The urban kingdom of Washington Heights is an unlikely Eden where the stately European echoes of Beaux-Arts architecture clash with the extroverted expressions of the Latin-American diaspora, and where the pulse and grit of Broadway lie just steps from the immemorial calm of Inwood Hill Park. It's an impression that grows stronger as you move north into Hudson Heights and Inwood proper, where Manhattan Island narrows…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 07:00AM on February 14, 2017