Introducing Teachers College

Morningside Heights & Harlem

Morningside Heights & Harlem

Morningside Heights is the academic quarter of New York City, stretching from West 106th to 125th Streets, Morningside Heights has several extraordinary institutions of note, including Columbia University, the Manhattan School of Music, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary, in addition to Grant's Tomb and Riverside Park.

Harlem is the center of African-American history and culture, stretching from West 125th on the west side to 100th Street on the east side and extending north to the Bronx, it is one of New York's most important neighborhood, eaturing a wide array of historic churches, theaters, clubs and homes. It has served as the home to a number of African-American activists like W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, Roy Wilkins and the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr.; writers like Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston; musicians like Paul Robeson and Cab Calloway; and professionals like Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to become a United States Supreme Court justice.