Morningside Heights: More Space For The Money nytimes.com

The area is known for its parks and historic buildings, but it has another draw: larger homes for less than New Yorkers might pay elsewhere.
Jill Shapiro was skeptical. She was taking the subway to look at an apartment on West 110th Street in Morningside Heights, which seemed very far north, she said, compared to the West 86th Street address where she was living with her husband and two daughters.

“But when I got off the train, on that corner, I instantly knew,” said Ms. Shapiro, 51, an office administrator. “If the apartment was O.K., this would be the neighborhood. It felt right.”

Among the attractions were a 24-hour supermarket on one corner, an adequate number of small shops and restaurants, and a “little less hustle and bustle” on the streets than in her previous neighborhood, she said. And then there was the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment that she and her husband, Evan, a television producer who is also 51, bought 14 years ago, for about $1.2 million.

Morningside

Heights

HENRY HUDSON PKWY.

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Harlem

W. 125TH ST.

SAKURA PARK

Riverside Church

Morningside

Heights

Hudson R.

MORNINGSIDE DR.

BROADWAY

RIVERSIDE

PARK

Columbia

University

RIVERSIDE DR.

W. 120TH ST.

Broadway

Presbyterian

Church

AMSTERDAM AVE.

MORNINGSIDE

PARK

W. 110TH ST.

W. 116TH ST.

Cathedral of

Saint John the Divine

MANHATTAN

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By The New York Times
That amount of space for a reasonable price is a major reason many people move to Morningside Heights; so are the low-rise historic buildings and the extensive parkland.

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