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Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
The Manhattan Community Board 12 is a New York City community board for the neighborhoods of Inwood and Washington Heights in the borough of Manhattan. It is delimited by the Harlem River on the east and on the north, the Hudson River on the west and 155th Street on the south.
At least three people, including an elderly woman with Alzheimer's and her two adult children, were killed in a raging housefire early Sunday morning in Bayside, Queens.
From 2003 to 2013, the district included all of Staten Island and the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and Gravesend in Brooklyn. Most of the territory in the old 13th district is now in New York's 11th congressional district. 2013–present: Parts of Manhattan, The Bronx
A 16-year-old boy has been charged for his role in Deaza Barkley's Feb. 15 murder inside of a Jamaica, Queens home, according to cops. NYC girl, 17, gave class presentation on gun violence before ...
District 10 covers the northernmost neighborhoods of Manhattan, including Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill. [4]The district overlaps with Manhattan Community Board 12 and, because of Marble Hill (politically part of Manhattan but geographically part of the Bronx), Bronx Community Boards 7 and 8.
Pelham also designed another apartment building in the neighborhood, The Pinehurst, which was built in 1907 at the corner of Fort Washington Avenue and West 180th Street. [7] Pelham's son, George F. Pelham Jr., was the architect of Castle Village, a Hudson Heights neighbor of Hudson View Gardens across Cabrini Avenue, which was built in 1938. [6]