Plaza Lafayette
Plaza Lafayette is a 0.09-acre pocket park and surrounding streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City. Named after the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, the park is roughly…Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include George Washington Bridge and Bennett Park.
George Washington Bridge
Bridge
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The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey, with the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. George Washington Bridge is situated 3,200 feet west of Plaza Lafayette.
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.
Fort Washington Park
Park
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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.
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.
Plaza Lafayette
- Type: Park
- Description: plaza in Manhattan, New York
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.85155° or 40° 51′ 6″ northLongitude
-73.94159° or 73° 56′ 30″ westOpen location code
87G8V325+J9OpenStreetMap ID
way 1490739996OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q23092002
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