New York magazine put out a list of neighborhoods to watch for but the fourth place position that the publication features is technically the blocks surrounding the Mount Morris Park Historic District:
LINK. The park proper switched titles to Marcus Garvey Park sometimes in 1973 but the neighborhood at large is still the Mount Morris Park Historic District which many signs will point out. A new development that the article talks about on 123rd Street doesn't even face the park but is around the proposed extension of the the historic district a couple of blocks west. At least the Harlem neighborhood listed at position number twenty was correctly labeled Hamilton Heights and not St. Nicholas Park (but a picture shown is actually Manhattanville):
LINK. Still confused? Check out these neighborhood maps:
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That whole area should be known from now on as Harlem Village. Mount Morris Park Historic District is too wordy and Marcus Garvey Park is, well, a park.
ReplyDeleteBut Harlem Village sounds a bit Ye Olde Shoppe-ish. When asked where I live I just say Harlem. One-one-nine. Word.
ReplyDeleteOh, Ulysses. Thanks so much for posting that link last Fall re: email address for getting trees planted. They are working on my tree pit even as I type. Not saying they wouldn’t have anyway but it surely didn’t hurt.
I actually think they did mean the park. Because of the comparison to Madison Square Park. Which is a park, not a neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteHenry, Madison Square Park is now considered a neighbourhood. In brokerbabble. Hey—if my old nabe can be renamed Hudson Square when it is really ‘the traffic-clogged bit by the Holland Tunnel’, anything is possible.
ReplyDeleteI think Henry is right. The park itself is the anchoring landmark of the neighborhood. The historic district is an abstract boundary set by the landmarks commission (or whatever city agency handles these designations). The benefits of the park are not limited to the historic district, and therefore NY Magazine is correct in evaluating the entire area around the park, electing not to be held hostage to some bureaucratic designation. For perspective, though outside the historic district, I live just 3 blocks away from the park, much closer than many parts of the historic district (expecially the proposed expansion).
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone call the area the Marcus Garvey Park neighborhood? Isn't the article about new neighborhoods to watch out for?
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ReplyDelete"Marcus Garvey Park neighborhood" sounds good to me. Thanks for the idea. :-)
To me "Mount Morris Park" is short for "Mount Morris Park Historic District" (the federal boundaries, not the City boundaries) - it's a neighborhood, not a park. Calling Marcus Garvey Park Mount Morris Park is a bit like calling Avenue of the Americas 6th Avenue or calling Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd 7th Avenue - technically "wrong", but everyone knows what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteNot a word from anyone about the hideous, unrepresentative photo that accompanied the article?
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