i live on west 108th street and amsterdam, what part of the city is this?
i mean, to say this is the upper west side is stretching it a bit, although where does the upper west side end? 96th? 100th? 103rd? i think i'd say 100th.
it's definitely not harlem and i wouldn't call it morningside heights either.
technically, i think it is manhattan valley. but certainly many a conversation like this will ensue if i start reference the m.v.:
random person: where do you live?
me: manhattan valley
random person: where's that?
am i forever (or at least until my lease runs out) banished to living in a unnamed neighborhood?
i have to say, though, i do like my neighborhood. the rest of the city is pretty accessible from here and there are restaurants, stores, bars, etc. it's quite a mix of people in a close area, too. if you start on 108th and broadway on my block and walk a block east you'd see a thai restaurant, an indian restaurant, some hair salon, then a doorman building, then two schools (one on either side of the street) then a bunch of guys playing handball, a few baby-mommies and maybe a crack dealer or two.
every once in a while someone gets robbed and/or shot. the guy across the hall with me got robbed at gunpoint. down the block on 108th and central park west, this guy robbed some girl in her apt. and her fiance came home and he robbed him too, then he was just standing there and the fiancee goes, "what are you gonna do? shoot me?" and the robber is like, "oh, you're real smart, huh? well, yea" and then he shot him - eeeeeeee.
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I would say you live in Morningside Heights. Maybe that starts at 110th, though. If not, then you live in the UWS.
I've never heard of Manhattan Valley, though if there were a place called MV, I would think it would be closer to 125th, where the huge valley is. The subway there goes way above ground for only one stop and then back underground again.
-ChuckJerry
You can check a AAA map and see, they should have cutoffs for neighborhoods. According to this though, the cutogg is 110 for Morningside: http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=429
Ah, so there is a Manhattan Valley, but it just looks like part of the UWS:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/neighbor/neighd.html
I've been in your neighborhood several times. All I can really remember is purchasing an empty brown paper bag at the break for dawn for something like $70.
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