Manhattan Community District 9 | |
Settlement Type: | Community District |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | USA New York City#USA New York#USA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in New York City |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | New York City |
Subdivision Type3: | Borough |
Subdivision Name3: | Manhattan |
Parts Type: | Neighborhoods |
Parts: | West Harlem: |
P1: | Hamilton Heights |
P2: | Manhattanville |
P3: | Morningside Heights |
Leader Title: | Chairperson |
Leader Name: | Barry J. Weinberg |
Leader Title1: | District Manager |
Leader Name1: | Eutha R. Prince |
Unit Pref: | US |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.5 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 110,193 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Demographics Type2: | Ethnicity |
Demographics2 Title1: | Hispanic and Latino Americans |
Demographics2 Info1: | 38.8% |
Demographics2 Title2: | African-American |
Demographics2 Info2: | 21.5% |
Demographics2 Title3: | White |
Demographics2 Info3: | 27.6% |
Demographics2 Title4: | Asian |
Demographics2 Info4: | 8.8% |
Demographics2 Title5: | Others |
Demographics2 Info5: | 3.3% |
Blank Name Sec1: | Police Precinct |
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Timezone1: | Eastern |
Utc Offset1: | −5 |
Timezone1 Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 10025, 10026, 10027, 10030, 10031 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 212, 646, and 332, and 917 |
Footnotes: | [1] [2] [3] |
The Manhattan Community Board 9 is a New York City community board encompassing the neighborhoods of Hamilton Heights, Manhattanville, and Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan. It is delimited by Edgecombe Avenue, Bradhurst Avenue, Saint Nicholas Avenue, the 123rd Street and Morningside Avenue on the east, Cathedral Parkway on the south, the Hudson River on the west and 155th Street on the north.[4]
Three well known sub-areas are Sugar Hill at the northeast corner of Hamilton Heights overlooking Jackie Robinson Park; Vinegar Hill at the northeast corner of Manhattanville and the home of City College of New York overlooking St. Nicholas Park, and Cathedral Heights at the southeast tip of Morningside Heights is home to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and overlooks Morningside Park.
Its current chair is Padmore John, and its district manager Eutha Prince.
As of 2000, the Community Board has a population of 111,724 up from 106,978 in 1990 and 103,037 in 1980.
Of them (as of 2000), 19,837 (17.8%) are White non-Hispanic, 34,924 (31.3%) are African-American, 5,751 (5.1%) Asian or Pacific Islander, 272 (0.2%) American Indian or Native Alaskan, 398 (0.4%) of some other race, 2,309 (2.1%) of two or more race, 48,233 (43.2%) of Hispanic origins.
39.4% of the population benefit from public assistance as of 2004, up from 27.4% in 2000.
The land area is 964.1 acres, or 1.51 square miles (3.90 km²).[5]