Carnegie Hill

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The manor of Andrew Carnegie , in which the now Cooper Hewitt Museum is housed

Carnegie Hill is a neighborhood in the Upper East Side in New York City's District Manhattan .

location

Carnegie Hill extends from 86th Street in the south to 96th Street in the north and from Fifth Avenue or Central Park in the west to Third Avenue in the east. From 96th Street to 98th Street, Carnegie Hill extends from Fifth Avenue to Park Avenue . The neighborhood is part of Manhattan Community Board 8 and is considered one of the most representative residential areas on the Upper East Side . The northern part of the neighborhood was once considered the less elegant end of the East Side, but has since been upgraded by the museums and restaurants there. In addition, Andrew Carnegie , Marjorie Merriweather Post , Margaret Rockefeller Strong and John Hay Whitney all built their homes north of 90th Street.

history

The Otto H. Kahn House on Fifth Avenue and 91st Street

Carnegie Hill is named after Andrew Carnegie's mansion, which he built on Fifth Avenue and 91st Street in 1901. Today this building houses the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design . Directly opposite on 91st Street is the Otto H. Kahn House, in the style of a Florentine palazzo, which today houses the Convent of the Sacred Heart . A number of other town houses in the area have been converted into schools such as the William Goadby and Florence Baker Loew House on 93rd Street by the Spence School or the Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt House by the Lycée Français .

The Jewish Museum, which has been housed in the Felix Warburg mansion since 1947
The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and opened in 1959

The neighborhood's architecture includes rental properties along Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue, townhouses on the side streets, condominiums , cooperative housing, and a handful of mansions that are now e.g. B. the Jewish Museum , the National Academy of Design or the Dalton School . From the 1950s to 1991, the National Audubon Society was located in the Willard Straight House, a red-brick colonial revival- style townhouse at 1130 Fifth Avenue. After they moved to NoHo , the International Center of Photography moved in until it moved to Midtown Manhattan near Bryant Park . The building has been in private use again since 2001.

Fifth Avenue in Carnegie Hill is home to a number of museums that together make up the Museum Mile . The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 82nd Street, just south of Carnegie Hill, starts on Museum Mile . Within the neighborhood you'll find the Neue Galerie on 86th Street, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on 88th Street, the National Academy Museum on 89th Street, the Cooper Hewitt Museum on 91st Street, and the Jewish Museum on 92nd Street which has been in the former manorial residence of Felix Warburg since 1947 . In 1989, the modernist extension of the Jewish Museum from 1963 was demolished and an extension was built instead, the appearance of which was adapted to the main building, the facade of which cites elements of French Gothic. The "Museum Mile" ends with the Museum of the City of New York on 103rd Street north of Carnegie Hill and finally the El Museo del Barrio on 104th Street. In addition, the Goethe Institute on 83rd Street is on the “Museum Mile” and the New York Road Runners are located very close to the “Museum Mile” in the townhouse 9 East 89th - in a block that is sometimes called “ Fred Lebow Place "is called.

Monument preservation

The Carnegie Hill Historic District was first designated on July 23, 1974 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and expanded on December 21, 1993. It extends from 86th Street in the south to just north of 98th Street in the north. Its western limit is Central Park and its eastern limit is partly Madison Avenue and partly further east Lexington Avenue . The boundaries of the Carnegie Hill Historic District are thus, according to the official determination of the monument protection, similar to the boundaries of the district in the form of an irregular rectangle, with the northern boundary, which was traditionally 96th Street, slightly north in the area of ​​the former Spanish Harlem has moved.

Efforts are underway to re-expand this monument district to protect other historic structures, such as 179 East 93rd Street, where the Marx Brothers grew up. Supporters include the 93rd Street Beautification Association or Carnegie Hill Neighbors , an organization that initiated the creation of the Historic District and works to preserve the neighborhood's character. In their more than 30 years of service, the Carnegie Hill Neighbors have fought many disputes over building projects that e.g. B. would have disturbed the predominantly low development in the area.

See also

literature

  • Andrew Alpern: The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter . New York: Acanthus Press, 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Tree: Carnegie Hill: A Paean to the Past . In: The Boston Globe . June 10, 2001. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
  2. ^ Maria Croce: The Battle of Carnegie Hill . In: Daily Record . February 12, 2000. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 14, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  3. ↑ a b c Claire Wilson: Full-Nest Zone, Empty-Nester Magnet . In: The New York Times . October 8, 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
  4. ↑ Christopher Gray: Streetscapes / 1915 Straight Residence, Until Recently the International Center of Photography; The Northernmost Mansion Built on Fifth Avenue ( English ) The New York Times Company. October 14, 2001. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  5. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2009/05/25/090525crsk_skyline_goldberger newyorker.com
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. guggenheim.org  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guggenheim.org
  7. ↑ http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11248 nycgovparks.org
  8. ↑ Carnegie Hill Historic District (PDF; 240 kB) Landmarks Preservation Commission. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 14, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nyc.gov
  9. ↑ Julie Satow: Carnegie Hill Spills Over its East 96th Street Border . In: The New York Sun . December 16, 2004. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
  10. ↑ Jake Mooney: Trying to Save a Link to a Legend and an Era . In: The New York Times . June 22, 2008. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
  11. ^ Maggie Garb: If You're Thinking of Living In / Carnegie Hill; Small-town feeling, big-city prices . In: The New York Times . March 19, 2000. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
  12. ↑ Jennifer Bleyer: Will a Rooftop Sunroom Spoil a Scenic View? . In: The New York Times . July 31, 2005. Retrieved July 14, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Carnegie Hill  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files