Carnegie Hill

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{{Short description|Neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City}}
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[[File:Cooper_Hewitt_(48059131921).jpg|thumb|The [[Andrew Carnegie Mansion]] is a neighborhood landmark and its namesake structure.]]
'''Carnegie Hill''' is a neighborhood within the [[Upper East Side]], in the [[Boroughs of New York City|borough]] of [[Manhattan]] in [[New York City]]. Its boundaries are [[86th Street (Manhattan)|86th Street]] on the south, [[Fifth Avenue]] ([[Central Park]]) on the west, with a northern boundary at 98th Street that continues just past [[Lexington Avenue]] and turns south to [[96th Street (Manhattan)|96th Street]] and proceeds east up to, but not including, [[Third Avenue]].<ref name=encyclopediany>Mendelsohn, Joyce. "Carnegie Hill" in {{cite enc-nyc2}}, p.205. "Neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, bounded to the north by 98th Street, to the east to, but not including, Third Avenue, to the south by [[86th Street (Manhattan)|86th Street]], and to the west by [[Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)|5th Avenue]]."</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/10/06/realestate/08livi_map_ready.html|title = The New York Times > Real Estate > Image > Map: Carnegie Hill}}</ref> The neighborhood is part of [[Manhattan Community Board 8|Manhattan Community District 8]].

In the 2000s, the perceived northern boundary on Park Avenue has edged over 96th Street into what was traditionally [[Spanish Harlem]],<ref name="spill" /> leading to that area sometimes being called Upper Carnegie Hill, especially by real-estate brokers.<ref>{{cite news | title = Reaching High on Upper 5th Avenue | date = October 21, 2011 | first = Laura | last = Kusisto | work = [[The Wall Street Journal]] | access-date = February 22, 2013 |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204618704576643022038133998 | archive-date = October 23, 2011 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111023171126/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576643022038133998.html}}</ref> According to the official Carnegie Hill Neighbors website, the Carnegie Hill neighborhood extends from 86th to 98th Streets, from Fifth Avenue up to, but not including, Third Avenue.<ref>[https://www.carnegiehillneighbors.org/about/ About Us], Carnegie Hill Neighbors. Accessed October 5, 2018. "The Carnegie Hill catchment area extends from 86th Street to 98th Street, from the east side of Fifth Avenue to just west of Third Avenue."</ref>

==History==
The neighborhood is named after [[Andrew Carnegie Mansion|the mansion]] that [[Andrew Carnegie]] built in 1901 at Fifth Avenue and [[91st Street (Manhattan)|91st Street]].<ref name="battle">{{Cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-60876134|title=The Battle of Carnegie Hill|access-date=July 14, 2008|date=February 12, 2000|author=Maria Croce|work=Daily Record}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Today the mansion is the home of the [[Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum]], a branch of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]. Facing it across 91st Street is the Italian palazzo-style [[Otto H. Kahn House]], currently the home of the [[Convent of the Sacred Heart (New York City)|Convent of the Sacred Heart]], a Roman Catholic girls' school. Several townhouses in the area have been converted to schools, including the [[William Goadby Loew House]] on [[93rd Street]] (formerly the Smithers Alcoholism Center), currently occupied by the [[Spence School]], and next door, the [[Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House|Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt House]], converted to a school by the [[Lycée Français de New York|Lycée Français]], but sold in 2005 to a private owner.
The architecture of the neighborhood includes [[apartment]] buildings along Park Avenue and [[Fifth Avenue]], [[brownstone]]s (with [[urban stoop|stoop]]s) and [[townhouse]]s on the side streets, [[condominium|condos]], [[Housing cooperative|co-ops]] and a handful of mansions, of which some are now used by the [[Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum]], [[Jewish Museum (New York)|The Jewish Museum]], the [[National Academy of Design]], the [[Dalton School]] and other organizations.<ref name="fnz"/> From the 1950s to 1971, the [[National Audubon Society]] was housed in the [[Willard Dickerman Straight|Willard Straight]] House, a red brick [[Colonial Revival]] townhouse at 1130 Fifth Avenue.<ref name="1974NewMuseum">{{cite news |last1=Glueck |first1=Grace |date=May 22, 1974 |title=New Museum for Photography To Be Headed by Cornell Capa |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/22/archives/new-museum-for-photography-to-be-headed-by-cornell-capa.html |access-date=September 24, 2020}}</ref> When it moved to [[NoHo]], the [[International Center of Photography]] moved in but later consolidated its operations in [[Midtown (Manhattan)|Midtown]] near [[Bryant Park]]. In 2001, it again became a private residence.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/realestate/streetscapes-1915-straight-residence-until-recently-international-center.html|title=Streetscapes/1915 Straight Residence, Until Recently the International Center of Photography; the Northernmost Mansion Built on Fifth Avenue|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 14, 2001|last1=Gray|first1=Christopher}}</ref>

In 1989, the Jewish Museum demolished its 1963 [[mid-century modern|modernist]] addition and courtyard, replacing it with a new extension opened in 1993 that mimics the [[French Gothic architecture|French Gothic]] details of the [[Felix Warburg|Warburg Mansion]], the museum's home since 1947. The limestone was crafted in [[Morningside Heights]] at the Cathedral Stoneworks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teitelbaumdevelopers.com/cathedral_stoneworks/jewish_museum.html |title=Cathedral Stoneworks |access-date=July 26, 2009 |archive-date=September 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909232418/http://www.teitelbaumdevelopers.com/cathedral_stoneworks/jewish_museum.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Frank Lloyd Wright|Frank Lloyd Wright's]] originally maligned and now celebrated [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]] opened on Fifth Avenue in 1959.<ref>{{cite news |title=Spiralling Upward |author=Paul Goldberger |url=https://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2009/05/25/090525crsk_skyline_goldberger |magazine=The New Yorker |date=May 25, 2009 |access-date=November 3, 2011}}</ref><ref>http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/about-us/50th-anniversary {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100222145159/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/about-us/50th-anniversary |date=February 22, 2010 }} ''guggenheim.org''</ref> The [[New York Road Runners]] occupies a townhouse around the corner at 9 East 89th Street, a block informally known as [[Fred Lebow]] Place.<ref>http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11248 ''nycgovparks.org''</ref>

Similar to the official lines of the historic district, the borders of the neighborhood form an irregular rectangle<ref name="fnz">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/realestate/08livi.html|title=Full-Nest Zone, Empty-Nester Magnet|access-date=July 14, 2008|date=October 8, 2006|author=Claire Wilson|work=The New York Times}}</ref> and the northern boundary, which traditionally was 96th Street, has on Park Avenue edged into what was traditionally [[Spanish Harlem]].<ref name="spill">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nysun.com/real-estate/carnegie-hill-spills-over-its-east-96th-street/6415/|title=Carnegie Hill Spills Over its East 96th Street Border|access-date=July 14, 2008|date=December 16, 2004|first=Julie |last=Satow|work=The New York Sun|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222173914/http://www.nysun.com/real-estate/carnegie-hill-spills-over-its-east-96th-street/6415/|archive-date=December 22, 2010}}</ref>

The northern section neighborhood was once seen as a less fashionable end of the East Side, but is now prized for its aesthetic sensibility, museums, schools, restaurants and neighborhood feel.<ref name="paean">{{Cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EC968D601927EDC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Carnegie Hill: A Paean to the Past |access-date=July 14, 2008|date=June 10, 2001|author=Christina Tree|work=The Boston Globe}}</ref> Besides, Andrew Carnegie, [[Marjorie Merriweather Post]], [[Margaret Rockefeller Strong]] and [[John Hay Whitney]] all made their homes north of 90th Street.
[[File:Otto_H_Kahn_House_(48237027662).jpg|thumb|The [[Otto H. Kahn House]], [[Fifth Avenue]] at 91st Street]]

==Preservation==
The '''Carnegie Hill Historic District''', designated as such by the [[Landmarks Preservation Commission]] on July 23, 1974, and then expanded on December 21, 1993, runs from [[86th Street (Manhattan)|86th Street]] in the south to just north of 98th Street in the north. Its western boundary is [[Central Park]], and its eastern boundary varies from [[Madison Avenue]] in some parts to [[Lexington Avenue]] farther east in others.<ref name="lpc">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/carnegie_hill.pdf|title=Carnegie Hill Historic District|access-date=July 14, 2008|publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226063753/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/carnegie_hill.pdf|archive-date=December 26, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> There are efforts to expand this district to protect structures not designated as landmarks, including 179 East [[93rd Street (Manhattan)|93rd Street]], where the [[Marx Brothers]] were raised.<ref name="leg">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/nyregion/thecity/22marx.html|title=Trying to Save a Link to a Legend and an Era|access-date=July 14, 2008|date=June 22, 2008|author=Jake Mooney|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Proponents include the 93rd Street Beautification Association<ref>[http://savemarxbrothersplace.wordpress.com/ 93rd Street Beautification Association]</ref> and Carnegie Hill Neighbors,<ref>[http://www.carnegiehillneighbors.org/cms/index.php Carnegie Hill Neighbors] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430053736/http://www.carnegiehillneighbors.org/cms/index.php |date=April 30, 2010 }}</ref> organizations which, seeking to preserve the village-like environment, spurred the creation of the historic district and actively monitor its well being.<ref name="treel">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-carnegie-hill-small-town-feeling-big-city-prices.html|title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Carnegie Hill; Small-Town Feeling, Big-City Prices|access-date=July 14, 2008|date=March 19, 2000|author=Maggie Garb|work=The New York Times}}</ref> In its more than thirty years of operation, its well-publicized battles have included advocating against an adult education center near the [[92nd Street Y]], plans for more high rise apartments and additions to existing brownstones.<ref name="fnz"/><ref name="roof">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/nyregion/thecity/31roof.html|title=Will a Rooftop Sunroom Spoil a Scenic View?|access-date=July 14, 2008|date=July 31, 2005|author=Jennifer Bleyer|work=The New York Times}}</ref>

== Prominent locations ==

* [[92nd Street Y]] is a cultural and community center.

==Education==
[[File:Hunter_College_High_School_(48059229647).jpg|thumb|[[Hunter College High School]]]]
[[Hunter College High School]], a highly selective nationally ranked high school, is located at the corner of 94th Street and Park Avenue.

The [[New York City Department of Education]] operates public schools such as Lower Lab, one of three gifted and talented programs in NYC.

The main campus of the [[La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi]] Italian international school is in Carnegie Hill at 12 East 96th Street.

==See also==
* [[Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District]]
* [[Fifth Avenue#Museum Mile|Museum Mile, New York City]]
* [[Yorkville, Manhattan|Yorkville]]

==References==
'''Bibliography'''
* Alpern, Andrew. ''[[The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter]]''. (New York: Acanthus Press) 2002.

'''Notes'''
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Carnegie Hill, Manhattan}}
*[https://www.carnegiehillneighbors.org/ Carnegie Hill Neighbors]

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