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=== Boundaries === According to the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association (formerly the Murray Hill Committee), the neighborhood encompasses the 10016 zip code—bounded by 27th Street to the south, [[40th Street (Manhattan)|40th Street]] to the north, [[Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)|Fifth Avenue]] to the west, and the [[East River]] to the east.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Murray Hill for Family Living|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/realestate/murray-hill-for-family-living.html|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date = August 13, 2014|access-date = December 1, 2015|issn = 0362-4331|first = Alison|last = Gregor|quote = Murray Hill runs from 40th Street down to about 27th Street, and from Fifth Avenue over to the East River, according to the neighborhood association.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.murrayhillnyc.org/common/news/articles/article_detail.cfm?QID=10181&clientID=11037&topicID=0&subsection=sidebar&ThisPage=About |website=Murray Hill Neighborhood Association |title=About Us |access-date=July 19, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915223618/http://www.murrayhillnyc.org/common/news/articles/article_detail.cfm?QID=10181&clientID=11037&topicID=0&subsection=sidebar&ThisPage=About |archive-date=September 15, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNR2CQAAQBAJ|title=Exploring Manhattan's Murray Hill|first1=Alfred|last1=Pommer|first2=Joyce|last2=Pommer|publisher=The History Press|year=2013|isbn=9781625845153|quote=The Murray Hill Farm (Belmont) ran from today's East 34th Street to East 40th Street and from Madison Avenue to Third Avenue. The Murray Hill Neighborhood (postal district) runs from East 27th Street to East 40th Street and from Fifth Avenue to the East River. The Murray Hill Historic District is located along parts of East 35th Street, East 36th Street, East 37th Street and East 38th Street.}}</ref> By this definition, Murray Hill overlaps with [[Rose Hill, Manhattan|Rose Hill]], which is also known as '''Curry Hill''' and '''Little India'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/gardner-indian/articles/m/u/r/Murray_Hill_b037.html|title = Murray Hill – the Peopling of New York City: Indian Communities|website=Macaulay Honors College|access-date=March 28, 2020}}</ref> This section of Murray Hill was formerly also known as [[Kalustyan's#Little Armenia|Little Armenia]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Little Armenia, New York | website=The Armenite | date=March 17, 2014 | url=https://thearmenite.com/2014/03/little-armenia-new-york-bhavna-patel/ | access-date=March 29, 2020}}</ref> The [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] has described Murray Hill's boundaries as roughly [[34th Street (Manhattan)|34th Street]] on the south, 40th Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and [[Third Avenue]] on the east.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/bowdoin.pdf |title=George S. Bowdoin Stable |date=June 17, 1997 |publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |page=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607155318/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/bowdoin.pdf |archive-date=June 7, 2010}}</ref> The city's Planning Department has described the boundaries as roughly 34th Street on the south, 40th Street on the north, [[Madison Avenue (Manhattan)|Madison Avenue]] on the west, and [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second Avenue]] on the east.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/applicants/env-review/first_ave/09_feis.pdf |title=First Avenue Properties Rezoning Final SEIS |page=9-6 |year=2008}}</ref> [[Manhattan Community Board 6]]—of which Murray Hill is part—has defined the boundaries as 34th Street to the south, 40th Street to the north, Madison Avenue to the west, and the [[East River]] to the east.<ref name="NYT1999">{{cite news|last=Cheslow|first=Jerry|date=December 5, 1999|title=If You're Thinking of Living In / Murray Hill; A Quiet Enclave Close to Midtown|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E0DD113FF936A35751C1A96F958260&scp=1&sq=%22Robert+Murray%22+howe+%22murray+hill%22|access-date=January 12, 2008}}</ref> This definition explicitly excludes [[Tudor City]], just north of 40th Street between First and Second Avenues, which the community board's chairman said in 2021 "is considered its own neighborhood".<ref name=nyt-2021-12-15/> For its entry on Murray Hill, the [[American Institute of Architects]]' ''[[AIA Guide to New York City]]'' uses the area bounded by 32nd Street to the south, 40th Street to the north, Madison Avenue to the west, and Third Avenue to the east. In ''AIA Guide'', Murray Hill abuts [[Midtown Manhattan|Midtown]] to the north and west, [[Kips Bay, Manhattan|Kips Bay]] to the east, and [[Rose Hill, Manhattan|Rose Hill]] to the south.<ref name=aia>{{cite AIA4}}</ref> [[Robert A. M. Stern]]'s book ''New York 1960'' defined the area as being bounded precisely by 34th Street to the south, [[42nd Street (Manhattan)|42nd Street]] to the north, Fifth Avenue to the west, and Third Avenue to the east.<ref>{{Cite NY1960|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ibJ3XCcSXCMC&q=%22Murray+Hill%22+%22Fifth+Avenue%22 297]|quote=The postwar era brought significant changes to Murray Hill, bounded by Thirty-Fourth and Forty-second streets, Third and Fifth avenues, and historically among Manhattan's most architecturally cohesive and socially desirable residential neighborhoods.}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' states that commonly used boundaries of Murray Hill are [[34th Street (Manhattan)|34th Street]] to the south, [[42nd Street (Manhattan)|42nd Street]] to the north, [[Madison Avenue]] to the west, and the East River to the east.<ref name=nyt-2021-12-15/> Additionally, "the younger, more bar-centric area south of the neighborhood in the upper 20s and lower 30s" is sometimes held to be part of Murray Hill.<ref name=nyt-2009-04-17>{{Cite news|last=Vandam|first=Jeff|date=April 17, 2009|title=A Lot to Soak Up, Even Outside the Bars|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/realestate/19livi.html|access-date=April 13, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ''Times'' architectural critic [[Herbert Muschamp]], writing in 1997, said the ''[[Zagat Survey]]'' defined all of the area bounded by East 30th and 40th Streets between the East River and Fifth Avenue as part of Murray Hill. Summarizing the conflicting boundaries, Muschamp said that a then-recent survey of residents found many were unable to distinguish Murray Hill by its name.<ref name="Muschamp 1997" />
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