Marble Hill
Marble Hill is the district more in north of the Borough of Manhattan to New York. It is separated from the remainder of Manhattan by the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in 1895 to connect two portions of the Rivière of Harlem, while cutting one of its meanders, which at the time had made of Marble Hill an island. In 1914, the old bed of the river was filled, by physically attaching the district to the Bronx.
It followed a quarrel between the two boroughs for the administration of this territory. When in 1939, a judge decided that Marble Hill was always legally part of Manhattan, the president of Bronx stated that they were the " Sudètes of Bronx" , thus referring to the annexation by Hitler, in 1938, of the Czechoslovakia.
Marble Hill draws her name from an important layer of Marbre under the hill. One formerly worked mines there to extract from the stones of construction.
The district is served by the subway of New York (225th Street-Marble Hill station), and by the suburban trains of the Subway-North Railroad' S Hudson Line which stop in Marble Hill train station.
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