Old Map Of Marble Hill Manhattan

Crosby in 1891 from the local deposits of dolomite marble which is a relatively soft rock that overlay the inwood and marble hill communities.

Old map of marble hill manhattan. One manhattan neighborhood marble hill is part of the 718 347 929 codes rather than the 212 646 332 area codes. Geographically new york is a city with 5 boroughs 59 community districts and hundreds of neighborhoods. Marble hill although officially a part of the borough of manhattan to this day was severed geographically from manhattan island by the construction of the harlem river ship canal during 1895. The borough mainly on manhattan island spills over into the marble hill section on the mainland and includes a number of islets in the east river.

Marble hill unlike the rest of manhattan is in area code 718 but residents are listed in both bronx and manhattan phone books. The other marble cemetery is located at between 2 nd avenue 1 st avenue one block away from new york marble cemetery located adjacent to 43 second avenue. Manhattan borough of new york city coextensive with new york county in southeastern new york state u s. Though marble hill has its share of handsome manhattan style apartment buildings including one on west 225th street that has windows specifically angled to catch morning sunlight marble hill features in large part a number of single family homes on their own plots par for the course in the other four boroughs but quite unusual in manhattan.

After 1900 one of marble hill pastors was reverend william tieck who served the church from 1946 to 1977. Marble hill kept its proud island status until 1914 when the old creek was eventually filled in making it physically part of bronx but still legally part of manhattan. Politically a part of new york county marble hill became an. Marble hill residents fought to retain the 212 area code but lost.

New york city marble cemetery. Marble hill is the northernmost neighborhood in the new york city borough of manhattan it is one of the few areas within the manhattan borough that are not on manhattan island marble hill was occupied as a dutch colonial settlement in 1646 and gained its current name in 1891 because of marble deposits underneath the neighborhood. To confuse people through the centuries two independent cemeteries with similar names were built by the same developer perkins nichols at second second in 1830. The full article on atlas obscura is a short and fascinating read on a bit of new york history.

If you re curious to see the location of the old waterway head over to st. Marble hill was now an island but only for a brief time in 1914 the water on the north side of the hill was filled in permanently connecting it to the bronx. In 2014 the department of city planning issued a revised wall map displaying the neighborhood names and community district boundaries along with informative statistics on the geographic demographic and economic profile of new york city.