Hamilton Heights, Manhattan

For the neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, see Hamilton Heights, St. Louis.

Hamilton Heights
Neighborhood of Manhattan
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Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°49′30″N 73°56′56″W / 40.825°N 73.949°W / 40.825; -73.949
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
BoroughManhattan
Community DistrictManhattan 9[1]
Area
[2]
 • Total1.08 km2 (0.416 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total47,531
 • Density44,000/km2 (110,000/sq mi)
Ethnicity
[3]
 • Hispanic52.2%
 • Black32.2
 • White10.9
 • Asian2.2
 • Others2.6
Economics
[2]
 • Median income$43,673
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
10031, 10032, 10039
Area code212, 332, 646, and 917

Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is the northernmost part of the West Harlem area, along with Manhattanville and Morningside Heights to its south,[4] and it contains the sub-neighborhood and historic district of Sugar Hill[5]. Washington Heights lies to Hamilton Heights' north, and to its east is Central Harlem.[6]

Hamilton Heights is bounded by 135th Street to the south, Riverside Drive to the west, 155th Street to the north, and Edgecombe Avenue and Saint Nicholas Avenue to the east. The community derives its name from Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who lived the last two years of his life in what is now the Hamilton Grange National Memorial, back when Upper Manhattan was mostly farmland.[6]

Hamilton Heights is part of Manhattan Community District 9, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10031, 10032, and 10039.[1] It is patrolled by the 30th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.

  1. ^ a b "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Hamilton Heights neighborhood in New York". Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference PLP3A was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "The District - Manhattan Community Board 9". www.cb9m.org. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  5. ^ James, Davida Siwisa (2024). Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton's Old Harlem Neigborhood Through the Centuries (1st ed.). New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-1-5315-0614-8.
  6. ^ a b Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 519–520. ISBN 0300055366.