Murray Hill

Manhattan

Murray Hill occupies the East 30s and low 40s between Midtown and Gramercy, a mostly residential stretch of postwar rentals and prewar townhouses. Housing skews small and rental, with studios and one-bedrooms in mid-century elevator buildings making up much of the supply. It is calm, central, and one of the more attainable doorman-building neighborhoods in this part of Manhattan.

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The Lay Of The Land

Murray Hill sits east of Madison Avenue in the 30s and into the low 40s, a quiet residential gap between the offices of Midtown and the brownstone calm of Gramercy. The blocks mix mid-century apartment buildings, older brick townhouses, and a few preserved enclaves like Sniffen Court, and the overall tone is unhurried compared with the neighborhoods around it. It reads as a place people live rather than visit.

The housing leans postwar and rental. Much of the supply is studios and one-bedrooms in elevator buildings, often with a doorman and a laundry room, at rents that tend to run below the West Side and downtown for comparable space. Park and Madison Avenue hold larger prewar co-ops, and Third and Second Avenues carry the bulk of the rental towers.

Transit centers on Grand Central a few blocks north, where the 4, 5, 6, 7, and shuttle converge, with the 6 running locally under Lexington through the heart of the neighborhood. That makes the commute simple even though no line runs through its eastern blocks.

Street life is low-key, built around Third Avenue's bars and restaurants and the everyday retail of Lexington. Murray Hill suits someone early in their time in the city who wants a doorman building and an easy commute without a downtown premium, and who values quiet streets over nightlife at the door.

Market Pulse

What renting in Murray Hill looks like right now, from listings active on Sidewalk.

Median asking rent$4,995/moup $115 vs Oct 2026
Active listings127on Sidewalk today
Days on market34median, listings leaving in the last 90 days
Studio$4,050/mo median1 BR$5,048/mo median2 BR$8,325/mo median3 BR$11,995/mo median4+ BR$40,000/mo median
Median asking rent by bedroom, Jun to NovEach month, the median of what listings on the market that month were asking, from their price history on Sidewalk.
$0$2.5k$5k$7.5k$10k$12.5kJunJulAugSepOctNov
  • Studio$4,050/mo
  • 1 BR$5,048/mo
  • 2 BR$8,283/mo
  • 3+ BR$11,995/mo
  • Hollow: fewer than 5 listings that month

Asking rents among listings active on Sidewalk, updated November 15.

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Buildings In Murray Hill

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