Hamilton Heights - 145th St & Broadway (New York, Amsterdam: condo, neighborhood)

[BigCityLittleMan]

Hello,

I'm curious to know what people's thoughts are on the area around 145th St & Broadway in Hamilton Heights. Specifically, is this area gentrifying? I'd love to hear thoughts from people who live on the West side close to the river.

I'm Asian and have walked around a couple times. Every time, I felt that the area did not feel very diverse in terms of representing all ethnicities.

Thanks!

[JeRrYcRaCk]

its hood with a sprinkle of Midwestern weirdos mixed in.

[NooYowkur81]

Originally Posted by BigCityLittleMan

Hello,

I'm curious to know what people's thoughts are on the area around 145th St & Broadway in Hamilton Heights. Specifically, is this area gentrifying? I'd love to hear thoughts from people who live on the West side close to the river.

I'm Asian and have walked around a couple times. Every time, I felt that the area did not feel very diverse in terms of representing all ethnicities.

Thanks!

Hang out in the neighborhood a little more to see if your comfortable. There are definitely signs of gentrification going on. Just a couple months ago they opened up some new bar/restaurant on Amsterdam. Looks real nice from outside but I have not had pleasure of drinking a brewski there yet.

The Grange Bar and Eatery - Harlem - New York, NY

There have been people who are not black or Hispanic moving to the area between riverside and convent for a few years now (I would say easily over 10 years at this point). I've seen a few Asians. Upper Manhattan in general is not known to have a lot of Asians but there are a few in Hamilton Heights. I'm in this neighborhood pretty frequently since my folks live there I also spent quite a bit of my teen years there.

[Somewhere in Time]

Is the OP considering moving there or what's the story? If they want to feel comfortable or be around more Asians, there are plenty of them in parts of Queens.

[citylove101]

It is mainly Dominican/Puerto Rican and has been for a long time, though whites and African-Americans certainly live there. Just not in great numbers. I haven't noticed many Asians. (I grew up a few blocks from here and am still in the neighborhood from time to time.)

Its nicer down on Riverside Drive, where the housing is better and there has been a smattering of renovations, condo conversions, and new construction on some side streets, IIRC, near there. Riverbank Park at 145th and RSD is truly a nice spot too. Broadway and east, like a lot of the west side above Columbia, has a noticably lower QOL. Gentrification will come slowly as Columbia's new campus falls into place. But for now its a pretty unspectacular, uninspiring and drab neighborhood, I'd say. Not dangerous or bad, just sort ofthe place I'd live in if I had a good deal there. But my life would go on elsewhere in the city.

[NooYowkur81]

Originally Posted by citylove101

It is mainly Dominican/Puerto Rican and has been for a long time, though whites and African-Americans certainly live there. IJust not in great numbers. I haven't noticed many Asians. (I grew up a few blocks from here and am still in the neighborhood from time to time.)

Its nicer down on Riverside Drive, where the housing is better and there has been a smattering of renovations, condo conversions, and new construction on some side streets, IIRC, near there. Riverbank Park at 145th and ARSD is truly a nice spot too. Broadway and east, like a lot of the west side above Columbia, has a noticably lower QOL. Gentrification will come slowly as Columbia's new campus falls into place. But for now its a pretty unspectacular, uninspiring and drab neighborhood, I'd say. Not dangerous or bad, just sort ofthe place I'd live in if I had a good deal there while my life would go on elsewhere in the city.

It's really more of a DR/Afro-American/West-Indian neighborhood with a growing White population. Not a lot of PR. There are a lot of Afro Americans on Hamilton Place and on Convent. Riverside and Convent are both really nice.

[Borninnycliveinnyc]

Originally Posted by jerrycrack

its hood with a sprinkle of midwestern weirdos mixed in.

+1

[NooYowkur81]

To say it's hood with a sprinkle of midwesterners is a bit of an over-simplification and a bit of a diss to that neighborhood. It's actually a neighborhood with some neat history related to Alexander Hamilton and some great old historic housing and religious institutions. It also has always been more or less a mixed income area as Riverside and convent always had higher income people...

[Borninnycliveinnyc]

Originally Posted by NooYowkur81

To say it's hood with a sprinkle of midwesterners is a bit of an over-simplification and a bit of a diss to that neighborhood. It's actually a neighborhood with some neat history related to Alexander Hamilton and some great old historic housing and religious institutions. It also has always been more or less a mixed income area as Riverside and convent always had higher income people...

I'd rather live somewhere in Brooklyn or Queens

[DAS]

Originally Posted by NooYowkur81

It's really more of a DR/Afro-American/West-Indian neighborhood with a growing White population. Not a lot of PR. There are a lot of Afro Americans on Hamilton Place and on Convent. Riverside and Convent are both really nice.

This is true. The other post is more reflective of the way it was from about late 1920's - late 1950's plus with the Cubans, but minus the Dominicans that started arriving in the 60's. although more going to Washington Heights than Hamilton Heights in the early 60's. Many of the Blocks in between like 150th and 152nd were majority Black during this time. Some other Blocks like 153rd and 145th were Irish. Amsterdam was mostly Black and Broadway was mostly Puerto Rican and Cuban.

My family had a reunion recently and somehow of the youngsters live out of state. My uncle ages 60's - 70's lead the tour showing all of us the places where they played and went to school. Told us who lived on the different streets. We were joined by a close family friend that is German-Irish and now lives on the UWS but grew up on Edgecombe near 145th. Some of our family stills lives in the brownstone my Uncles were born in.