Murray Hill is a small neighborhood within Flushing

Flushing, Queens

Flushing, founded in 1645, is a neighborhood in the north central part of the City of New York borough of Queens, east of Manhattan.Flushing was one of the first Dutch settlements on Long Island. Today, it is one of the largest and most diverse neighborhoods in New York City...

 in the New York City

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 borough

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 of Queens

Queens

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. Traditionally the home of families of Irish

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 and Italian

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 immigrants, many Korean

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 and Chinese

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 immigrants have since moved into the area in recent years. Murray Hill is often confused with the larger Murray Hill

Murray Hill, Manhattan

Murray Hill is a Midtown Manhattan neighborhood in New York City, USA. Around 1987 many real estate promoters of the neighborhood and newer residents described the boundaries as within East 34th Street, East 42nd Street, Madison Avenue, and the East River; in 1999, Frank P...

 neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan

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.

Before the area was developed for residential housing in 1889, Murray Hill was the location of several large nurseries owned by the King, Murray, and Parsons families. The Kingsland Homestead

Kingsland Homestead

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 has been preserved as the home of the Queens Historical Society

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. The Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden is also located in Murray Hill.

The neighborhood is served by the Murray Hill

Murray Hill (LIRR station)

Murray Hill is a station in the Murray Hill neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens on the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is part of CityTicket...

 station on the Long Island Rail Road

Long Island Rail Road

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's Port Washington Branch

Port Washington Branch

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, offering service to the Woodside

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 station and to Penn Station

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 in Midtown Manhattan

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. Numerous bus lines operate through Murray Hill, providing service to Flushing and the terminus of the IRT Flushing Line

IRT Flushing Line

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 in the New York City Subway

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 system.

Comic strip artist Richard F. Outcault

Richard F. Outcault

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, the creator of The Yellow Kid

The Yellow Kid

The Yellow Kid emerged as the lead character in Hogan's Alley, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, which became one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper, although its graphical layout had already been thoroughly established in political and other, purely-for-entertainment...

and Buster Brown

Buster Brown

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, lived on 147th Street in Murray Hill.