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	Morningside Heights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and is bound by the Upper West Side, Morningside Park, Harlem, and Riverside Park (some now consider it part of the Upper West Side).
		Streets marking its edges are 110th and 123rd Streets, Riverside Drive, and Morningside Drive (some define the southern edge as being 106th St., and a few place it as far south as 100th St.).
		On 1776 September 16, the Battle of Harlem Heights was fought in Morningside Heights, with the most intense fighting occurring in a sloping wheat field that is now the location of Barnard College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morningside_Heights (419 words)

	Centers for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods
		Morningside Heights Park is a 10.42-acre city park located at the west end of Broad St., behind Edward Smith School in the University section of Syracuse.
		Morningside Heights Park was established in 1938, when the City purchased a piece of land from the adjacent Morningside Cemetery.
		By 1939, the new Morningside Park boasted a toboggan slide, skiing and coasting hill and skating pond (in the south portion of the park), all lighted for night use.
	www.takeahike.org /morningside.shtml (1412 words)

	Morningside Heights Stepping Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Morningside Heights Walking Tour brochure is produced by the Morningside Area Alliance, a membership organization of educational, religious, and cultural institutions located in Morningside Heights.
		The Morningside Heights Walking Tour brochure with its map of Morningside Heights, self-guided tour and descriptions of the institutions will be available at the institutions or by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Morningside Area Alliance, 90 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027.
		Morningside Heights is bordered to the east and west by Morningside and Riverside Parks, respectively, and to the north and south by 125th and 110th Sts.
	www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu /cu/pr/96/18876.html (270 words)

	Morningside Heights Historic District Committee
		WORKING to bring Landmark designation and protection to the 'acropolis' of New York, Morningside Heights Historic District Committee is a non-profit community group formed in June 1996 to preserve the Heights' architectural heritage -- 110th St. north to Tiemann Place, including Riverside and Morningside Parks.
		Morningside Heights Historic District Committee initiates a bi-monthly report on our efforts to gain landmark designation for this extraordinary neighborhood.
		First target areas: Given the Heights' broad scope and the extraordinary density of the first built historic fabric (almost no non-contributing buildings), as well as complex institutional considerations, the Morningside Heights Historic District will be designated sequentially:
	www.preserve.org /mhhd/mhhd.htm (174 words)

	Morningside Heights
		It is the late 1990s, and Morningside Heights, the neighborhood in upper Manhattan near Columbia University, is experiencing growing pains.
		While the rougher parts of town to the north and east of Morningside Heights, along with the shady characters who hang out on the benches on Broadway, have tended to hold the truly wealthy at bay, the Braithwaites are learning that it is hard to keep a neighborhood in stasis.
		Nonetheless "Morningside Heights" is the first in a trilogy, and once readers have turned its last pages, they will probably already be curious about the next installment.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /september_2003/heights.html (337 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Morningside Heights at Epinions.com
		He moves to Morningside Heights to the recently vacated apartment across from Anne and Charles and proceeds to re-integrate himself into their lives, sometimes with mixed results.
		While the characters' lives are very different, their neighborhood of Morningside Heights and parts of each of their lives touch, and you as the reader never lose sight of the connections.
		Their lives are as much a part of the Morningside Heights neighborhood as they are of each others.
	www.epinions.com /content_108143742596 (1261 words)

	Encyclopedia: Morningside Heights
		Morningside Park is a New York City public park located at the east edge of Morningside Heights.
		Other landmarks in Morningside Heights include the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Grant's Tomb, The Riverside Church, The Interchurch Center, International House, and St. Luke's Hospital.
		The Battle of Harlem Heights was a skirmish in the New York Campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Morningside-Heights (1217 words)

	Preserving St. John the Divine
		Refreshingly, a larger group of Morningside Heights residents has organized their own petition drive to alert elected officials to the fact that sensible development on the cathedral grounds would improve the land and cathedral at the same time.
		But in Morningside Heights, neighborhood residents quickly mobilized to fight to preserve what they argue is much needed urban open space, though the land in question behind those barbed-wire fences is occupied by parking lots, a security guard's tower, a tangled knot of trees and two large and unsightly aluminum stonecutter's sheds.
		Morningside Drive between 110th and 113th Streets provides precisely that type of area where public and private spaces "ooze into each other." Toward the east is Morningside Park, where poplar trees shade verdant meadows that slope down toward two baseball fields.
	www.startsandfits.com /divine.html (3282 words)

	Morningside Heights; A History of Its Architecture and Development; Andrew S. Dolkart
		His history of Morningside Heights is a magnificent work of scholarship that grows out of a true love of urbanism and a profound respect for the contribution of architects and developers, whether high-minded or not-so, to the vitality of place."
		Morningside Heights, the institutional heart of New York City, is also one of the city's most architecturally distinguished neighborhoods.
		The high plateau that forms Morningside Heights is geographically isolated within the city and remained largely undeveloped even as neighboring Harlem and the Upper West Side became prestigious residential communities.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023107/0231078501.HTM (658 words)

	Columbia University School of General Studies Viewbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Columbia's move from midtown in the late 19th century to a nearly barren heights in northwestern Manhatten must have seemed fitting to observers of the singular behavior and rituals of the American college student.
		Even as Columbia was springing up on Morningside Heights, so too were Teachers College and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, both of which broke ground soon after Columbia did in the late 1890s.
		Morningside Heights consequently became Manhattan’s first neighborhood whose original residential dwelling was not the single-family home but the multi-family apartment house.
	www.gs.columbia.edu /viewbook/campus.htm (641 words)

	Morningside Heights -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Streets marking its edges are 110th and 123rd Streets, (Click link for more info and facts about Riverside Drive) Riverside Drive, and Morningside Drive.
		On 1776 September 16, the (Click link for more info and facts about Battle of Harlem Heights) Battle of Harlem Heights was fought in Morningside Heights, with the most intense fighting occurring in a sloping wheat field that is now the location of Barnard College.
		Important issues affecting the neighborhood include the construction caused by the constant expansion of (A university in New York City) Columbia University, and the gradual gentrification of the area, which is driving out small businesses.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/morningside_heights.htm (401 words)

	Morningside Heights
		Around the turn of the century, Morningside Heights was dubbed "The Acropolis of New York." It's a neighborhood dominated by its institutions, including Columbia University, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Luke's Hospital, Grant's Tomb, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the Manhattan School of Music.
		The Geography: Morningside Heights is a plateau, separated from the rest of Manhattan by a steep rise on the west side and a sheer cliff on the east.
		Since Morningside Heights had never been extensively developed prior to the 1900s, there are no tenements in the area -- nearly all of the neighborhood's residential housing consists of apartments for the affluent.
	www.covehurst.net /nyc/morningside.html (1261 words)

	Manhattan Neighborhood
		Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill, with early examples of high-rise buildings, classic townhouses and brownstones, are quiet sections.
		Running from 110th Street to 123rd Street, from Morningside Park to the Hudson River, this neighborhood is a center of higher education, home to Columbia University, Barnard College, Teacher's College, Bank Street College, Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, and the Manhattan School of Music.
		Morningside Park lies along the eastern edge of the neighborhood.
	www.rsnyrealty.com /Neighborhood/neighborhood.cfm (3327 words)

	Building Morningside Heights
		In this excerpt from Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development (Columbia University Press), Dolkart, who is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Architecture, moves beyond the campus to consider residential development in Morningside Heights.
		In 1898, John Paterno began construction on two of the earliest apartment houses on Morningside Heights, a pair of modest structures at 505 and 507 West 112th Street (demolished).
		The Paternos were active on Morningside Heights during the entire span of apartment house development in the area, beginning with John Paterno's modest apartment buildings on 112th Street in 1898 and ending with Joseph Paterno's enormous 1924 building at 425 Riverside Drive.
	www.college.columbia.edu /cct/win99/36.html (1171 words)

	Housing the Columbia Community
		In fact, as soon as the Morningside Heights move was announced, the alumni declared their hope that a dormitory would be the first building erected.
		In 1898, there were very few residential buildings on Morningside Heights, since the large-scale construction of residential buildings in the neighborhood did not occur until after the subway opened in 1904, By 1900, there were 65 row houses on Morningside Heights, and a handful of apartment buildings, most quite modest.
		The changing character of the Morningside Heights neighborhood was of great concern to the area's institutions, which had enormous investments in property and infrastructure and legitimately feared that they would have trouble attracting students, faculty, and staff if the surrounding neighborhood was perceived as dangerous and deteriorating.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /cuhistory/archives/housing.htm (5575 words)

	Columbia University may now be considered a steward of an evolving Morningside Heights with the recent completion and ...
		Columbia University may now be considered a steward of an evolving Morningside Heights with the recent completion and publishing of Columbia University in Morningside Heights: A Planning Framework.
		From Morningside Park to Riverside Park and from West 106th Street to West 130th Street, the study encompasses the heart of Morningside Heights and the core of the Columbia campus.
		Members of the consulting team and University administrators regularly convened with a specially-appointed Working Group, including members of the Morningside Heights community, to establish a foundation for intelligent, creative and sensitive decision-making regarding all aspects of the built and natural environments that Columbia is responsible for in Morningside Heights.
	www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu /cu/pr/96_99/19546.htm (669 words)

	Morningside Heights:
		Students on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus gathered to oppose an institution they viewed as racist, imperialistic, and authoritarian; the school represented the old order of society that still dominated American institutions.
		It was obvious to anyone connected with Morningside Heights and Columbia that growth would undoubtedly create tension between the school and its neighbors.
		The battle in Morningside Heights for some was distant, if not impossible, but for others it was imminent.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~histclub/lawrencebond2.html (5894 words)

	Library Journal - The Trollope of the Upper West Side
		With her fiction debut, Morningside Heights (see review on p.123), Mendelson evocatively renders the Upper West Side neighborhood that has been her home for 12 years.
		It is no accident that Morningside Heights, with its multiple characters and plot lines, has the feel of a densely textured 19th-century novel.
		With Morningside Heights, she wants readers to connect with her characters' struggles to trust and hold on to their core values.
	www.libraryjournal.com /article/CA289161.html (700 words)

	Columbia Daily Spectator - April 12, 2004
		At least 600 children and their parents showed up for Saturday's annual Easter egg hunt in Morningside Park, surpassing the organizers' expectations and giving them hope that Morningside Park, once considered the most dangerous park in Manhattan, might be experiencing a renaissance.
		Joyce Hopper has lived in Morningside Heights since the 1960s, and she said the park has always been important to her.
		Friends of Morningside Park is indeed planning more events, like a film festival this summer.
	www.morningsidepark.org /news/cs20040412.php (730 words)

	Morningside Heights
		With this issue, the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee initiates a bi-monthly report on our efforts to gain landmark designation for this extraordinary neighborhood.
		The Heights, with its tremendous cultural reach, belongs actively engaged within the nation's historic preservation effort.
		Visitors to the Heights, students from around the world, NYC walkers can now glance directly at the rich array of early century styles.
	www.preserve.org /mhhd/morning.htm (764 words)

	Time Out New York [features] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By walking this diverse, uptown route through Morningside Heights, you'll get a good sense of one of the things people love most about New York: that a walk of a couple of hours can reveal so many faces and places, traditions and tastes along the way.
		You'll be charmed by the dozens of bronze animal sculptures, made by children and stationed on the railings at the bronze fountain's base.
		Rachel Wetzsteon, a resident of Morningside Heights and a native New Yorker, is a Columbia University Ph.D., author of two books of poetry and a professor at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ.
	www.timeoutny.com /features/301/301.ft.morningside.html (1304 words)

	Morningside Heights Apartments - Find an Apartment in Manhattan at 4WallsInNYC.com
		Morningside Heights is a gritty neighborhood that's home to Columbia University (the region's biggest landlord), Barnard College, the Manhattan School of Music and two prestigious religious seminaries.
		The presence of the academic community has been responsible for much of the improvement in the neighborhood, particularly of Morningside Park and the 10 blocks south of Columbia's campus.
		Broadway is Morningside Heights' main street and you'll find coffee shops, bookstores, bars and a wide range of restaurants here.
	www.4wallsinnyc.com /morningsideheightsapartments.htm (125 words)

	Morningside Park Restoration
		Morningside Park is historic because it was designed by the great Frederick Law Olmstead, America's greatest park designer, and is the one park he designed that most closely resembles his original design.
		In 1998, the Dr. Thomas Kiel Arboretum was planted and the bluestone steps and paths at 116th Street and Morningside Avenue renovated.
		A park ranger program at Morningside Park would enhance the perception of safety, help the creation of environmental programs and lead the upgrade of the pond area.
	www.morningside-heights.net /fomp.htm (800 words)

	The Body: New York: Central Harlem-Morningside Heights HIV/AIDS Rates Surge to Highest in NYC
		A report from New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows that the combined neighborhoods of Morningside Heights and Central Harlem have the highest HIV rates of 42 neighborhoods surveyed throughout the city's five boroughs.
		Health experts caution, however, that circumstances are different in Morningside Heights and Central Harlem.
		The Chelsea-Clinton neighborhood -- last year's HIV leader -- ranked closely behind Morningside Heights-Central Harlem in its infection rate, yet its death rate was barely a third that of Morningside Heights-Central Harlem.
	www.thebody.com /cdc/news_updates_archive/2003/nov13_03/nyc_harlem_hiv.html (391 words)

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