Murray Hill, Manhattan
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Murray Hill is a neighborhood on the east side of Manhattan in New York City.
Murray Hill is generally bordered to the east by the East River or Kips Bay and to the west by Midtown Manhattan, though the exact boundaries are disputed.
Murray Hill is situated on a steep glacial hill that peaked between Lexington Avenue and Broadway.
It was named after Robert Murray, the head of the Murray family, a mercantile family that settled in the area in the 18th century.
The Murray farm was formed before 1762 and existed until at least the early 19th century.
Through the 19th century, Murray Hill was relatively isolated from the rest of New York City, which at the time was centered in Lower Manhattan.
Murray Hill became an upscale neighborhood during the 20th century.
Today, it contains several cultural institutions such as the Morgan Library & Museum, as well as missions and consulates to the nearby United Nations headquarters.
The neighborhood also contains architectural landmarks, some of which are in the Murray Hill Historic District, a city and national historic district.
Murray Hill is part of Manhattan Community District 6, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10016 and 10017.
It is patrolled by the 17th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
Murray Hill derives its name from Robert Murray （1721–1786）, an Irish-born merchant, whose family had a large estate in what is now the modern-day neighborhood.
The modern neighborhood was once an abrupt, steep-sided mound of glacial till typical of Manhattan Island's still-unmodified post-glacial terrain.
It was described by one author as a "hill of the rudest and most heterogeneous mixture of stone and gravel and boulders, cemented together
into a matrix of almost impenetrable density existed, crowning the underlying schist... It had a natural rise from 34th Street,
sinking towards ...