The Lay Of The Land
Morningside Heights sits on high ground above the Hudson, and its layout follows the institutions that built it: Columbia, Barnard, Teachers College and the Manhattan School of Music occupy most of the blocks between Broadway and Amsterdam, and Riverside Park and Morningside Park frame the neighborhood on either side. Grant's Tomb stands at 122nd Street, and Riverside Drive curves along the park with the George Washington Bridge in the distance.
The apartment stock is prewar and substantial. Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue are lined with elevator buildings from the 1900s through the 1920s, with large rooms, high ceilings, formal foyers and river views from the upper floors. Broadway and Amsterdam have six-story walk-ups and smaller elevator buildings above the storefronts. A significant share of the housing is university-owned and rented to faculty and staff, which keeps turnover in the open market lower than in neighborhoods to the south.
Broadway is the commercial spine: bookstores, diners, bagel shops and cafes that keep student hours, with the Columbia gates at 116th Street as the crossroads. Restaurants and bars line Amsterdam Avenue, and the campus lawns and library steps are open to the public most days.
The 1 train stops at 110th Street, 116th Street and 125th Street on Broadway, and the B and C stop at 110th and 116th on the east side of Morningside Park. Riverside Park's paths run south to 72nd Street and north to the bridge, and Central Park's northwest corner is at 110th and Central Park West.
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