Kips Bay
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The Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan is the area between 23rd Street and 34th Street to the east of Third Avenue. It was named after a 17th century Dutch farmer called Jacobus Kip. His farm ran from Second Avenue and 35th street to the East River. At that time, the river formed a bay which was named for him. This bay was later filled in, yet remains in the name of the area.
Kips Bay was also the site of a battle of the American Revolutionary War that left New York City in the hands of the British.
Like other neighborhoods in New York City, the boundaries of Kip's Bay are somewhat subjective. The name Kip's Bay is sometimes linked as Murray Hill/Kips Bay as the two neighborhoods are divided by Third Avenue or as Kips Bay/Midtown East. There are two large apartment towers named Kips Bay and many business in the neighborhood known as Kips Bay from cinemas, professional offices to a branch of the New York Public Library.
The area is dominated by the institutional buildings of NYU's medical school and attached hospital as well as the rather notorious Bellevue psychiatric hospital.
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