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A map of Upper Manhattan, with Greater Harlem highlighted.Harlem proper is the neighborhood in the center. Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan.The three neighborhoods comprising the greater Harlem area—West, Central, and East Harlem—stretch from the Harlem River and East River to the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington ...
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The wholesale abandonment of housing was so pronounced that between 1976 and 1978 alone, central Harlem lost almost a third of its total population, and east Harlem lost about 27%. [126] The neighborhood no longer had a functioning economy; stores were shuttered and by estimates published in 1971, 60% of the area's economic life depended on the ...
Manhattanville (also known as West Harlem or West Central Harlem) [4] is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan bordered on the north by 135th Street; on the south by 122nd and 125th Streets; on the west by Hudson River; and on the east by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and the campus of City College.
Central Harlem - West 130th-132nd Streets Historic District: May 29, 2018 [8] Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District: June 15, 2021 [9] Hamilton Heights Historic District: November 26, 1974; [10] extension: March 28, 2000 [11] [12] Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District and Extension: June 27, 2000; [13] extension: October 3, 2001 [14]
Le Petit Sénégal is a smaller section of the much larger, and older, neighborhood of Harlem. The neighborhood's exact borders are difficult to define as it is still new, growing from nonexistent in 1985 to 6,500 by 2005. [1] [2] Le Petit Sénégal is generally defined as located in
During the American Revolutionary War, Hessian soldiers "mounted a battery" at the hill "to command the mouth of the Harlem River". [3] Despite the 18th-century local prominence of the Gouverneur Morris family, [4] the name "Mount Morris" for the rocky formation, one of two the Dutch called the Ronde Gerbergte is of 19th-century origin. [5]
July 3: Man opens fire in Central Park, killing a 24-year-old woman and an 80-year-old man before being gunned down by police. [124] New York magazine begins publication. Madison Square Garden (arena) and Performing Garage open. Studio Museum in Harlem and Liberty Plaza Park established. Ford Foundation Building constructed.