Hamilton Heights
Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood of Harlem in the north of New York City's borough of Manhattan.
Location
Hamilton Heights is part of Manhattan Community Board 9 and is limited by the 135th Street and Manhattanville to the south, and 155th Street and Washington Heights to the north. The Hudson River is the border to the west and Edgecombe Avenue, 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, his last two years of life in today's Hamilton Grange National Memorial spent the beginning of the 19th century, when Hamilton Heights was still outweigh farmland. Most homes in Hamilton Heights date from the time when the railway lines were expanded in the late 19th and early 20th century in the north and the area opened up.
The white population left this relatively upscale residential neighborhood in the 1930s and 1940s and wealthy African-Americans moved to. Here you will find residential building with spacious apartments and town and row houses that are mainly located in the wooded eastern streets of Hamilton Heights, where traditionally wealthy black formation citizens live that fed mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in the town houses of the district. In the 1980s, many Latinos moved to Hamilton Heights - mainly from the Dominican Republic.
After the turn of the millennium, the population changed again: Latinos now make up the majority continued, followed by African Americans, immigrants from the Caribbean and the remnants of the former white population, which since 2005 has led to a strong influx of white gentrification. Today, many actors, artists, teachers and other education citizens in Hamilton Heights live.
Special Places
In Hamilton Heights is home to the City College of New York ( CCNY ), the Dance Theatre 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 the Riverside Park, which extends along the Hudson River over the entire length of Hamilton Heights.
Hamilton Heights has two historic districts, " Hamilton Heights Historic District " and " Sugar Hill Historic District ", both of which have been designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the City of New York.
One of the highest hills in Hamilton Heights rises from the Hudson River at the height of the 155th Street and is home to the Trinity Church Cemetery. Many buildings in this part are listed buildings - such as the Sheppard Hall on the campus of the City College and the building that was once the High School of Music & Art was housed.