Fort Washington Park
Fort Washington Park is a public park located in the Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It runs along the banks of the Hudson River next to Riverside Drive and the Henry Hudson Parkway from West 155th Street to Dyckman Street.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Bennett Park and Castle Village.
Bennett Park
Park
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Bennett Park, also known as James Gordon Bennett Park, is a 1.8-acre public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.
Castle Village
Residential area
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Castle Village is a five-building cooperative apartment complex located on Cabrini Boulevard between West 181st and 186th Streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
181st Street station
Metro station
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The 181st Street station is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located beneath Fort Washington Avenue in the Hudson Heights section of the Washington Heights neighborhood, between 181st and 184th Streets.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Washington Heights and Morris Heights.
Washington Heights
Quarter
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Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
Morris Heights
Neighborhood
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Morris Heights is a residential neighborhood located in the West Bronx. 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.
Highbridge
Neighborhood
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Highbridge is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the central-west section of the Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, Macombs Dam Bridge to the south, and the Harlem River to the west.
Fort Washington Park
- Type: Park
- Description: public park in Manhattan, New York
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.85316° or 40° 51′ 11″ northLongitude
-73.93989° or 73° 56′ 24″ westElevation
105 feet (32 metres)Open location code
87G8V336+72OpenStreetMap ID
way 105715154OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
5117715Wikidata ID
Q18148520
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Chinese—“Fort Washington Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fort Washington Park”
- Chinese: “紐約石楠公園”
- Chinese: “纽约石楠公园”
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Localities in the Area
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