Murray Hill-Kips Bay

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Murray Hill-Kips Bay covers Manhattan's East Side from 23rd Street to 42nd Street, out to the East River, and includes Tudor City between First and Second Avenues.

  • 0.57 square miles
  • 63,520 residents, 2020 Census
  • 118 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 52 bus routes

Murray Hill is named for Robert Murray, a Scottish-born merchant whose Inclenberg estate, on land he leased before 1762, stood near today's Park Avenue and 36th Street, while Kips Bay takes its name from a former East River inlet, named for the Dutch settler Jacobus Kip, where British troops landed on September 15, 1776. Tudor City, a Tudor Revival apartment complex with its own parks, was largely finished by 1932. Bellevue Hospital and other medical centers line First Avenue.

Sources: Murray Hill, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Kips Bay, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Tudor City Historic District Designation Report (LP-1579) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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Murray Hill-Kips Bay borders six areas, and Queens Midtown Tunnel holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 118.

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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Grand Central-42 St lines 4 5 6 7 accessible
  • 33 St lines 6
  • 28 St lines 6

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 52 routes stop in or at the edge of Murray Hill-Kips Bay.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 42 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M9
  • M15
  • M15-SBS
  • M23-SBS
  • M34-SBS
  • M34A-SBS
  • M42
  • M101
  • M102
  • M103

Express bus routes

  • BM1
  • BM2
  • BM3
  • BM4
  • BM5
  • BxM1
  • QM1
  • QM2
  • QM4
  • QM5
  • QM6
  • QM7
  • QM8
  • QM10
  • QM11
  • QM12
  • QM15
  • QM16
  • QM17
  • QM18
  • QM20
  • QM24
  • QM25
  • QM31
  • QM32
  • QM34
  • QM35
  • QM36
  • QM40
  • QM42
  • QM44
  • QM63
  • QM64
  • QM65
  • QM68
  • SIM3
  • SIM6
  • SIM10
  • SIM11
  • SIM31
  • X37
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 2,126 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.0 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 11 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 69 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
57
Turn calming
21
Accessible pedestrian signals
20
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
6

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than bus-lane or red-light tickets.

  • 277 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 9,891 school-zone speed camera tickets at nine corners
  • 9,157 bus-lane camera tickets at three corners
Most red-light tickets
3rd Avenue & East 36th Street, 277
Most speed tickets
2nd Avenue & East 30th Street, 3,583
Most bus-lane tickets
3rd Avenue & East 43rd Street, 8,471

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 63,520 residents in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, about 111,400 per square mile.

  • 40,838 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,414 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 896 residential lots hold buildings from 1912 or earlier, and 80% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Straus development lies wholly or partly within Murray Hill-Kips Bay.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
11.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Asser Levy Playground (2.8 acres), St. Vartan Park (2.8 acres) and East River Esplanade (1.7 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Civic Club (Estonian House), the Daily News Building, the New York School of Applied Design for Women and the Ford Foundation Building, among others
Historic districts
Sniffen Court and Tudor City, wholly or partly within Murray Hill-Kips Bay

Streets and trees

Trees
2,496 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Queens Midtown Tunnel, with 23 of the area's 118
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at FDR Drive & East 23rd Street to 77 feet at Park Avenue & East 37th Street
Honorary street names
8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 13 schools and one library in Murray Hill-Kips Bay.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
8
Library
Kips Bay Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 24 bike-share stations stand in Murray Hill-Kips Bay. The City's public art inventory lists four works in the area, among them The Isaiah Wall (1948), Skagerrak (1971) and Peace Form One (1980).

  • 24 bike-share stations
  • 4 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 612 major felonies at places in Murray Hill-Kips Bay.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Murray Hill-Kips Bay

  • 473 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,749 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Murray Hill-Kips Bay, the NYPD recorded another 163 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Murray Hill-Kips Bay.

Police precincts
17th (most of the area), 13th, 14th
Major felonies recorded at places in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 262 major felonies at places in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, against 290 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.