Morningside Heights: Columbia, Cathedrals and Calm Streets

Morningside Heights, a neighborhood northwest of Manhattan, es conocido como the academic acropolis for being home to the campuses of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Manhattan School of Music.

This is a neighborhood with a liberal spirit, and throughout its history it has been a hub of cultural movements that have had a deep impact on the United States.

What to see in Morningside Heights

Es un barrio hermoso with tree-lined streets and handsome buildings, bookstores, good coffee shops, bars, excellent music and always full of students.

The Seinfeld Restaurant

This reference will help you recognize the neighborhood right away: this is where you will find the Tom's Restaurant (Broadway at 112th St), where the characters from Seinfeld spend a good part of the day. You can go inside!

The opening scene of Ghostbusters

Es en la Columbia University where the plot of Ghostbustersbegins. As always, pop culture references are everywhere in New York, probably the most filmed city in the world.

West End Bar

If you are serious about literature and poetry deben visit the West End Bar (Broadway at 114th Street), which was the meeting place of the Beat Generation in the 1940s.

This is where Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr y Jack Kerouac shared their first ideas about what needed to change in American society.

Maybe because of that rebellious legacy, this same bar was the meeting spot for the student activists who led the 1968 antiwar protests.

Address

Morningside Heights sits between 110th and 125th Streets, and between St. Nicholas Avenue and the Hudson River.

Some say it is part of Upper West Side and others say Harlem.

How to get there

Lines B, C, 1. Stations from 110th to 125th Street.

Map

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