and the creation of an expanded sidewalk north of the Cooper Union Foundation Building. The Astor Place subway entrance plaza was also redesigned, and Fourth Avenue south of East 9th Street and the western part of Cooper Square was converted to be used by buses only, with

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6014-472: The famous artist residents at the time were Robert Mapplethorpe , who bought a loft in NoHo; Chuck Close , who lived next to him; and street artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol . The neighborhood was revitalized beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. As artists began to rent lofts in the neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, the name NoHo came into use to distinguish it from nearby SoHo. Previously,

6111-418: The first block of Astor Place. The second block is used by the eastbound M8 (westbound buses use East 9th Street) and the uptown M101 and M102 out of service from Cooper Square, making their first stops at Third Avenue. NoHo, Manhattan NoHo , short for " No rth of Ho uston Street " (as contrasted with SoHo ), is a primarily residential neighborhood in Lower Manhattan , New York City . It

6208-735: The fragility of the structure, in April 2014 the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission approved construction of an eight-story hotel immediately next door. Preservationists including City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the Historic Districts Council and the Museum itself fought the proposed hotel for years due to concern for the intact survival of

6305-527: The frozen-yogurt shops and sushi bars that help them stay fit and find a mate for the next stage of life". On weekends, the raucous restaurant-and-bar scene along Third Avenue, beyond the traditional eastern limits of Murray Hill, particularly reflects this change. In the late 1990s, Murray Hill began to attract an influx of young college graduates, leading to a "work-hard, play-hard" atmosphere, which has since been referenced in several media sources such as The New York Times and New York Post . Though housing in

6402-604: The headquarters of the corporation's United States operations, in the same building as the headquarters of L-3. Industries supported by the office include Aerospace and Defense, Agricultural Commodities, Agrochemicals, Business Investment, Chemicals, Fertilizer, Information Technology, Latin American Operations, Living Related Products, Media and IT Venture Group, Meat Products, Presidio Venture Partners, Ship, Real Estate, Transportation Systems and Equipment, and Tubular Products. China Airlines operates its New York branch office on Third Avenue. When United Parcel Service expanded to

6499-411: The height of the Great Famine that they found an outlet in the rivalry between American actor Edwin Forrest and the English William Charles Macready , who were both presenting versions of Macbeth in nearby theatres. The protest in the streets against Macready became so violent that the police fired into the crowd. At least 18 died, and hundreds were injured. The theater itself never recovered from

6596-401: The houses for the development in 1833. The area became a fashionable, upper-class residential district, and when Lafayette Street was opened in the 1820s, it quickly became one of the most fashionable streets in New York. This location made the Gardens accessible to the residents of nearby Broadway and the Bowery . The houses once contained such notable residents as the Astor family and

6693-403: The island, before Howe was able to overtake him. The 3,500 men led by Washington were able to escape safely. James Thacher, a surgeon with the Continental Army , wrote in his journal: "It is a common saying among our officers that Mrs. Murray saved this part of the American army." According to later scholarship, the Murrays did not have such a large influence on the landing at Kip's Bay than

6790-405: The median income in Murray Hill individually was $ 117,677. In 2018, an estimated 10% of Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twenty-five residents (4%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent,

6887-434: The middle of the block between 38th and 39th Streets. At the southern end, the plot was narrow, but at the northern end it extended from approximately Lexington Avenue to a spot between Madison and Fifth Avenues . The great square house, west of the Eastern Post Road , was approached by an avenue of mixed trees leading from the road. It was flanked on three sides by verandas and contained apartments on either side of

6984-531: The nearby United Nations headquarters . The neighborhood also contains architectural landmarks, some of which are in the Murray Hill Historic District, a city and national historic district. Murray Hill is part of Manhattan Community District 6 , and its primary ZIP Codes are 10016 and 10017. It is patrolled by the 17th Precinct of the New York City Police Department . Murray Hill derives its name from Robert Murray (1721–1786),

7081-433: The neighborhood as between 4th Street and 8th Street, from Broadway to Third Avenue. Astor Place was originally a powwow point for the various Lenape tribes of Manhattan and was called Kintecoying or, "Crossroads of Three Nations". Astor Place was once known as Art Street . From 1767 through 1859, Vauxhall Gardens , a country resort, was located on this street. The area belonged to John Jacob Astor , and Astor Place

7178-438: The neighborhood is slightly cheaper than in fashionable nearby parts of Manhattan, prices for apartments here rose greatly during the boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s—as much as 500 percent in a decade. The eastern part of Murray Hill, between FDR Drive and First Avenue from 34th to 41st Streets, formerly contained industrial uses including a Coca-Cola bottling plant, Consolidated Edison 's Kips Bay Generating Station ,

7275-518: The neighborhood was 66.6% (33,818) White , 4.8% (2,423) African American , 0.1% (55) Native American , 16.2% (8,233) Asian , 0% (16) Pacific Islander , 0.4% (181) from other races , and 2% (1,008) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.9% (5,008) of the population. The entirety of Community District 6, which comprises Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town, had 53,120 inhabitants as of NYC Health 's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 84.8 years. This

7372-499: The original Colonnade Row, which is also landmarked. The Gene Frankel Theater , established in 1949, is located in the landmarked 24 Bond Street building, built in 1893. Across from Colonnade Row is The Public Theater . The easternmost block of Bleecker Street houses the last remaining Federal architecture -style row houses, including two that were once the home of the Florence Night Mission, which provided

7469-683: The period of New York City's commercial history from the early 1850s to the 1910s, when this section prospered as one of its major retail and wholesale dry goods centers. Acclaimed architects were commissioned to design ornate store and loft buildings in popular architectural styles, providing a rich fabric against which shoppers promenaded, looked at display windows, and bought goods, and merchants sold products. The district also contains early-nineteenth century houses, nineteenth- and twentieth-century institutional buildings, turn-of-the-century office buildings, as well as modest twentieth-century commercial structures, all of which testify to each successive phase in

7566-616: The proximity of the headquarters of the United Nations and the availability of old mansions, many countries operate diplomatic missions and consulates in Murray Hill, including: Missions to the United Nations in Murray Hill include: Murray Hill and Turtle Bay are patrolled by the 17th Precinct of the NYPD , located at 167 East 51st Street. The 17th Precinct and neighboring 13th Precinct ranked 57th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. The high per-capita crime rate

7663-586: The rich and (now) famous. Two Federal architecture -style row houses on the easternmost block of Bleecker Street were once the home of the National Florence Crittenton Mission , providing a home for "fallen women". 21 Bleecker Street's entrance now bears the lettering "Florence Night Mission," described by the New York Times in 1883 as "a row of houses of the lowest character". The National Florence Crittenton Mission

7760-408: The same time period. Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town, 8% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year , less than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 91% of high school students in Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town graduate on time, more than

7857-630: The site with Lafayette Street bisecting eastern gardens from western homes. The street was christened by the Marquis de Lafayette in July 1825. Wealthy New Yorkers, including Astor and other members of the family, built mansions along this central thoroughfare. Astor built the Astor Library in the eastern portion of the neighborhood as a donation to the city. Alexander Jackson Davis designed eye-catching row houses called LaGrange Terrace (now Colonnade Row ) for speculative builder Seth Geer. Geer built

7954-567: The site; the gardens had previously been located further downtown, in Tribeca . NoHo soon became an enclave for well-to-do families. Because of rapid development on Bond , Bleecker , and Great Jones Streets , it was not affordable to build houses on these streets. These streets were among the city's most elite at the time, and contained such personalities as "aristocratic" mayor Philip Hone . Therefore, in 1826, after Delacroix's lease expired, Astor carved out an upper-class neighborhood from

8051-548: The sites in anticipation of the construction of a multi-building complex. However, these plans stalled with the financial crisis of 2007–2008 , and the land lay unused. Solow later sold the 35th–36th Streets plot, and the American Copper Buildings were built on that site, opening in 2017–2018. As of 2018 , the 38th–41st Streets plot was still unused, but Solow intended to construct a four-building condo and office complex on that site. For census purposes,

8148-422: The smoothed brow of Murray Hill, at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street. However, when J. P. Morgan built his conservative brownstone free-standing mansion in 1882 on Madison Avenue at 36th Street (later part of The Morgan Library & Museum ), it was considered a fashionable but slightly old-fashioned address, as the rich were filling Fifth Avenue with palaces as far as Central Park . Instead stylish merchandising

8245-420: The south, 40th Street on the north, Madison Avenue on the west, and Second Avenue on the east. Manhattan Community Board 6 —of which Murray Hill is part—has defined the boundaries as 34th Street to the south, 40th Street to the north, Madison Avenue to the west, and the East River to the east. This definition explicitly excludes Tudor City , just north of 40th Street between First and Second Avenues, which

8342-457: The story is that Mrs. Murray invited the officers to tea and succeeded in delaying the British troops for a period sufficient to allow a successful American retreat. The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage said she saved American independence by detaining Lord Howe long enough to permit Israel Putnam to pass up the Greenwich road from the city and join the forces of George Washington in the north end of

8439-426: The teenage birth rate was based on a small sample size. Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town have a low population of residents who are uninsured . In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 3%, less than the citywide rate of 12%, though this was based on a small sample size. The concentration of fine particulate matter , the deadliest type of air pollutant , in Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town

8536-419: The underlying schist ... It had a natural rise from 34th Street , sinking towards 42nd Street and reaching from Lexington Avenue to Broadway ." The hill still exists, with an incline from 31st to 35th Streets, as well as a decline north of 37th Street. During the 19th century, modern-day Murray Hill was "uptown" with the city ending with the reservoir at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street covering what today

8633-486: The west, and the East River to the east. Additionally, "the younger, more bar-centric area south of the neighborhood in the upper 20s and lower 30s" is sometimes held to be part of Murray Hill. Times architectural critic Herbert Muschamp , writing in 1997, said the Zagat Survey defined all of the area bounded by East 30th and 40th Streets between the East River and Fifth Avenue as part of Murray Hill. Summarizing

8730-461: The work was completed in November 2016. The current 299-seat Off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre , has been located in the landmark Colonnade Row on Lafayette Street, half a block south, since 1969. It was known for premiering works by downtown playwrights like Sam Shepard , but since 1991 has been the home of Blue Man Group , which now owns the theatre. The Joseph Papp Public Theater (home to

8827-492: Was an organization established in 1883 by philanthropist Charles N. Crittenton . It attempted to reform prostitutes and unwed pregnant women through the creation of establishments where they were to live and learn skills. That same block of Bleecker Street , between Lafayette and Bowery Streets in NoHo, is also home to both the Margaret Sanger Health Center, headquarters of Planned Parenthood , and

8924-477: Was built on a since-leveled hill at what is today Park Avenue and 36th Street. The hill was named Inclenberg , or "fire beacon hill" in Dutch, referencing the fact that settlers of New Amsterdam used fire beacons to give notice of armed Native American groups. The Murray farm's total area was just under 30 acres (120,000 m ). The farm began a few feet south of modern-day 33rd Street and extended north to

9021-558: Was changing the neighborhood; 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. In 1925, the architectural firm Margon & Glaser designed the Griffon, a residential building at 77 Park Avenue and 39th Street. The Griffon which was converted into a condominium in 1969 and is known for its stunning lobby as well as its oversized apartment layouts with original details and fireplaces. The Griffon

9118-567: Was escaping on Manhattan's west side, given that the farm was on the island's east side. Furthermore, Robert Murray traded with both Continental and British Army soldiers. Nevertheless, the Murrays' actions during the war inspired at least two Broadway shows. The Daughters of the American Revolution placed a plaque in 1926 near the site of the Murray mansion, commemorating the family's wartime actions. From 1776 to 1783, when

9215-411: Was portrayed in contemporary sources. One contemporary rumor posited that Mrs. Murray and her two daughters had used "feminine wiles" to convince the officers to stop by for tea. However, later scholarship stated that Howe had ordered his troops to stand down until all the British Army troops had landed at Kips Bay. According to these writers, it was unlikely that Mrs. Murray would have known that Putnam

9312-691: Was purchased by Yeshiva University. In 2002, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission created the Murray Hill Historic District. The original district consists of 71 rowhouses, three apartments, a church, and an office within two non-contiguous areas. The district was extended in 2004 to encompass 12 additional buildings in two areas, one of which directly abuts both of the original historic district areas. The expanded city historic district includes properties on both sides of 35th through 38th Streets between Park and Lexington Avenues. The National Park Service also added

9409-479: Was renamed after him soon after his death, in 1848. In 1826, he carved out an upper-class neighborhood from the site with Lafayette Street bisecting eastern gardens from western homes. Wealthy New Yorkers, including Astor and other members of the family, built mansions along this central thoroughfare. Astor built the Astor Library in the eastern portion of the neighborhood as a donation to the city. Architect Seth Geer designed row houses called LaGrange Terrace for

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