morningside heights
The 1776 Battle of Harlem Heights Was Fought at Modern Day Columbia University
Have you ever seen this plaque on the math building at Columbia University? Located on Broadway around 118th Street, the
Film Locations: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in Morningside Heights
James Thurber’s wondrously imaginative tale of Walter Mitty was first published as a short story in The New Yorker
NYC That Never Was: A Gym in Morningside Park Sparks 1968 Columbia University Protests and Shutdown
Plans for the Morningside Gym. Image via WikiCU, user Tao tan In 1960, Columbia University proposed the construction of a
The NYC that Never Was: The Half-Finished St. John the Divine
“We live in a half-made world. So it ever has been since the Tower of Babel was left uncompleted, and
Daily What?! Peacocks at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
When we set out to explore Morningside Heights a few days ago, the last thing we expected to find was
Lourdes Grotto Replica inside a Morningside Heights Church
Prominently situated in the Morningside Heights neighborhood overlooking the park, the Church of Notre Dame has an interesting history and
On the Watercolor Trail to Morningside Heights
Broadway is the oldest North-South thoroughfare in our City. Like many of our streets, it originated as an Indian trail
A Tale of the Titanic: In Their Death They Were Not Divided
When the White Star Liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on a starlit evening in the North Atlantic Isidor Straus
HERE NOW!: How Foursquare and Facebook Measure Voting With Your Feet in New York
Foursquare Check-Ins in the Boroughs By Category The Spatial Information Lab at Columbia University has a new project which measures
BitCity Conference: Transportation, Data and Technology in Cities
“City streets are the original social network”–Rachel Sterne The BitCity Conference, which took place on November 9th at Columbia
The Busker of Morningside Heights
I found myself sitting in a Cuban restaurant on Broadway near Columbia University. It was an early spring afternoon, and
The Hungarian Pastry Shop, a literary outpost
When author and professor David Grahame Shane (of Recombinant Urbanism) asked us to meet at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on