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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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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]
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 ...
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]
Shqip; Sicilianu; Simple English; ... Pond, and Harlem Meer. [362] [364] Central Park is a habitat for two amphibian species: the American bullfrog and the green frog
The Manhattan Community Board 10 is a New York City community board encompassing the neighborhoods of Harlem and Polo Grounds in the borough of Manhattan.It is delimited by Fifth Avenue and Mount Morris Park on the east, Central Park on the south, Harlem River drive, Edgecombe Avenue, Saint Nicholas Avenue, the 123rd street and Morningside Avenue on the west, as well as by the Harlem River on ...
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