Murray Hill
Midtown, on the East Side, from 23rd Street to 42nd Street. The area runs from the East River to Park Avenue South between 23rd Street and 34th Street, and expands from the East River to Fifth Avenue between 34th Street and 42nd Street). Kips Bay runs from 23rd Street to 42nd Street, east of Third Avenue.
Named after the Quaker merchant who built his farm here in the eighteenth century, Murray Hill's gracious architecture has endured (of 100 townhouses listed here in the 1892 Social Register, 60 are still standing), rubbing elbows with high-rise condo towers. The formerly business corridors of Madison and Fifth avenues are being converted into gorgeous new apartments.
Cultural attractions abound, in the form of the recently renovated Morgan Library. The original building, showcase to a famous banker's collection, is a breathtaking Italian-style palazzo - and the collection includes Renaissance drawings, Dickens manuscripts, and three Gutenberg bibles.
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