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Morningside Heights

Morningside Heights is a neighborhood on the West Side of in . It is bounded by Morningside Drive to the east, 125th Street to the north, 110th Street to the south, and Riverside Drive to the west.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 55,900 residents
  • Description: neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States
  • Also known as: “Morningside Heights, Manhattan” and “Morningside Heights, New York City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Central Park and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Museum
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The , often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 between 88th and 89th Streets on the of in New York City.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum on the of in . Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from , the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Upper West Side and Harlem and Upper Manhattan.

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The covers a large area in upper bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and and Morningside Park on the east.

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Upper is a large, relatively under-visited area that ranges from 125th Street to Inwood Hill Park on the west and from 96th Street northward on the east.

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The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

Morningside Heights

Latitude
40.81° or 40° 48′ 36″ north
Longitude
-73.9625° or 73° 57′ 45″ west
Population
55,900
Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)
Open location code
87G8R26P+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158855791
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
6332422
Wiki­data ID
Q748485
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Morningside Heights” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Morningside Heights”
  • Catalan: “Morningside Heights”
  • Chinese: “摩寧西嶺”
  • Chinese: “晨边高地”
  • Dutch: “Morningside Heights”
  • Estonian: “Morningside Heights”
  • Finnish: “Morningside Heights”
  • French: “Morningside Heights”
  • Georgian: “მორნინგსაიდ ჰაიტსი”
  • German: “Morningside Heights und Manhattanville”
  • German: “Morningside Heights”
  • Hebrew: “מורנינגסייד הייטס”
  • Indonesian: “Morningside Heights, Kota New York”
  • Indonesian: “Morningside Heights, New York City”
  • Italian: “Morningside Heights”
  • Japanese: “モーニングサイド・ハイツ”
  • Korean: “모닝사이드하이츠”
  • Persian: “مورنینگساید هایتس، منهتن”
  • Persian: “مورنینگساید هایتس”
  • Polish: “Morningside Heights”
  • Portuguese: “Morningside Heights”
  • Russian: “Морнингсайд-Хайтс”
  • Serbian: “Morningsajd hajts”
  • Serbian: “Морнингсајд хајтс”
  • Spanish: “Morningside Heights (Manhattan)”
  • Spanish: “Morningside Heights”
  • Turkish: “Morningside Heights”
  • Welsh: “Morningside Heights”

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