Category Archives: Manhattanville

Subway (Elevated) And Riverside Viaduct, Crossing Manhattan St., At 125th St., New York

Posted on May 16, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Subway Elevated And Riverside Viaduct Crossing Manhattan St. At 125th St. New York

When building the subway through Manhattan Valley, IRT engineers chose to keep the subway level, and so allowed it to breach the surface and travel on a striking arch bridge above West 125th Street and Broadway in 1905. Continue reading →

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West Harlem, Portrayed in a First Wave of Grant Requests

Posted on February 7, 2013 by | Leave a comment

HARLEMGRANTS-articleLargeSome of the requests conjure images of a worn-down West Harlem: efforts to revive the arts in faltering schools; raise reading and writing skills for kindergarten and first-grade students; and help people with criminal records find jobs. Continue reading →

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Fish Market on 125th Street, 1920′s

Posted on August 31, 2012 by | Leave a comment

This was the Fish Market at 656 West 125th Street on a triangle on Manhattan street (now renamed 125th Street to the right and St. Clair Street to the left) in Manhattanville around the 1920′s. Continue reading →

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Docking At 96th street and the Hudson River, 1920′s

Posted on August 7, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The early years of the sewage treatment plant under Riverbank State Park at least has a guard booth. Well, it was a different world in the mid-20th century. Continue reading →

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The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, Harlem 1923

Posted on April 9, 2012 by | 3 Comments

The Studebaker building is an industrial building with Art Deco detailing that was built in 1923 to house the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in  of West Harlem. Continue reading →

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Harlem’s Enigmatic Neighborhood?

Posted on August 16, 2008 by | Leave a comment
WITH PARKING Fairway, tucked under the viaduct at 131st Street, is one attraction of Manhattanville. These days, some residents are disquieted by Columbia University’s plans to absorb a chunk of the area into its campus

WITH PARKING Fairway, tucked under the viaduct at 131st Street, is one attraction of Manhattanville. These days, some residents are disquieted by Columbia University’s plans to absorb a chunk of the area into its campus

Living In Manhattanville

Step off the elevated subway at the center of Manhattanville and you may wonder if there’s really a there there. The view from the station above 125th Street and Broadway can be disorienting: no little shops and bodegas to say, “This is it.” What you see instead are warehouses, bus depots and factories, as well as unmarked towers and a crosshatch of diagonal streets more reminiscent of the West Village.

Yet there’s something slightly magical about the way hills rise up around the area. A recent group exhibition of photographs dedicated to Manhattanville characterized its haunting mix of low-lying back streets, vaulted overpasses, vintage churches and riverfront as “strange, unresolved or unsettling.” Continue reading →

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