Morningside Heights

Morningside Heights is a district of the island of Manhattan to New York, close to Upper West Side, Harlem, Riverside Park. It is crossed by the northern part of Broadway.

Morningside Heights is sometimes regarded as being a simple subset of Upper West Side, which covers all the west coast and the North-West of Central Park. The district is called Academic Acropolis , because it is about one of the highest points of Manhattan (on the level of the ground), and he comprises several academic institutions. Its greater portion is actually occupied by the campus of the Université Columbia, which has also other buildings in the vicinity. One also finds there Barnard College (reserved with the young girls), the Seminar of the Theological Union (Union Theological Seminary), the judaïque theological Seminar (Jewish Theological Seminary), the Music school of Manhattan and Bank Street College off Education.

The principal tourist destination is the Cathédrale Saint John the Divine, classified by the Guinness book of the records as being the largest cathedral of the world (knowing that neither the Basilique Saint-Pierre of Rome nor the Basilique Notre Dame of Peace of Yamoussoukro are cathedrals). This colossal religious building, of Style neogothic, was mainly built between 1892 and the Second world war. It is unfinished, and of work began again, in particular in the Années 1990.

The district was the theater of an important battle, known as the “Tops of Harlem”, on September 16th 1776, at the time of the Guerre of Independence.

External bonds

a site of the district with many photographs
air Visit of “morningside heights and harlem” in Photographs
Divine Cathedral Saint John the
Photographs 2006 of the District

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