Manhattan Valley is a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west. The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The City of New York Central Park West (CPW is an avenue that runs north-south in the New York City borough of Manhattan, in the United States. 96th Street is a major two-way street in East and West Harlem which is a part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from the East River Broadway, as the name implies is a wide avenue in New York City. [2] It was formerly known as the Bloomingdale District, and is still occasionally so called.
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Geography
Manhattan Valley occupies a natural depression running east-west across Manhattan, declining rapidly from high rocky bluffs at the western border of modern Central Park, and following west the valley created by what was once a minor stream draining from roughly the area of the Harlem Meer into the Hudson River. Central Park is a large public Urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually Harlem Meer ("Meer" is Dutch for "Lake" occupies the northeast corner of New York City 's Central Park, in a section of park that was added to The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami [3]
Many sources consider the southern boundary of Manhattan Valley to be West 100th Street, but a less natural division preferred by community groups extends the area south to West 96th Street, a major thoroughfare which runs in its own natural valley and provides crosstown access through Central Park. The distinction is largely semantic, however, since the area from West 100th to 97th Street is comprised of superblocks occupied by a Title I "towers in a park" housing development, and thus is more a "buffer zone" than housing smoothly integrated into the neighborhoods to the north or south. A city block, urban block or simply block is a central element of Urban planning and Urban design. A tower block, block of flats, or apartment block, is a multi-unit High-rise Apartment building.
Broadway and Central Park West are the busiest north/south thoroughfares through the neighborhood. Others include, west to east, Amsterdam Avenue, Columbus Avenue, and Manhattan Avenue. Tenth Avenue / Amsterdam Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Ninth Avenue / Columbus Avenue is a southbound thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Manhattan Avenue is the name of two streets in New York City Brooklyn Manhattan Avenue is the major shopping street in Greenpoint Brooklyn. The former two extend through the entirety of the Upper West Side (and beyond). The last originates at 100th Street and proceeds north into Harlem.
In addition to the superblocks below West 100th Street, the area bordered by Amsterdam Avenue, West 100th Street, Manhattan Avenue, and West 104th Street is also a single superblock, transected only by Columbus Avenue. All other streets in the neighborhood proceed in an uninterrupted grid.
History
The neighborhood's original name of Bloomingdale District derived from the Blooming Dale Road, presumably named for the florescence in the well-watered valley, built in the early 16th century roughly along the path of modern-day Broadway. Many of the early landmarks in the area acquired the name, but it was the nearby Bloomingdale Mental Asylum, which in the 19th century occupied roughly the same location as the present-day Columbia University in Morningside Heights, that probably most influenced the area's early nomenclature. A psychiatric hospital (previously called insane asylum, mental hospital; or derogatorily looney bin, nut house or Funny Farm) is The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City and is chiefly known as the home of institutions such as Barnard [3]
Early development in the 1870s and 1880s focused on institutional care for the ill or aged, and included the Hebrew Home for the Aged, the Catholic Old Age Home and the Home for Aged Indigent Respectable Females, as well as the Towers Nursing Home constructed as a cancer ward by John Jacob Astor III in 1884. Events and Trends Technology The invention of the prototype telephone by Alexander G Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of Electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered John Jacob Astor III ( June 10, 1822 &ndash February 22, 1890) was the elder son of William Backhouse Astor Sr Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year [4] These were located primarily to take advantage of the ample area needed by institutions of substance, and together with the Lion Brewery, gave the area its earliest landmarks. Lion Brewing was a Brewery operating in New York City from 1850 to 1944
The neighborhood only began to fill out residentially, however, at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, when first the IRT Ninth Avenue Line in 1870 and then the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line in 1904 allowed the public ready access to uptown Manhattan. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated, was the first Elevated railway in New York City, first opened in 1868 as the Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the Seventh Avenue Line) is a New York City Subway line Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Columbia's purchase of the asylum's property at around the same time as the Broadway line's arrival made the neighborhood a more palatable milieu as well.
This area was populated mostly by Irish and German immigrants in the 1930s through 1950s. Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánach are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Young boys and girls took advantage of Central Park and Riverside Drive or played stick ball and roller hockey in the streets. Riverside Drive is a scenic north-south thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The 1950s saw many immigrants from Puerto Rico took up residence in the Upper West Side and a proposed project to eliminate the older brownstone apartments began to drive earlier residents moving to the suburbs. Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}}
The area went into decline in the 1950's and 1960s, mirroring a general urban deterioration in Manhattan which saw flight from the central city into the surrounding suburbs. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. The acute problems in Manhattan Valley began then as well, when several city blocks were demolished under Robert Moses's urban renewal programs to construct the Frederick Douglass Houses in the superblock where they stand today. Robert Moses ( December 18 1888 – July 29 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14 1818 February 20 1895 was an American abolitionist, editor, Orator Rampant graft and corruption associated with the project, however, blighted their opening and brought ill repute on the neighborhood, and the debacle contributed strongly to Moses's fall from power and ouster. [3] Two decades of general malaise settled over progress in the neighborhood.
But with the Wall Street boom in the early 1980s, Manhattan as a whole experienced a sharp recovery. Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Seventy years after the Bloomingdale Asylum's closing, the provenance of the name was fading into obscurity, and residents and brokers alike began referring to the neighborhood by its present name. [5] The new name and recovery were both much bolstered by the foundation in 1968 of the non-profit Manhattan Valley Development Corporation. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It sought to differentiate itself from other community development organizations by opposing the demolition of pre-war buildings in favor of renovation, and seeking to promote small business and "prevent harassment by out-side management companies prevalent in low income 'minority' neighborhoods. "[6]
Wavering property prices in the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the rise of crack use and dealers in the area, brought a halt to new investment, and the nightlife in the area stagnated in the face of crime; Manhattan Valley earned a reputation as one of the easiest places in the city to score a hit. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Crack cocaine or crack is a solid smokable form of Cocaine. It is a freebase form of cocaine that can be made using baking soda ( Sodium bicarbonate [7]
Modern Developments
Manhattan Valley has gentrified significantly since the 1980s, along with the rest of the Upper West Side and Harlem, under steady encroachment north from the "traditional" Upper West Side and south from Morningside Heights. Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center [8] Coinciding with this transition, the Columbus/Amsterdam Business Improvement District organized in the late 1990s to develop stronger business presence along the main thoroughfares of Columbus and Amsterdam, and to provide entrepreneurial opportunities to locals. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999
While Broadway still provides most retail shopping opportunities, Amsterdam Avenue has emerged as a major contender in local nightlife with a glut of six bars in the two blocks from West 110th Street 108th Street. These join the Ding-Dong Lounge on Columbus. The renaissance has much to do with increased migration of Columbia and Barnard College students south as Morningside Heights venues become increasingly expensive. Barnard College is a women's liberal arts college founded in 1889
Brokers report the properties in the area remain up to thirty percent less expensive than comparable Upper West Side neighborhoods. [9] The neighborhood's proximity to the much-valued Central Park as well as to three separate subway lines make it attractive to young commuters, and prices are rising dramatically as New Yorkers are "tipped off" by their brokers. [8] Many historical brownstones and townhouses were saved by the Manhattan Valley Development Corporation (MVDC) from demolition, particularly east of Columbus Avenue, where the property values are the highest.
Landmarks
- Frederick Douglass Circle, West 110th Street and Central Park West
- Towers Condominium, "The Dakota of the North,"[4] West 105th Street and Central Park West
- Sing & Sing Market, locally called "Sing-Sing" after the New York penitentiary, West 96th Street and Columbus
- The former East River Savings Bank, now a pharmacy and called the "Aspirineum," West 96th Street and Amsterdam
- Church of the Ascension, West 107th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
- Straus Park, West 106th Street and Broadway
Demographics
According to the 2000 census (in which Manhattan Valley's census tracks are 187, 189, 191, 193, and 195), 48,983 persons live in the community, of which 44% are of Hispanic origin, 32% African Americans, and 24% Asians, Whites and others. The Dakota, constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884, is an Apartment building located on the northwest corner of Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security Prison in Ossining, New York, USA. Fifty-five percent of the residents are of very low income (below 50% of the area's median family income, which is $13,854). The more affluent families reside West of Broadway and East of Manhattan Avenue. Of the Manhattan Valley population 20. 76% are on social security and 23% on public assistance. [10]
References
- ^ "Would an Aardvark Live Here?" New York Times, September 17, 2006
- ^ Manhattan Valley boundary map [1]
- ^ a b c Gil Tauber, "Bloomingdale/Manhattan Valley Chronology," Columbus/Amsterdam Business Improvement District (This is a dead link as of at least July 15, 2007)
- ^ a b Maurice Mann, "Get Ahead of the Crowd in Manhattan Valley," Real Estate Weekly, 23 March 2005
- ^ "Manhattan Valley, Insane or Not?," Curbed, 3 April 2006
- ^ "History," MVDC
- ^ Evelyn Nieves, " Manhattan Valley's Long Awaited Boom Ends Up Just a Fizzle," New York Times, 25 December 1990
- ^ a b Vera Haller, "City Living: Manhattan Valley," Newsday, 6 January 2006
- ^ S Johoanna Robledo, "Valley of the Deals," New York Magazine, 28 February 2005
- ^ "Demographic/Catchment Area," MVDC
External links
Sources
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- Peter Salwen, Upper West Side Story 1989, ISBN 0-89659-894-2. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar)
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