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Name of the neighborhood Limits south to north and east to west Upper Manhattan: Above 96th Street Marble Hill MN01 [a]: The neighborhood is located across the Harlem River from Manhattan Island and has been connected to The Bronx and the rest of the North American mainland since 1914, when the former course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in. [2]
The area north of 42nd Street is patrolled by the 18th (Midtown North) Precinct, located at 306 West 54th Street. [100] In 2010, the 10th Precinct ranked 61st safest out of 69 NYC patrol areas for per-capita crime, [101] while the Midtown North and Midtown South precincts ranked 69th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime. [102]
Midtown Manhattan is patrolled by two precincts of the NYPD. [104] Midtown North is patrolled by the 18th Precinct, [a] located at 306 West 54th Street, [105] while Midtown South is patrolled by the 14th Precinct, [a] located at 357 West 35th Street. [107] The precincts ranked 69th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.
The Washington Bridge, built in 1888, crosses the river just north of the Alexander Hamilton Bridge and connects to both the Trans-Manhattan and Cross Bronx expressways. [372]: 4 Crossing the river at 175th Street in Manhattan, the High Bridge is the oldest bridge in New York City still in existence. [373]
The 30th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 78.0% between 1990 and 2019. The precinct reported 4 murders, 20 rapes, 190 robberies, 178 felony assaults, 69 burglaries, 289 grand larcenies, and 27 grand larcenies auto in 2019. [22]
The Montgomerie Charter of 1731 added a "Montgomerie Ward" to the north of the West Ward. The wards became numbered in 1791. [4] In 1824 wards elected one member of the Board of Aldermen and two members of the Board of Assistants each, with aldermen elected for staggered two-year terms and assistants elected for one-year terms. [5]
While the district attorneys of Manhattan and Brooklyn are popularly referred to as "Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr.", or "Brooklyn D.A. Kenneth P. Thompson" by the media, they are technically and legally the district attorneys of New York County and Kings County, respectively. The same goes for Staten Island.
Inwood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, at the northern tip of Manhattan Island, in the U.S. state of New York.It is bounded by the Hudson River to the west, Spuyten Duyvil Creek and Marble Hill to the north, the Harlem River to the east, and Washington Heights to the south.