Washington Heights, Manhattan

United States

Washington Heights, Manhattan holds 53 connections with 2539 other places across 16 topics, with the heaviest clusters in American Revolutionary War history, nature, film, and music. The neighborhood urbanized rapidly in the early 1900s as Broadway–Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue subway lines tied it to the rest of Manhattan. Its three major parks anchor the nature connections: Fort Washington Park holds the Little Red Lighthouse, and Fort Tryon Park houses the Cloisters. A succession of immigrant communities, including Irish, German Jews, Greek Americans, and Puerto Ricans, shaped its history connections.