The neighborhood is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest point on the island of Manhattan by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, to defend the area from the British forces.
Historically the home of many Irish Americans as well as German Jews, today the majority of the neighborhood’s population is of Dominican birth or descent as well as a sizable Orthodox Jewish population.
Location
Washington Heights is bordered by Harlem to the south, along 155th Street, Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street or Hillside Avenue, the Hudson River to the west, and the Harlem River and Coogan's Bluff to the east.
United Palace (Formerly Loew’s 175th Street Theatre)
STATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Fort Washington Presbyterian Church
21 Wadsworth Avenue, New York, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Holyrood Episcopal Church-Iglesia Santa Cruz
715 West 179th Street, New York, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Morris-Jumel Mansion
West 160th Street & Edgecombe AvenueSTATUS: Designated Exterior and Interior Landmark