Morningside Park used to be bad, then it became much safer, and now it's becoming bad again.
In this article the New York Times fears a return to the Giuliani-style of policing that made the park safe 20 years ago.
A Park Shed Its Reputation. Then Came the Tessa Majors Murder.
That could be
I was there two summers ago....
Maybe 3 actually....I was surprised to see so much gentrification north of east 96 over to fifth ave etc
Around Patsys
All these white hipsters
I remember watching a hipster on a motorized moped zooming down from the park behind St Johns onto 110th
I was on morningside heights at. West 115 early in my manhattan days
1983
I ran them and as you know a mile is usually 19 to 20 north south blocks and 6-8 east west ones
I’d run on the side of morningside drive opposite the park and up to 110th and up the hill past St Johns and across past the Hungarian tea room and VTs pizza over to broadway and up to the pass thru at Columbia to the south lawn and over to Amsterdam and up and down the hill to 122nd and east back up morningside drive to 115th and turn west to my apartment on the north side of 115
Huge four bedroom pre war with three baths and living area and large kitchen on second floor....450 a month subsidized for Columbia grad students
My girlfriend was teaching at Barnard and working on her PhD at Lamont Dougherty observatory Woods Hole which is part of Columbia
Our roomies were two queens Jewish commie kids specializing in Russian studies and were in Moscow all the time and a rich girl from Omaha who’d actually dropped out but her folks kept sending money and she lived with her professor boyfriend up river at Piermont
We had this 2500 sq foot apartment to ourselves for 100 bucks a month heat included
Crazy...