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Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
An autobiographical account of a woman hiking a portion of the PCT alone in 1995 at age 26 was written by Cheryl Strayed. Her memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was published in 2012 and reached #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list. [44] Her hike is the subject of the 2014 film Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon.
Bennett Park, also known as James Gordon Bennett Park, is a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., [1] the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.
Wilt Chamberlain set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147 win over the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, at Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States. It is widely considered one of the greatest records in the sport's ...
Showtime has set a summer premiere date for NYC Point Gods, a feature-length documentary on the enduring impact of New York City point guards who honed their craft on the city’s playgrounds and ...
Cabrini Boulevard in the snow (December 2013); north of the neighborhood's apartment buildings, as one gets closer to Fort Tryon Park, it begins to feel less urban. Hudson Heights is a residential neighborhood within Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
On Sunday, Nov. 3, the basketball team took the New York City subway transit system to their 3:30 p.m. game at Barclays Center against the Brooklyn Nets, all due to the massive gridlock caused by ...
Young finished with a team-high 24 points and 20 assists in the win, which pushed the Hawks to 19-18 on the year. The 3-pointer was just his third of the night, too.