Lenox Hill

Lenox Hill (/ˌlɛnəks ˈhɪl/) is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

[1] A significant portion of the neighborhood lies within the Upper East Side Historic District, designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1981 and expanded in 2010.

[3] However, neighborhood boundaries can shift and most residents see the modern boundaries differently, as the Lenox Hill post office and the neighborhood's service-oriented retail shops are located east of Lexington Avenue.

"[3] The name "Lenox" is that of the immigrant Scottish merchant Robert Lenox (1759-1839),[11] who owned about 30 acres (120,000 m2) of land "at the five-mile (8 km) stone", reaching from Fifth to Fourth (now Park) Avenues and from East 74th to 68th Streets.

Robert Lenox's son James Lenox divided most of the farm into blocks of building lots and sold them during the 1860s and 1870s;[16] he also donated land for the Union Theological Seminary along the railroad right-of-way, between 69th and 70th Streets, and just north of it a full square block between Madison and Fourth Avenue, 70th and 71st streets, for the Presbyterian Hospital, which occupied seven somewhat austere structures on the plot;[17] He built the Lenox Library on a full block-front of Fifth Avenue, now the site of the Frick Collection.

[21] The racial composition of Lenox Hill / Roosevelt Island changed moderately from 2000 to 2010.