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Rat Rock, also known as Umpire Rock, is an outcrop of Manhattan schist which protrudes from the bedrock in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. It is named after the rats that used to swarm there at night. [1] It is located near the southwest corner of the park, south of the Heckscher Ballfields near the alignments of 62nd Street and Seventh ...
Manhattan schist outcrop in Central Park. In the United States, the Manhattan Prong of the New England Uplands is a smaller belt of ancient rock in southern New York (including Manhattan, the Bronx, and segments of Brooklyn and Staten Island), parts of Westchester County, and upland portions of southwestern Connecticut.
Current region 212: 1947 New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 332, 646, and 917 315: 1947 Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; overlaid by 680. 329: 2023: Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; overlay of 845 332: 2017: New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 212, 646 ...
Yorkville is located in three primary ZIP Codes. From south to north, they are 10075 (between 76th and 80th Streets), 10028 (between 80th and 86th Streets), and 10128 (north of 86th Street). In addition, 500 East 77th Street in Yorkville has its own ZIP Code, 10162. [38] The United States Postal Service operates three post offices in Yorkville:
Blockhouse No. 1, colloquially known as The Blockhouse, is a small fort in the North Woods section of Central Park, Manhattan, New York City.Finished in 1814, the Blockhouse is the second-oldest structure in the park, after Cleopatra's Needle, and the oldest surviving structure originally built within the park site.
Rat Rock is an outcrop of Manhattan schist between 600 and 604 West 114th Street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.The boulder measures approximately 30 feet (9.1 m) high and 100 feet (30 m) long; it is notable as one of the only remaining such rocks remaining in Manhattan's street grid. [1]
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest park in the city , containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors ...
Hidden deep beneath the north end of Cedar Hill runs New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 with its valve chamber, completed in 1993, due to carry some of the city's drinking water in 2020. The slope has been featured prominently in a number of films such as The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) and Enchanted (2007).