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Delve into Fordham Hill
The district Fordham Hill of University Heights in Bronx County (New York) is a district located in United States about 215 mi north-east of Washington DC, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 10°C / 49 °F
Morning Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
Evening Temperature | 13°C / 55 °F |
Night Temperature | 9°C / 47 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 29% |
Air Pressure | 1012 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 7 km/h (5 mph) from South-East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
13°C (55 °F)
9°C (48 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
13°C (55 °F)
11°C (51 °F)
Sky is clear, light breeze, clear sky.
Monday, 18th of November 2024
12°C (53 °F)
11°C (51 °F)
Overcast clouds, moderate breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Luxury Suites Upper West Brownstone
Opera House Hotel
Mi Casa Tu Casa
The Park Ave North
La Maison d'Art
Sugar Hill Harlem Inn
New York Renaissance Home and Guest House
The Sylvan Guest House
Market Rentals Uptown
Market Rentals Downtown Apartments
Videos from this area
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Fire at Bronx, FDNY, October 4th 2007. Edited and complete
Fire at The Bronx, New York City, October 4th 2007. Jerome Av. and Fordham Rd. Squad 61 responding. Edited and complete.
Raising the Broadway Bridge
Viewed from the Marble Hill-225th Street station, the Broadway Bridge is raised to allow a pair of tugboats to pass. The tugboats were hauling two barges used to transport retired subway cars...
9 Fordham Hill Oval
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9 Fordham Hill Oval
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New York City Transit Bus: 1218 Nova Bus LFS (semi-low floor, articulated) on Bx12 SBS
Bay Plaza Bound bus is at Fordham Road.
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UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS BRIDGE
VIDEO SHOT ON LOCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS METRO-NORTH STATION OF THE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS BRIDGE.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
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Marble Hill (Metro-North station)
The Marble Hill (also known as Marble Hill – West 225th Street) Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the Marble Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City via the Hudson Line and is one of four express stations on that line south of Croton–Harmon seeing most trains minus peak hour trains to/from Poughkeepsie. It is 9.8 miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about 21 minutes.
University Heights (Metro-North station)
The University Heights (also known as University Heights – West 207th Street) Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for Manhattan every 25 to 35 minutes on weekdays. It is 8.69 miles from Grand Central Terminal, and travel time to Grand Central is approximately 19 minutes. It is located between the Harlem River and the Major Deegan Expressway.
Kingsbridge Road (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
Kingsbridge Road is a rehabilitated local station on the elevated IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, it is served by the 4 train at all times. It is a typical IRT elevated station, except for an extra exit on the southbound side. The Kingsbridge Armory rises immediately to the west of the station. The station has three tracks and two side platforms.
Fordham Road (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
Fordham Road is a local station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Fordham Road and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, it is served by the 4 train at all times. It has old style signs painted over and covered up with new style signs, and features new fare control railings as a crossunder. The station has a wooden mezzanine, and two extra exits. The station has three tracks and two side platforms.
183rd Street (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
183rd Street is a rehabilitated local station on the elevated IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 183rd Street and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, it is served by the 4 train at all times. The station has old style signs painted over and covered up with new style signs, and features new fare control railings as a crossunder. The station has a wooden mezzanine, and two extra exits. There are three tracks and two side platforms.
Burnside Avenue (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
Burnside Avenue is an express station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Burnside and Jerome Avenues in the Bronx, it is served by the 4 train at all times. It is the only express station with three tracks and two island platforms on the elevated portion of the Jerome Avenue Line. (The only other express station on the Jerome Avenue Line is the underground 149th Street – Grand Concourse station.
Monroe College
Monroe College is a for-profit college with campuses in the Bronx and New Rochelle in the U.S. state of New York and in the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia. The college is named after James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. Mildred King founded the "Monroe School of Business" in 1933 at 1940 Boston Post Road in the Bronx. The first class consisted of seven students in four classrooms. By 1936 after Henry Jerome joined the school had 145 students.
Fordham, Bronx
Fordham is a neighborhood of New York City, United States, located at the west side of Bronx County. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 5. It is bordered by Fordham Road to the north, Southern Boulevard to the east, East 161st Street to the south, and Jerome Avenue to the west. The neighborhood's primary thoroughfare is Fordham Road; its main rapid transit line is the IND Concourse Line, operating under the Grand Concourse, with the IRT Jerome Avenue Line on its western border.
Bronx Community College
The Bronx Community College of The City University of New York (BXCC) is a community college in the City University of New York system located in the University Heights neighborhood of The Bronx.
Broadway Bridge (Manhattan)
The Broadway Bridge in New York City crosses the Harlem River Ship Canal between Inwood on Manhattan Island and Marble Hill, also originally part of the island, but separated from it by the ship canal; it is still part of the borough of Manhattan. The bridge is named because it carries Broadway, which is designated as US 9 here. The bridge also carries the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line above the road.
Marble Hill – 225th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
Marble Hill – 225th Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Broadway and 225th Street in Marble Hill, Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times.
215th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
215th Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 215th Street and Tenth Avenue in the Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood, it is served by the 1 train at all times. This elevated station, opened on March 16, 1906, has two side platforms and three tracks with the center track not used in revenue service.
207th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
207th Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 207th Street and 10th Avenue in the Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood, it is served by the 1 train at all times. This elevated station, opened on March 16, 1906, has two side platforms and three tracks with the center track not used in revenue service.
WNYU-FM
WNYU-FM is a college radio station owned and operated by New York University. Until 2004, it served lower Manhattan and surrounding areas, but thanks to a new booster, it now broadcasts to the tri-state region. The station can be heard on 89.1 FM at 8,300 watts from 4pm until 1am on weekdays, and on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at wnyu. org. The stream can also be found in iTunes Radio under the Eclectic genre. WNYU is run entirely by university students.
University Heights, Bronx
University Heights is a low-income neighborhood of the West Bronx in New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 5 and Bronx Community Board 7. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are: West 190th Street to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, West Burnside Avenue to the south, and the Harlem River to the west. University Avenue is the primary thoroughfare in University Heights.
Kingsbridge Heights, Bronx
Kingsbridge Heights is a working class residential neighborhood geographically located in the northwest Bronx, New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 8. Its boundaries are Van Cortlandt Park to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, Kingsbridge Road to the south, and the Major Deegan Expressway to the west. Sedgwick Avenue is the primary thoroughfare through Kingsbridge Heights. Zip codes include 10463 and 10468.
University Heights Bridge
The University Heights Bridge crosses the Harlem River, connecting West 207th Street in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan to West Fordham Road in the University Heights section of the Bronx. The bridge is operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation. The bridge carries two lanes of traffic in each direction, along with a sidewalk on the south side of the bridge. It may have once carried the now-decommissioned New York State Route 9X.
Fordham Road
Fordham Road is a major street in The Bronx borough of New York City. It runs east-west from the Harlem River to Bronx Park. This street runs through the neighborhood of University Heights, divides Fordham from Fordham-Bedford and finally runs along the northern border of Belmont. It begins at its eastern point as a continuation of Pelham Parkway and at its western point, continues over the University Heights Bridge into Manhattan, where it runs as West 207th Street.
University Woods
University Woods is a small woodland park in the University Heights neighborhood in the borough of the Bronx, overlooking the Harlem River crested between Sedgwick and Cedar Avenues in New York City. After having been named "the city's worst park" by the New Yorkers for Parks in the years 2003–2006, a restoration project was begun in 2008 by the Friends of the Woods organization, with a $500,000 grant from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Jerome Avenue
Jerome Avenue is one of the longest thoroughfares in the New York City borough of the Bronx, New York, United States. The road is 5.6 miles (9 km) long and stretches from Highbridge general area to Woodlawn. Both of these termini are with the Major Deegan Expressway which runs parallel to the west. Most of the elevated IRT Jerome Avenue Line runs along Jerome Avenue. The Cross Bronx Expressway interchanges with Jerome and the Deegan.
Sedgwick Avenue
Sedgwick Avenue is a major street in the Bronx, New York City. It runs roughly parallel to Jerome Avenue, the Major Deegan Expressway, and University Avenue. Sedgwick Avenue is one of the longest streets in the western part of the Bronx, running from Mosholu Parkway at the north to Macombs Dam Bridge at its southern end, very near Yankee Stadium. A smaller Sedgwick Avenue continues into Yonkers, north of Van Cortlandt Park and east of the Saw Mill River Parkway.
Burton Arms Apartments
Burton Arms Apartments was an edifice completed in December 1922, located at 2115 Walton Avenue and 181st Street (Manhattan) in the Bronx. The building was one block from Lexington Avenue (Manhattan)-Jerome Avenue. Advertised as the most beautiful apartment house in New York City, it could be reached via the 6th Avenue (Manhattan) - 9th Avenue (Manhattan) subway or the L at Burnside Avenue. 3,4, or 5 room rentals were available.
New York Velodrome
The New York Velodrome was a state-of-the-art bicycle track at 225th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. It was one of the largest velodromes in the world.
St. Nicholas of Tolentine's Church (Bronx, New York)
The Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentine is a Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at Fordham Road at University Avenue, Bronx, New York City. The substantial stone twin-towered is deemed "The Cathedral of the Bronx."
Campbell Sports Center
The Campbell Sports Center, currently under construction on Columbia University's Baker Field Athletics Complex, is a design by Steven Holl and senior partner Chris McVoy. Sited on the corner of West 218th street and Broadway, the Campbell Sports Center aims to forms an inviting new gateway to the Baker Athletics Complex, the primary athletics facility for the University’s outdoor sports program.