Neighborhood · Manhattan

Morningside Heights

Morningside Heights sits on a ridge in upper Manhattan, from 110th Street north to about 125th Street, between Riverside Park on the west and Morningside Park, which is included, on the east. Most of its housing is early-20th-century apartment buildings, alongside large institutional campuses. Columbia University, Barnard College, Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary are here, as are the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Riverside Church and Grant's Tomb. The Morningside Gardens co-op, completed in 1957, is at the north end. The 1 train runs under Broadway with stops at 110th, 116th and 125th Streets, and the A, B, C and D stop at 125th Street at the northeast corner. The Morningside Heights Historic District was designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2017.

Morningside Heights has 6,256 open HPD housing violations, 1,171 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,932 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 23rd most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.