Kips Bay
East 25th Street North to East 28th Street. East of 5th Avenue.
Nearby Subways 6

Kips Bay in Manhattan is often considered to be the area between 23rd Street and 34th Street extending from the East River to Third Avenue. Often Kips Bay is linked to neighboring regions such as Murray Hill, Midtown East, or Gramercy.

Kips Bay was named after the Dutch settler Jacobus Kip, whose farm ran north of 30th Street to the East River, around a bay in the East River which was named after him. The bay became reclaimed land, yet "Kips Bay" remains in the name of the area. Kip built a large stone house, which today would have been located near the intersection of Second Avenue and 35th Street. The house stood from 1655 to 1851. It was the last farmhouse from New Amsterdam remaining in the city.

Within Kips Bay, the area along First Avenue is dominated by the institutional buildings of New York University, including the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU College of Dentistry, NYU School of Medicine, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center teaching hospital, and the Manhattan VA Hospital. Further north on First Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets is the former Kips Bay Brewing Company, originally constructed in 1895 and now occupied by offices.

Since the late 1990s, the area has been best recognized by a commercial strip mall on 2nd Avenue between 30th and 33rd Streets, set back from the street by a driveway running parallel to 2nd Avenue. This group of stores is referred to as "Kips Bay Plaza" and consists of an AMC/Loews movie theater, a Borders bookstore, a Crunch Fitness center, and a 24-hour Rite Aid pharmacy.