Lenox Hill
Lenox Hill is a neighborhood in New York City's Upper East Side in the borough of Manhattan .
location
Lenox Hill is the southernmost part of the Upper East Side - just north of Midtown Manhattan . In general, 60th Street is the southern and 77th Street is the northern limit of the district. According to The Encyclopedia of New York , Fifth Avenue is the western border and Lexington Avenue is the eastern border, with the eastern border being disputed as the possessions of Robert Lenox and his heir James Lenox were never east of Forth Avenue .
history
The quarter was named after the farm owner Robert Lenox (1759-1839). He was a Scottish merchant who owned 12 acres of land on the five-mile stone that stretched from Fifth Avenue to Forth Avenue and from 68th Street to 74th Street.
For the then very high sum of 6,420 dollars, Robert Lenox acquired the first part of this property in 1818 at an auction at the Tontine Coffee House, where the mortgage-backed property was auctioned off by Archibald Gracie. Since he was the administrator of Gracie's estate, he also did so to protect Gracie's heirs from a mortgage cancellation. A few months later, he bought three more lots, expanding his holdings north to 74th Street. Thereafter these parcels were called "Lenox Farm".
The Five Mile Post Farm , the farm house Lenox Farm, stood on a hill between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue and 70th Street and 71st Street, which of the hill (English: " hill ") have been, it must land should ever " Lenox Hill ". The New York and Harlem Railroad's "right-of-way" line passed the property's eastern border.
Robert Lenox's children, James Lenox and Henrietta A. Lenox , did not grow up on the Five Mile Post Farm, but in Lower Manhattan at the corner of 53 Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. They remained unmarried. James Lenox later divided the majority of the farmland into building lots and sold them during the 1860s and 1870s. He also donated land for Union Theological Seminary along the right-of-way railroad between 69th and 70th Streets. Just north of that, he donated an entire block between Madison and Forth Avenues and 70th and 71st Streets to the Presbyterian Hospital . He built the Lenox Library along an entire blockfont on Fifth Avenue. The Frick Collection is housed here today .
When anti-German sentiment reigned in New York City after the First World War , the German Hospital was renamed Lenox Hill Hospital in July 1918. This also gave the impetus to call this area Lenox Hill - most likely as an analogy to Murray Hill , which was a "hot spot" at the time. The hospital itself is not on the site of the former Lenox Farm: it is between 76th and 77th Streets and Park and Lexington Avenues.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Jackson, Kenneth T. (1995): The Encyclopedia of New York City , Yale University Press , Lenox Hill , p. 663.
- ↑ (New York Public Library) Guide to the James Lenox Papers ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2009 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. ; James Trager, The New York Chronology . sv "1840" [sic].
- ↑ George Austin Morrison (1906): History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906 , at pp. 85f. 6,420 dollars, whereas the New York Times in an article on the enforcement of the inheritance of Miss Henrietta A. Lenox dated September 14, 1886 indicating $ 6,920.
- ↑ James Grant Wilson (1892): The memorial history of the city of New York, from its first settlement to the year 1892 , p. 10
- ^ George Austin Morrison (1906): History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906
- ↑ "Realty Romance in Old Lenox Farm" , The New York Times , December 15, 1918th
- ^ "Founded by James Lenox, the chief features of the Presbyterian Hospital ..." , The New York Times , July 3, 1892.
