22 Facts About Morningside Heights

Morningside Heights is a neighborhood on the West Side of Upper Manhattan in New York City.

Morningside Heights, located on a high plateau between Morningside and Riverside Parks, was hard to access until the late 19th century and was sparsely developed except for the Bloomingdale and Leake and Watts asylums.

Large portion of Morningside Heights is part of the campus of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university.

Morningside Heights contains numerous other educational institutions such as Teachers College, Barnard College, the Manhattan School of Music, Bank Street College of Education, Union Theological Seminary, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Additionally, Morningside Heights includes several religious institutions, including the Cathedral of St John the Divine, Riverside Church, the Church of Notre Dame, Corpus Christi Church, and Interchurch Center.

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The area to the west of the boundary, present-day Morningside Heights, was originally the common lands of British-occupied New York.

Two names eventually gained the most use; "Morningside Heights" was preferred by the two colleges, while "Cathedral Heights" was preferred by St John's and St Luke's.

The first tenements in Morningside Heights were built toward the end of the 1890s and were among the only Old Law Tenements built in the neighborhood.

The majority of Morningside Heights developers were Jewish, although most of these Jewish developers created only a few buildings.

Morningside Heights Inc, headed by David Rockefeller, was the first major joint venture between the neighborhood's institutions.

Residential community of Morningside Heights remained centered around the neighboring institutions, and was relatively safe compared to nearby neighborhoods, though many residents stayed away from Morningside Park.

Morningside Heights is located in Upper Manhattan, bounded by Morningside Park to the east, 125th Street to the north, 110th Street to the south, and Riverside Park to the west.

Residential stock of Morningside Heights is composed of apartment buildings, many of which survive from the neighborhood's early-20th century wave of development.

Non-religious official landmarks in Morningside Heights include Grant's Tomb, a mausoleum for U S president Ulysses S Grant and his wife Julia Grant.

Morningside Heights is on a high plateau, bounded on two sides by parks and on a third by a steep valley.

Morningside Heights Park is located east of Morningside Heights Drive, on the eastern boundary of the neighborhood.

Morningside Heights is patrolled by the 26th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 520 West 126th Street.

Morningside Heights is served by two New York City Fire Department stations.

Primary hospital in Morningside Heights is Mount Sinai Morningside, located on Amsterdam Avenue between 113th and 115th Streets.

Politically, Morningside Heights is in New York's 10th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jerrold Nadler as of 2013.

The Morningside Heights branch moved to a temporary site in 1996, while the Butler Library was being renovated and then relocated into its current building in 2001.

Morningside Heights contains numerous religious institutions, including two architecturally prominent churches.