Hamilton Heights

Manhattan

Hamilton Heights runs from 125th Street north to 155th, west of St. Nicholas Avenue to the Hudson, on the bluff above Riverbank State Park. It is known for its rowhouses: brownstone and limestone blocks along Convent Avenue, Hamilton Terrace and the streets around City College's Gothic campus, with prewar apartment buildings on Broadway and Riverside Drive. The 1 at 137th and 145th and the A, B, C and D at 145th are the trains.

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The Lay Of The Land

Hamilton Heights takes its name from Alexander Hamilton's house, the Grange, which stands in St. Nicholas Park, and its character from the rowhouses built around it in the 1890s and 1900s. Convent Avenue, Hamilton Terrace and the numbered streets between 140th and 145th hold some of the most intact brownstone and limestone blocks in Manhattan, many with original stoops, bay windows and cornices. Sugar Hill, the blocks around Edgecombe Avenue near 145th, adds Art Deco and Renaissance Revival apartment houses.

The housing splits between rowhouses and apartment buildings. Rowhouses are often divided into floor-through apartments with high ceilings, decorative fireplaces and original woodwork. Broadway, Amsterdam and Riverside Drive carry six-story prewar elevator buildings with classic layouts, and Manhattanville to the south, along 125th Street and Broadway, has newer development around Columbia's expanded campus.

City College's campus of Gothic stone buildings occupies the center of the neighborhood, and its lawns and terraces are open. Riverbank State Park, built on a platform over the Hudson at 145th Street, has a pool, a rink, track and fields with river views. St. Nicholas Park drops down the hillside to the east, and Broadway supplies restaurants, bakeries and groceries.

The 1 stops at 137th Street and 145th Street on Broadway, the A, B, C and D at 145th Street on St. Nicholas Avenue, and the A and C at 155th. The Hudson Parkway is at the end of the block for drivers, and the trip to Midtown on the A express runs about twenty minutes.

Market Pulse

What renting in Hamilton Heights looks like right now, from listings active on Sidewalk.

Median asking rent$4,450/moup $650 vs Oct 2026
Active listings21on Sidewalk today
Days on market44median, listings leaving in the last 90 days
Studio$2,895/mo median1 BR$3,372/mo median2 BR$4,568/mo median3 BR$4,848/mo median4+ BR$6,200/mo median
Median asking rent by bedroom, Jun to NovEach month, the median of what listings on the market that month were asking, from their price history on Sidewalk.
$0$1k$2k$3k$4k$5kJunOctNov
  • Studio$2,995/mo
  • 1 BR$3,195/mo
  • 2 BR$4,532/mo
  • 3+ BR$4,995/mo
  • Hollow: fewer than 5 listings that month

Asking rents among listings active on Sidewalk, updated November 14.

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