San Juan Hill Manhattan (Roosevelt, Greenwich: neighborhood, live, area)

[Lost_Boy]

Where is this neighborhood?

[bluedog2]

It was where Lincoln Center now is.It was a notorious ghetto.

[Kefir King]

That was where Teddy Roosevelt invaded Manhattan.

[louie0406]

Lived in Manhattan from 1982 - 2009. This is the first time I'm hearing of such a place.

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by deevel79

Lived in Manhattan from 1982 - 2009. This is the first time I'm hearing of such a place.

Probably because it was erased from the earth 25 years before your arrival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Hill,_Manhattan

[SobroGuy]

Actually you have heard of it, you just don't realize it. It was the setting of the "West Side Story." It was called San Juan Hill because the residents from Puerto Rico (capital is San Juan), and the meeting of the different cultures was documented in this movie.

[Fred314X]

Historical factoid: before it was called San Juan Hill, it was known as N*gger Hill (the black community in Manhattan moved slowly up the west side, beginning in Greenwich Village long before it ever reached Harlem).

[SobroGuy]

That I did not know Fred.

[twist07]

Originally Posted by SobroGuy

Actually you have heard of it, you just don't realize it. It was the setting of the "West Side Story." It was called San Juan Hill because the residents from Puerto Rico (capital is San Juan), and the meeting of the different cultures was documented in this movie.

Actually, Keifer kind of eluded to the origin of the name. It was called San Juan Hill after a battle in the Spanish American War in Cuba, where black troops (10th Cavalry) charged up a hill to support Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The area having a large black population in the 1890's and early 1900's was then called San Juan Hill.

[SobroGuy]

If that is true, I am horribly wrong. I was under the impression it was due to the population of PRs which moved to the area...and I know that it was the basis for the West Side Story.