Lenox Hill (Manhattan)

Lenox Hill (Manhattan)

Lenox Hill es un barrio de Manhattan en el Upper East Side. Forma la parte baja del Upper East Side, cercano a Midtown. Aunque se sabe que el barrio bordea la Calle  y la Calle 60, sus límites orientales están en disputa,[1] aunque la Enciclopedia de la Ciudad de Nueva York cita la Quinta Avenida como los límites occidentales y la Avenida Lexington en el este.[2]

El barrio recibe su nombre por el granjero[3] inmigrante escocés y comerciante Robert Lenox (1759-1839),[4] siendo propietario de 30 acres de tierras, desde la 5ª Avenida a la 4ª Avenida y desde la Calle 74 y la Calle 68. Por la exubersarante suma de $6,420 comprando tres parcelas en 1818, en una subasta hecha en el Tontine Coffee House. [5] Meses después compró otras tres parcelas extendiendo su propiedad hasta el norte de la Calle 74.[6] Más tarde, la zona fue llamada como 'Lenox Farm'"[7] La granja estuvo por muchos años en lo que hoy se conoce como la Quinta Avenida, la Avenida Madison, las es 70 y 71. El ferrocarril  New York & Harlem Railroad pasaba en el lado oriental de la propiedad. 

El hijo de Robert Lenox,  James Lenox dividió gran parte de la granja en cuadras de lotes de edificios y los vendió durante los años 1860 y 70s;[8] [9] Él construyó la Biblioteca Lenox en la Quinta Avenida, ahora el sitio de Frick Collection.

Lenox Hill Hospital, el antiguo Hospital alemán, se encuentra localizado en esta zona. 

Referencias

  1. Robert Lenox and his heir James Lenox never owned property east of Fourth Avenue; the largest unbroken lot in that section was "Jones's Wood".
  2. Jackson, Kenneth T. The Encyclopedia of New York City, Yale University Press (1995), Lenox Hill, p. 663.
  3. Lenox, and his unmarried children James and Henrietta A. Lenox, never lived at "Five Mile Post Farm", but remained in a corner house at 53 Fifth Avenue, at 12th Street.
  4. (New York Public Library) Guide to the James Lenox Papers; James Trager, The New York Chronology. s.v. "1840" [sic].
  5. George Austin Morrison, History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906 (1906) p. 85f gives $6420; "Miss Lenox's heirs", The New York Times, 14 September 1886, gives "$6920". Miss Henrietta A. Lenox, a daughter of Robert Lenox.
  6. James Grant Wilson, The Memorial History of the City of New-York from Its First Settlement... 1893, p. 10
  7. Morrison 1906.
  8. "Realty Romance in Old Lenox Farm", The New York Times, 15 de diciembre de 1918; the occasion was the auction of the auction sale an 1874 map of the section of Robert Lenox's farm that lay between 71st and 74th Streets.
  9. "Founded by James Lenox, the chief features of the Presbyterian Hospital..., The New York Times, 3 July 1892.

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