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Hudson Heights, Manhattan
Hudson Heights is a residential neighborhood with an abundance of apartment buildings and towers, located within the Washington Heights area of Upper Manhattan, New York City. Many of the buildings are cooperatives, and most were constructed in the 1920s and 1930s. The Art Deco style is prominent, along with Tudor Revival. Notable complexes include Hudson View Gardens and Castle Village.
As its name implies, the neighborhood is located on a high area overlooking the Hudson River. It includes the highest natural point in Manhattan, located in Bennett Park. At above sea level, it is a few dozen feet lower than the torch on the Statue of Liberty.〔("Bennett Park" ) New York City Parks and Recreation Department website. Retrieved June 22, 2010.〕
==Boundaries and geography==
Like many New York City neighborhoods, the boundaries of Hudson Heights are not precise.〔Neighborhoods in New York City do not have official status, and their boundaries are not specifically set by the city. (There are a number of Community Boards, whose boundaries are officially set, but these are fairly large and generally contain a number of neighborhoods, and the (neighborhood map ) issued by the Department of City Planning only shows the largest ones.) Because of this, the definition of where neighborhoods begin and end is subject to a variety of forces, including the efforts of real estate concerns to promote certain areas, the use of neighborhood names in media news reports, and the everyday usage of people.〕 One definition has it bounded by the Hudson River to the west, Broadway to the east, 173rd Street to the south, and Fort Tryon Park to the north,〔Harris, Elizabeth A. (Map included in "An Aerie Straight Out of the Deco Era" ) ''New York Times'' (October 16, 2009). Retrieved June 22, 2010.〕〔Wisloski, Jess ("Close-Up on Hudson Heights" ) ''The Village Voice'' (February 14, 2004). Retrieved June 22, 2010.〕〔("Hot Guide 2009. Hudson Heights: 173rd Street to Fort Tryon Park, West of Broadway" ) Retrieved June 22, 2010.〕〔 but another would limit the neighborhood to the top of the high ridge which physically separates it from the rest of Washington Heights. By this definition, Hudson Heights is bounded in the west by the Henry Hudson Parkway, in the east by Fort Washington Avenue, in the south by West 181st Street and in the north by Fort Tryon Park.〔("Manhattan apartments at a discount: Hudson Heights" ) ''New York (magazine)'' (September 17, 2001)〕 The ridge the neighborhood sits on overlooks the river to the west and the Broadway valley to the east.
Using the more restrictive boundaries, the neighborhood's main north-south thoroughfares are Fort Washington Avenue (two-way), Pinehurst Avenue (one way south) and Cabrini Boulevard (formerly Northern Avenue, one way north). Riverside Drive runs intermittently along the bottom of the ridge to the west, while Bennett Avenue and Overlook Terrace do the same on the east, with Overlook Avenue climbing to the top of the ridge at West 190th Street. The east-west streets are all numbered, from West 181st Street to West 190th Street, but none of those streets, with the exception of West 181st at the southern end of the ridge, cross all the way through the neighborhood: they are all interrupted at one point or another, which makes navigation of the area difficult for those not familiar with its peculiarities.
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