Hamilton Heights

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.

• Fumo Harlem★ 4.5 (1,982) · Italian Restaurant1600 Amsterdam AveWebsite
  0.2 mi away
• Cocina Consuelo★ 4.6 (366)130 Hamilton PlWebsite
  0.2 mi away
• Sofrito★ 4.1 (2,610) · American Restaurant679 Riverside DrWebsite
  0.3 mi away
• Mamasushi★ 4.3 (2,293) · Asian Fusion Restaurant3569 BroadwayWebsite
  0.3 mi away
• The Edge Harlem★ 4.5 (1,570) · Caribbean Restaurant101 Edgecombe AveWebsite
  0.4 mi away
• Harlem Public★ 4.5 (2,275) · American Restaurant3612 BroadwayWebsite
  0.4 mi away

• 523 West 143rd Street