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Washington Heights holds stories and secrets that few New Yorkers
know - paintings by Velazquez, El Greco and Goya in the lush Hispanic
Society Museum, the graves of Clement Clarke Moore (author of The Night
Before Christmas), John James Audubon and all of the Astors, as well as
an intact Georgian mansion built in 1760, where Aaron Burr married the
notorious Eliza Jumel and where George Washington watched the city burn
in 1776. The city's best ghost story is here along with Paul Robeson's
house, Sylvan Row, the site of the Polo Grounds and some splendid architecture.
We'll cover the area north from West 155th Street (with digressions south
into Trinity Cemetery) to West 162nd Street, and we'll meet outside the
West 157th Street subway (1/9 lines) station, on the southeast corner.
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