Blue Hill was established in April 2000 and is owned by Dan, David, and Laureen Barber.

The restaurant uses some ingredients from the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York, where Dan Barber owns another restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

Blue Hill New York was lauded by the James Beard Foundation as an "Outstanding Restaurant" in 2013.

[citation needed] In May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, chef Dan Barber launched the resourcED program at Blue Hill which packaged ingredients from the Stone Barns farm and included directions for customers to cook the food themselves.

The boxes were intended to keep the restaurant and their suppliers in business when they couldn't host diners.