Named for Philip Embury (1728-1775), a preacher who helped bring Methodism to the United States. Born in Ireland to German parents, Embury immigrated to New York in 1760. Spurred on by fellow Irish Methodist immigrant Barbara Heck, he established the first Methodist congregation in the American colonies – or at least the first in Manhattan; preacher Robert Strawbridge was operating at the same time in Maryland. This neighborhood has mostly alphabetical streets (except for “J”) that are mostly named for notable Methodists, as Pacific Palisades founder Charles H. Scott was a Methodist pastor himself.
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