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===<span class="anchor" id="Twentieth century"></span>Late 20th century to present=== [[File:Midtown_Manhattan_from_the_East_River_NY1.jpg|thumb|View of Murray Hill and [[Midtown Manhattan]] from the [[East River]]]] For much of the 20th century, Murray Hill was a quiet and rather formal place, with many wealthy older residents. In 1905, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt lived close by Franklin's mother [[Sara Roosevelt]] in the Murray Hill neighborhood.<ref name="The Historical Marker Database 2023 i349">{{cite web | title=Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Historical Marker | website=The Historical Marker Database | date=January 31, 2023 | url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=198699 | access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref> Since the late 1990s, many young people in their twenties have moved to the area from the suburbs of New York. As reported in ''The New York Times'' in 2011, "...recent college graduates can find themselves among fellow alumni, meet up for familiar drinking rituals and flock to the frozen-yogurt shops and sushi bars that help them stay fit and find a mate for the next stage of life".<ref name="nyt-2011-01-19">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/nyregion/19about.html |title=In Murray Hill, the College Life Need Never End |access-date=January 19, 2011 |last=Berger |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Berger (author)|date=January 18, 2011 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> On weekends, the raucous restaurant-and-bar scene along Third Avenue, beyond the traditional eastern limits of Murray Hill, particularly reflects this change. In the late 1990s, Murray Hill began to attract an influx of young college graduates, leading to a "work-hard, play-hard" atmosphere, which has since been referenced in several media sources such as ''The New York Times''<ref name="nyt-2011-01-19"/> and ''New York Post''. Though housing in the neighborhood is slightly cheaper than in fashionable nearby parts of Manhattan, prices for apartments here rose greatly during the boom of the late 1990s and early 2000sβas much as 500 percent in a decade. The eastern part of Murray Hill, between [[FDR Drive]] and First Avenue from 34th to 41st Streets, formerly contained industrial uses including a [[Coca-Cola]] bottling plant, [[Consolidated Edison]]'s [[Kips Bay Generating Station]], the [[Kips Bay Brewing Company]], and Con Edison's [[Waterside Generating Station|Waterside power plant]]. In the 1980s some of these blocks were rezoned to allow for residential development, which led to the construction of the [[View 34|Rivergate]], [[Manhattan Place]], and Horizon high-rise apartment buildings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Susan Heller |date=March 8, 1983 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/08/nyregion/luxury-housing-is-being-erected-on-the-east-side.html |title=Luxury Housing Is Being Erected on the East Side |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 29, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Thomas |first=Scott |date=March 30, 1987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3eQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA17 |title=Neighborhood Profile β Midtown East |magazine=New York |page=17A |access-date=March 29, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bagli |first=Charles V. |date=August 21, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/nyregion/developers-find-newest-frontier-on-the-east-side.html |title=Developers Find Newest Frontier on the East Side |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 29, 2023}}</ref> Con Edison's lots were placed for sale in 1999.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/nyregion/con-ed-plans-to-sell-3-lots-near-the-un.html|title=Con Ed Plans To Sell 3 Lots Near the U.N.|last=Holusha|first=John|date=February 17, 1999|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 17, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The billionaire developer [[Sheldon Solow]] purchased the three plots of land in 2000 and demolished the sites in anticipation of the construction of a multi-building complex. However, these plans stalled with the [[2008 financial crisis]], and the land lay unused.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/nyregion/prime-lot-empty-for-years-yes-this-is-manhattan.html|title=Prime Lot, Empty for Years (Yes, This Is Manhattan)|last=Bagli|first=Charles V.|date=August 19, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 17, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Solow later sold the 35thβ36th Streets plot, and the [[American Copper Buildings]] were built on that site, opening in 2017β2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/nyregion/resilient-design-american-copper-buildings-weather-flooding.html|title=Building to the Sky, With a Plan for Rising Waters|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|date=January 26, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 17, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Solow commissioned architect [[Richard Meier]] to design a residential tower on the 39thβ40th Streets plot, 685 First Avenue, which began construction in 2016 and was completed in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last=Higgins |first=Michelle |date=November 4, 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/realestate/a-richard-meier-building-in-black.html |title=A Richard Meier Building. In Black. |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=February 19, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/685-first-avenue_o |title=685 First Avenue |website=Architect Magazine |access-date=February 19, 2025}}</ref> {{As of|2018||df=}}, the 38thβ41st Streets plot was still unused, but Solow intended to construct a four-building condo and office complex on that site.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ny.curbed.com/2018/4/6/17207358/sheldon-solow-685-first-avenue-development|title=Sheldon Solow's empty east side site will gain 3 more condos, biotech office space|last=Rosenberg|first=Zoe|date=April 6, 2018|website=Curbed NY|access-date=April 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/realestate/a-real-estate-dynasty-passes-the-torch.html|title=A Real Estate Dynasty Passes the Torch|last=Hughes|first=C. J.|date=April 6, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 17, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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