Morningside Park

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Morningside Park is a New York City public park in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The 30-acre (12 ha) area occupies 110th to 123rd Streets from Morningside Avenue to Morningside Drive at the border between Harlem and Morningside Heights. Its distinctive natural geography is a rugged cliff of Manhattan schist rock. The park came into existence as a cost-saving measure to avoid the expense of extending the street grid across difficult terrain.

By 1937, Columbia students were ominously warned not to enter the park for fear of grave bodily consequence.

www.nycgovparks.org/parks/morningsidepark
s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2254.pdf
spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19371020...
www.flickr.com/photos/olmsted_archives/albums/721576830...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morningside_Park_(New_York_City)
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Coordinates:   40°48'21"N   73°57'28"W
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