Lenox Hill (New York City, New York) | neighbourhood

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Lenox Hill is a sub-neighborhood within the Upper East Side neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. While it is agreed that the neighborhood ranges from 72nd Street to 59th Street, its eastern border is disputed, though The Encyclopedia of New York City cites Fifth Avenue as the western boundary and Lexington Avenue on the east.

The neighborhood is named for the tenant farm of the immigrant Scottish merchant Robert Lenox (1759-1839),who owned about 30 acres (120,000 m2) of land "at the five-mile (8 km) stone", reaching from 5th Avenue to 4th Avenue and from 74th Street to 68th Street. The tenant farmhouse stood on the rise of ground between Fifth and Madison avenues and 70th and 71st Streets, which would have been the hill, if the property had ever been called "Lenox Hill." The railroad right-of-way of the New York & Harlem Railroad passed along the east boundary of the property.