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The district Sedgwick Houses of Morris Heights in Bronx County (New York) is located in United States about 213 mi north-east of Washington DC, the country's capital.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 26°C / 78 °F
Morning Temperature | 17°C / 63 °F |
Evening Temperature | 30°C / 86 °F |
Night Temperature | 23°C / 74 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 2% |
Air Humidity | 62% |
Air Pressure | 1003 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 11 km/h (7 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Thursday, 9th of May 2024
19°C (66 °F)
13°C (56 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Friday, 10th of May 2024
11°C (51 °F)
10°C (49 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 11th of May 2024
8°C (46 °F)
9°C (48 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Luxury Suites Upper West Brownstone
New York Renaissance Home and Guest House
The Sylvan Guest House
The Park Ave North
La Maison d'Art
Mi Casa Tu Casa
Market Rentals Downtown Apartments
Market Rentals Uptown
Opera House Hotel
Sugar Hill Harlem Inn
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Insider Guide: The South Bronx's Grand Concourse
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The Evening Commute from Jersey - A TIME-LAPSE COMEDY
This is a timelapse featuring an evening commute from Englewood Cliffs, NJ to Merrick, NY on Long Island via New York City utilizing US Route 9W, the Palisades Interstate Parkway, the George...
Broken House Sewer Line In Bronx, NY
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MNRR Express trains from Highbridge Park
5/25/13 Rainy Saturday morning so I decided up the hill from my house to Highbridge Park, which has great views of the Hudson Line. Caught a New Haven unit as well. Enjoy! 1. Metro North...
Metro North Express from Highbridge Park
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New York City Subway: Snowy Elevated Trains in Manhattan and Bronx
Today's film leaves the underground and shows the only elevated stretches of the subway system that exist today in Manhattan. There are two such stretches, both along the IRT Seventh Avenue...
Hurricane Sandy arrives Bronx Monday 10 29 2012 720P
The day that Hurricane Sandy came to New York City, Monday, October 29, 2012. This is a time-lapse video with an image shot every half second. The video was rendered at 60 frames per second...
#1 train departs Dyckman St Station in a Blizzard! 1/27/11
Thought I'd remind everyone what last years winters was like in NYC, #1 train departs Dyckman St Station during last years Blizzard! Recorded 1/27/11.
1 train at Dyckman Street
South Ferry-bound 1 train of R62As arriving at, stopping, and leaving Dyckman Street before entering the Washington Heights tunnel on a rainy Thursday afternoon.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
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Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university not ranked in the Shangai ranking.
Morris Heights (Metro-North station)
The Morris Heights (also known as Morris Heights – West 177th Street) Metro-North station serves the residents of the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, New York via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for New York City every 25 to 35 minutes during peak hours, and every hour at other times and on weekends. It is 8.1 miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately 17 minutes.
Mount Eden Avenue (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
Mount Eden Avenue is a local station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Mount Eden and Jerome Avenues in the Bronx, it is served by the 4 train at all times. It has three tracks and two side platforms. This station has old style signs painted over and covered up with new style signs, and features new fare control railings and a crossunder. This station is located two blocks from the Lebanon Hospital.
170th Street (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
170th Street is a local station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 170th Street and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, it is served by the 4 train at all times. This elevated station, opened on June 2, 1917 and rehabilitated in 2004, has three tracks and two side platforms.
High Bridge (New York City)
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George Washington High School (New York City)
George Washington High School is a public high school located in the Fort George neighborhood of the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, New York. The original school, which was operated by the New York City Department of Education, was built February 2, 1917. The school's name derives from the Revolutionary War battle fought on the hill of the building site. The school was once an annex of Morris High School.
Roberto Clemente State Park
Roberto Clemente State Park is a state park in the South Bronx, New York in the USA. The park is in the northern part of New York City, adjacent to the Harlem River, the Major Deegan Expressway and the Morris Heights station on Metro-North's Hudson Line. Roberto Clemente was a baseball player, who was killed in an air crash while trying to assist relief efforts after the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake.
Alexander Hamilton Bridge
The Alexander Hamilton Bridge carries eight lanes of traffic over the Harlem River in New York City between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, connecting the Trans-Manhattan Expressway in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan and the Cross-Bronx Expressway, as part of Interstate 95. The bridge opened to traffic on January 15, 1963, the same day that the Cross-Bronx Expressway was completed.
Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy
The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, also known as Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB), MTA (Manhattan Talmudical Academy) or TMSTA, is an Orthodox Jewish day school, the boys' prep school of Yeshiva University (YU) in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), or Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan, is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University, located in Washington Heights, New York. It is named after Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, who died the year it was founded, 1896. The current dean since 2008 is Rabbi Yona Reiss.
Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)
Yeshiva College is located in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. It is Yeshiva University’s undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences for men. (Stern College for Women is Yeshiva College’s counterpart for women. ) Roughly 1,100 students from some two dozen countries, including students registered at Syms School of Business, attend Yeshiva College. On July 27, 2009, it was announced that Barry L. Eichler, Ph.D. , will succeed David J. Srolovitz, Ph.D.
Highbridge Park
Highbridge Park is located in Washington Heights on the banks of the Harlem River near the northernmost tip of the New York City borough of Manhattan, between 155th Street and Dyckman Street. The park is operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Morris Heights, Bronx
Morris Heights is a low income residential neighborhood located in the West Bronx. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 5. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: West Burnside Avenue to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the south, and the Harlem River to the west. University Avenue is the primary thoroughfare through Morris Heights. The local subway is the IRT Jerome Avenue Line, operating along Jerome Avenue.
181st Street (Manhattan)
181st Street is a major thoroughfare running through the Washington Heights neighborhood in uptown Manhattan in New York City. It runs from the Washington Bridge in the east, to the Henry Hudson Parkway in the west, near the George Washington Bridge and the Hudson River. The west end is called Plaza Lafayette. West of Fort Washington Avenue, 181st Street is largely residential, bordering Hudson Heights and having a few shops to serve the local residents.
Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration
The Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, a Yeshiva University professional school, was established in 1945 and named in 1983 for Montréal architect and philanthropist David J. Azrieli. Classes are held at Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus, in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, and Israel Henry Beren Campus, in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood. Azrieli’s dean is David J. Schnall, Ph.D.
Syms School of Business
Syms School of Business (formerly the Sy Syms School of Business) is Yeshiva University's business school. It offers both undergraduate and graduate business programs at the Wilf Campus in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, and at the Beren Campus in New York’s Murray Hill neighborhood. The school offers the combination of a complete business curriculum, affording professional preparation with a broad base in liberal arts studies.
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
The Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University was founded in 1957. It is a methods-based institution offering concentrations in clinical casework, social group work, and community social work. Fieldwork is an integral part of the curriculum. Classes are held at Yeshiva University’s Wilf campus, in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, and Beren campus, in New York’s Murray Hill neighborhood.
Audubon Avenue
Audubon Avenue is an avenue in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan that runs north-south, west of and parallel to Amsterdam Avenue. Its southern terminus is at West 165th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, and its northern terminus is at Fort George Avenue, just north of West 193 Street. It crosses over the Trans-Manhattan Expressway, just to the east of where it enters the tunnel. Audubon Avenue is named for naturalist John James Audubon, who owned a farm in the area.
Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music
The Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music is a music school that focuses on Jewish music. It is part of Yeshiva University in New York City. Classes are held in the Schottenstein Center on Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus in Manhattan. Courses include nusah hatefilah (prayer chant), cantillation (biblical chant), voice, piano, music theory, history of Jewish music and liturgy, safrut (Hebrew calligraphy), and Sephardic hazzanut (cantorial).
James Striar School of General Jewish Studies
The James Striar School of General Jewish Studies, informally known as the Mechinah Program, is a comprehensive program in Jewish studies for students seeking to improve and further their basic skills and knowledge of Jewish studies. JSS is the only school in the country designed for college-age students who wish to pursue Jewish studies on either beginning or intermediate level while taking a regular college program simultaneously on the same campus.
178th-179th Street Tunnels
The 178th and 179th Street Tunnels are two defunct vehicular tunnels in Upper Manhattan in the state of New York. Originally conceived and constructed under the auspices of Robert Moses, the twin tunnels have been superseded by the Trans-Manhattan Expressway in Washington Heights. In the 1950s, the Trans-Manhattan Expressway was constructed by Robert Moses and by 1962, the two tunnels were out of commission.
Church of the Sacred Heart (Bronx, New York)
The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 1253 Shakespeare Avenue (West 168 Street), Bronx, New York City 10452. The church building was designed by architect Elliott Lynch, who designed several other Catholic churches and parish schools. The church is connected with a school of the same name.
1520 Sedgwick Avenue
1520 Sedgwick Avenue is a 102-unit apartment building in the Morris Heights neighborhood in The Bronx borough of New York City. Recognized as a long-time "haven for working-class families," in 2010 the New York Times reported that it is the "accepted birthplace of hip hop. " After a long period of neglect and shady dealings in the 1990s and 2000s the building has been "highlighted by elected officials and tenant advocates as an emblem of New York’s affordable housing crisis.
Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church (New York City)
Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church was a former Lutheran church in Manhattan, New York City at 578-580 West 187th Street. The church building built 1925 to 1926 at a cost of $30,000 to designs by an architect Stoyan N. Karastoyanoff of 220 Audubon Avenue. It was demolished and there is no longer a parish of St. Luke's in New York.
Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church (New York City)
Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church is a significant Armenian Apostolic Church in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City at 580 West 187th Street. It occupies the former second location of the Lutheran church of The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, established in 1897 as a mission church of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and built in its second location at West 187th Street.