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Sutton
Place
is the name given to an affluent street and surrounding enclave of the borough
of Manhattan in New York City. It is located on the cusp of the Midtown and
Upper East Side neighborhoods, along the East River. Moneyed empty-nesters live
alongside midtown working stiffs in virtually every style of apartment (at every
price range): modern skyscrapers with floor-to-ceiling windows, great pre-wars,
brownstones. Few schools and a hike to the subway keep the stroller set away.
Wave to Stephen Sondheim, whose townhouse backs up to the legendary Turtle Bay
gardens, or high-five Derek Jeter, who bunks in Trump World Tower.
Sutton Place encompasses two public parks, one at 57th Street and another at
53rd Street. One Sutton Place South, with its triple-arch driveway, is a
neo-Georgian style mansion that was designed by Rosario Candela. Other prominent
residents of Sutton Place include architect I.M. Pei, former New York Governor
Mario Cuomo, and actress Sigourney Weaver. Former residents of Sutton Place
include Bill Blass, Bobby Short, Irene Hayes, Elsie de Wolfe, Marilyn Monroe and
her then husband Arthur Miller.The official residence of the United Nations
Secretary-General is a four-story townhouse in Sutton Place. The townhouse was
built for Anne Morgan, daughter of financier J.P. Morgan, in 1921, and donated
as a gift to the United Nations in 1972. The stylish Grand Beekman tower and the
Beekman Regent, a converted schoolhouse, located on opposite corners of 51st and
First. Other recent developments, like the ultra-luxe Trump World Tower,
initially boosted prices here by about 10 percent, a phenomenon brokers say is
settling down.
Boundaries:
From 42nd Street to 59th Street, from Fifth Ave to the East River.
Borders: Gramercy Park and Upper East Side
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Turtle
Bay
named after an actual bay that was filled in and is now the site of the United
Nations Headquarters. Located in New York City, on the east side of Midtown
Manhattan. It extends between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and eastward from Lexington
Avenue to the East River, across from Roosevelt Island.
The origin of the name "Turtle Bay" is in some dispute. Some historians claim
that it was due to the turtle-filled creek that emptied into the East River bay,
while others have asserted that it was merely a corruption of the Dutch word "Deutal"—meaning
a bent blade—that was used to describe the bay's shape.
The Turtle Bay neighborhood was originally a 40 acre (160,000 m²) grant given to
two Englishmen by the Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam in 1639, and
named "Turtle Bay Farm". After the street grid system was initiated in
Manhattan, the hilly landscape of the Turtle Bay Farm was graded to create
cross-streets and the land was subdivided for residential development.
The stores in the neighborhood
are on the avenues. There are four supermarkets and a mixture of old-time
service businesses. The area abounds with popular restaurants, among them Lutece,
a culinary landmark on 50th Street; Smith & Wollensky, a steak house on Third
Avenue at 49th Street, and La Mediterranee, a French restaurant on Second Avenue
at 50th Street.
The Turtle Bay Association lists
20 "oases," the largest of which is the United Nations Garden. And a footbridge
at the 51st Street end of Beekman Place gives access to the walk along the
river.
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Murray
Hill
is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan that extends south
from 42nd Street to meet the neighborhood of Gramercy (or Rose Hill as the
northern half of Gramercy is often referred to) at 29th Street. Blocks on
Lexington Avenue around 28th Street is sometimes known as "Curry Hill", for the
high concentration of Indian restaurants.
Its western border is at Fifth
Avenue and eastern border now extends beyond Lexington Avenue, to meet the
distinct waterfront neighborhoods of Kips Bay and Tudor City at Second Avenue.
LOCATION
The East Side of Manhattan. South of 42nd street, north of 34th street, east of
Park Avenue.
Murray Hill would probably not
be the most charming neighborhood of New York but many find it extremely
practical. Residents are a mix of professionals (a majority), SVA students, NYU
medical students, NYU medical faculty, seniors and some "creative professionals"
priced out of downtown. There are some "quasi-projects" on Second Avenue, too.
Although Murray Hill is mostly a
land of tall modern high-rises, brownstones do exist.
Murray
Hill
is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan that extends South
from 42nd Street to meet the neighborhood of Gramercy at 29th Street. Its a
small area located between Fifth Avenue and the Franklin Delanor Roosevelt
(FDR), and 34th and 40th Streets.
It is the nicest residential
area closest to the Midtown business district, combining elegant townhouses on
the side streets and attractive apartment buildings with some good clubs and a
great small museum. The area also has excellent transportation as it is
literally in the middle of Manhattan. The residents of the neighborhood are
generally in their 30's and 40's who like their neighborhood cafe's and shops
surrounding them at every turn. The nice thing about this community is that once
you move in, you will probably not want to move out. Residents have lived in
this area for years and have no plans on leaving. The rents aren't low but they
aren't overbearing either. Most residents in this area own their apartments and
you can find anything you want in Murray Hill from a condo to a co-op, to a
brownstone.
This area has some of the most spectacular buildings in the city, there's the
Morgan Library on the northeast corner of 36th Street and Madison Avenue. The
northeast corner at 37th Street and Madison Avenue is occupied by one of the
city's most romantic mansions. Built by Joseph Raphael De Lamar, a Dutch
entrepreneur who made his fortune in the California Gold Rush, the Beaux Arts
building was designed by C. P. H. Gilbert and is now the Consulate General of
the Republic of Poland. This and the Morgan Library provide Murray Hill with
considerable elegance and style.
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The
Kips
Bay
neighborhood of Manhattan is the area between 23rd Street and 34th Street
extending from the East River to Third Avenue. Kips Bay was named after a
17th century Dutch farmer, Jacobus Kip. His farm ran from Second Avenue and 35th
street to the East River. At that time, the river formed a bay which was named
for him. This bay was later filled in, yet remains in the name of the area. Kips
Bay was also the site of a battle of the American Revolutionary War that left
New York City in the hands of the British. The British army landed at Kips Bay
on September 15th 1776.
Like other neighborhoods in New
York City, the boundaries of Kip's Bay are somewhat vague. Often, Kips Bay is
linked to neighboring regions like Murray Hill, Kips Bay, Kips Bay, Midtown East
or Kips Bay, Gramercy.
There are two large apartment
buildings in the neighborhood named Kips Bay Towers (designed by architect I.M.
Pei) and many businesses in the neighborhood use the moniker (e.g. Kips Bay
Cinemas, Kips Bay Cleaners, Kips Bay branch of the New York Public Library).
Built on a pier above the East River between 25th and 28th Streets are Waterside
Plaza and the United Nations International School. There were plans to build
additional above-water apartment towers in the 1980s, but environmental concerns
doomed them. Today, the waterfront south of Waterside Plaza is Stuyvesant Cove
Park.The area is dominated by the institutional buildings of New York
University's (NYU) medical school and its hospitals, Rusk, Tisch, Bellevue, and
the Manhattan VA Hospital.Since the late 1990s, the area has been best
recognized by a strip of commercial buildings referred to as "Kips Bay," which
consists of a Loews theatre (now AMC), BORDERS, Petco, Crunch Fitness, and a
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