☞ WALK: The Other Side of Manhattanville

There has been a lot written about the demise of Manhattanville via Eminent Domain but what's been written in the papers only reflect the industrial western half of this former West Harlem Village.  The area west of the Broadway elevated 1 train was close to the Hudson and the train tracks just past 12th Avenue so it was the natural industrial port of this section of Harlem.  On the east side of Broadway and going all the way to St. Nicholas Avenue,  one will find the residential part of of Manhattanville today.

A large part of the old tenements and wood frame houses were demolished in the mid 20th century for housing projects but many side streets still remain.  The section around Convent Avenue from 125th to 135th Street is probably the most intact residential section while lower Old Broadway still has a bit of the industrial element. Manhattanville's north border is at 135th Street and 122nd Street at the southern end. Folks over at Riverside Drive by Grants Tomb probably consider their nabe Morningside Heights but the current Community Board 9 map would argue differently: LINK.  Between housing projects and university growth, much of Manhattanville's landscape has been altered but there's still enough around to get a sense of where it came from originally.