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Our History. We were born a century earlier on February 8, , when the Kips Bay Neighborhood Association met to discuss the problem of roving gangs of boys disturbing the neighborhood. The Association resolved to create a Boys Club to address the problem and help the boys in the neighborhood.
In the first year, a few volunteers took regular turns mentoring boys while organizing recreational activities for them, such as boxing matches and games. Expanding the flagship headquarters, now the Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse, in and to accommodate growing membership and to add a swimming pool and an auditorium, and again in the s to add many of the large and varied athletic facilities that are there today.
Or Mr. Some are obvious, like the Navy Yard that is a navy yard. But the stories of how most of the neighborhoods where we live, work and play got their names offer an unexpected peek into New York City history. Murray Hill. This neighborhood was once the property of Robert Murray, a wealthy eighteenth century merchant who owned a mansion that sat atop a hill, at the intersection of what is now 33rd Street and Park Avenue.
The Murray family referred to the location as Inclenberg Hill, but neighbors perhaps envious of the Murray home preferred Murray Hill. The family also owned a nearby farm which stretched from their home north to what is now 39th Street.
The house burnt down in , and the hill leveled to make way for urbanization, but the name stuck. When the Dutch arrived in the 17th century and claimed New Amsterdam now called New York , Jacobus Hendrickson Kip founded a farm that ran north of what is now 30th Street, and east to the river.
There were plans to build additional above-water apartments, offices, and a hotel in the s, but environmental concerns and community opposition doomed the project. The park includes a small man-made land mass extending out into the East River, which was created from excess cement dumped into the river. Skip to content. Search for:. Share This Page. Putnam began the evacuation, but was slowed by a lack of transportation and British control of the Hudson River. On the morning of September 15, British General William Howe attacked the vulnerable American center before they completed their work.
As British ships in the Hudson created a diversion on the opposite side of Manhattan, 4, British and German troops in eighty-four flatboats rowed towards Kip's Bay from Long Island. The warships unleashed a thunderous naval barrage on Captain William Douglas's green, man Connecticut militia regiment, deployed in a shallow trench.
Douglas's militia broke under the onslaught and panic spread to nearby units as waves of British troops landed largely unopposed. Howe's troops fanned out to the north and south as the American center collapsed. Washington, four miles away in Harlem when he heard the firing, quickly rode to the scene and was dismayed by the militia's flight.
He and Putnam unsuccessfully tried to halt the stampede and rally the men behind stone walls, but they continued to stream past. Washington angrily shouted at them and even struck some with the flat of his sword to no effect. With Hessian troops only eighty yards away, Washington's aides led him to safety while Putnam frantically rode to New York to save his command.
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