page_title: Washington Heights, Manhattan
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Washington Heights, Manhattan / Geography
caption_attribution_description: The highest natural point in Manhattan, New York is in Bennett Park, located in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights between Pinehurst and Fort Washington Avenues and West 183rd and 185th Streets. The inset shows the marker seen in the lower right of the larger image.
context_page_description: Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan Island by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, to defend the area from the British forces. Washington Heights is bordered by Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street, Harlem to the south along 155th Street, the Harlem River and Coogan's Bluff to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. As of 2016, it has a population of 201,590.
  Washington Heights is part of Manhattan Community District 12, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10032, 10033, and 10040. It is patrolled by the 33rd and 34th Precincts of the New York City Police Department.
context_section_description: Washington Heights is on the high ridge in Upper Manhattan that rises steeply north of the narrow valley that carries 133rd Street to the former ferry landing on the Hudson River that served the village of Manhattanville. On this elevated valley is the highest terrestrial point in Manhattan, an outcropping of schist 265 feet above sea level in Bennett Park.
  Once considered to run as far south as 135th Street, west of Central Harlem, in the modern day Washington Heights is defined as the area from Hamilton Heights at 155th Street to Inwood at Dyckman Street.
caption: The highest natural point on Manhattan, in Bennett Park. The inset at bottom left magnifies the plaque at right.
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