Hamilton Heights (Manhattan)
Hamilton Heights is a district of Harlem in the north of New York City 's Manhattan borough .
location
Hamilton Heights is part of Manhattan Community Board 9 and is bounded by 135th Street and Manhattanville to the south and 155th Street and Washington Heights to the north. The Hudson River is the western boundary and Edgecombe Avenue is the eastern boundary. The Sugar Hill neighborhood is part of Hamilton Heights.
population
The area takes its name from Alexander Hamilton , one of the founding fathers of the United States , who spent the last two years of his life in what is now the Hamilton Grange National Memorial in the early 19th century , when Hamilton Heights was mostly farmland. Most of the houses in Hamilton Heights date from when the railroad lines were expanded north in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, opening up the area.
The white population left this relatively posh neighborhood in the 1930s and 1940s and wealthy African Americans followed suit. Here you will find residential buildings with spacious apartments as well as townhouses and townhouses, which are mainly located in the tree-lined eastern streets of Hamilton Heights, where traditionally wealthy black educated citizens live, who mainly moved into the townhouses of the district in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, many Latinos moved to Hamilton Heights - especially from the Dominican Republic .
After the turn of the millennium, the resident population changed again: Latinos still make up the majority today, followed by Afro-Americans, immigrants from the Caribbean and remnants of the former white population, although gentrification has led to a large influx of whites since 2005. Today, many actors, artists, teachers, and other educated people live in Hamilton Heights.
special locations
Hamilton Heights is home to the City College of New York (CCNY), the Dance Theater of Harlem , The Harlem School of the Arts, and Aaron Davis Hall. The neighborhood has several parks such as the recently created Riverbank State Park , nestled in Riverside Park , which stretches along the Hudson River for the entire length of Hamilton Heights.
Hamilton Heights has two historic districts, the Hamilton Heights Historic District and the Sugar Hill Historic District, both of which have been designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York City.
One of the highest peaks in Hamilton Heights rises from the Hudson River at 155th Street and is home to Trinity Church Cemetery . Many buildings in this section are listed buildings - such as Sheppard Hall on the City College campus and the building that once housed the High School of Music & Art .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Kenneth T. Jackson (1995): The Encyclopedia of New York City. New York Historical Society ; Yale University Press . P. 519f
