Morningside Heights Real Estate Market Trends

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Morningside Heights median price compared with other neighborhoods in Manhattan

Property values in Morningside Heights are lower compared to the borough of Morningside Heights overall.

Morningside Heights median price compared with all the neighborhoods in Manhattan

Neighborhood	Borough	Median Sale Price
Central Park South	Manhattan	$6,250,000
Hudson Yards	Manhattan	$6,164,125
SoHo	Manhattan	$2,946,750
Hudson Square	Manhattan	$2,695,000
TriBeCa	Manhattan	$2,495,000
Flatiron District	Manhattan	$2,150,000
NoMad	Manhattan	$2,129,763
Chinatown	Manhattan	$1,862,500
NoHo	Manhattan	$1,790,500
Carnegie Hill	Manhattan	$1,650,000
Two Bridges	Manhattan	$1,500,827
Garment District	Manhattan	$1,350,000
Greenwich Village	Manhattan	$1,255,000
NoLIta	Manhattan	$1,225,000
Lenox Hill	Manhattan	$1,172,500
Central Midtown	Manhattan	$1,170,000
Lincoln Square	Manhattan	$1,160,000
West Village	Manhattan	$1,150,000
Upper West Side	Manhattan	$1,057,500
Financial District	Manhattan	$1,045,000
Kips Bay	Manhattan	$979,000
Civic Center	Manhattan	$940,000
Battery Park City	Manhattan	$905,112
Gramercy Park	Manhattan	$900,000
Sutton Place	Manhattan	$835,000
Lower East Side	Manhattan	$810,000
East Village	Manhattan	$800,000
Yorkville	Manhattan	$792,000
Murray Hill	Manhattan	$787,500
Clinton - Hell's Kitchen	Manhattan	$755,000
Manhattan Valley	Manhattan	$723,500
Morningside Heights	Manhattan	$720,000
Chelsea	Manhattan	$718,750
Harlem	Manhattan	$707,500
Turtle Bay	Manhattan	$699,000
East Harlem	Manhattan	$590,000
Koreatown	Manhattan	$560,000
Tudor City	Manhattan	$489,000
Inwood	Manhattan	$384,000
Washington Heights	Manhattan	$370,000
Theatre District - Times Square	Manhattan	$225,000

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Morningside Heights Neighborhood Guide

This is New York City's "college town" - both figuratively and literally. In 1896 when Columbia University decided it needed more room than its original 49th Street location afforded, this is where the administrators bought land for a new main campus. Columbia still owns most of Morningside Heights. Meanwhile a host of educational institutions have moved in as neighbors: Barnard College, Teachers College, Manhattan School of Music, Bank Street College of Education and an array of theological seminaries. You don't have to be a teacher or student to live in Morningside Heights, but you will need to be good-humored about the pervasive presence of Big Education. There are still remaining bastions of `heritage residents' who watch the parade of students come and go each year and they contribute the sinew that binds this neighborhood together.

Architecture and landmarks

The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, a massive Gothic Revival house of worship, is the architectural star of Morningside Heights. The cathedral is considered the fourth largest Christian church in the world. The General Grant National Memorial, familiarly known as Grant's Tomb, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia. The Columbia University campus was designed in a Beaux Arts style by McKim, Mead and White, the city's most celebrated architectural firm of the Gilded Age. Low Plaza, designed to mimic a Greek amphitheater, is one of the greatest urban spaces in all of New York City. The adjoining Low Memorial Library boasts America's largest all-granite dome. Butler Library, which replaced Low as the main campus book depository in 1934, features some of the most impressive Ionic colonnades in all of academia. St. Paul's Chapel is a designated New York City landmark and favored space for nondenominational events. Notable off-campus sites include The West End Bar "Where Columbia Had Its First Beer" in 1911 and the writers and thinkers of the Beat Generation gathered in the mid-20th century. At Broadway and 112th Street is Tom's Restaurant, whose exterior was the staging shot for the iconic diner conversation scenes in Seinfeld.

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