Washington Heights, Manhattan

Washington Heights is a neighborhood of New York City in the extreme north of the island of Manhattan. The name comes from Fort Washington, which was there, built on the highest point of Manhattan as a defense in the American War of Independence.

In the south, at 155th Street, Washington Heights borders Harlem and in the north ( Hillside Avenue ) to Inwood. In the West marked the Hudson and the East River and the Harlem Coogan's Bluff the border.

The population consists today mostly of immigrants from the Dominican Republic. The district offers cheaper housing and exits at social advancement happy. There are also areas with significant Jewish populations.

The most representative part of Washington Heights Hudson Heights. It is located on the Hudson River in the northwest of the district. Because of his own character, it is considered quarter in the quarter. In the 1930s, many Jewish German and Austrians moved here, who fled from the Nazis - including Henry Kissinger. Their number was estimated in the 1940s to around 60,000. These emigrants called the quarter "Frankfurt -on-the -Hudson " because so many immigrants from Frankfurt am Main originated, or " Fourth Reich " as an ironic antithesis of Hitler's " Third Reich ".

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