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Morningside Heights is the academic quarter of New
York City. It stretches irregularly from north of 96th Street to about 123rd Street between Morningside Park and Riverside
Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. From the top of a 135-foot bluff, it overlooks the Hudson River on one side and
Harlem on the other. It is about 15 minutes from midtown Manhattan by subway. With apartments on the "Gold Coast" of Riverside
Drive routinely selling for well over $1,000,000, the Heights is one of the more desirable residential neighborhoods in Manhattan.
There is also alot of new construction activilty taking place in Morningside Heights. The Ariel, two residential towers across
the street from each other at 99th & Broadway are being erected. One tower will be 31 stories tall and have 73 units, the
other will be 37 stories tall and have 65 units. A new condo is being erected at 110th and Broadway. Columbia University has
been building new luxury buildings along Broadway offering housing to it's professors. Morningside Heights is currently home
to about 35,000 people, and over the years has housed a long list of famous individuals as well as world-renowned institutions,
including:
- Columbia University - Barnard College - Union Theological Seminary - Jewish Theological Seminary -
Bank St. College of Education - Manhattan School of Music - Cathedral of St. John the Divine
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