Marble Hill
As a Marble Hill resident, your trip home from midtown Manhattan will take you north through Inwood and over the Harlem River into the northernmost section of the borough. Marble Hill is bordered on three sides by the Bronx, but technically this quaint and trendy neighborhood is part of New York County.
The character of the Marble Hill community is just as quirky as its rich history. Glistening new elevator buildings blend with unattached Victorian-style homes and stately prewar walkups. The walk to and from the subway station at 225th Street affords stunning views of the Harlem River. The neighborhood also has its own Metro North station, making it a breeze for a resident to connect to Grand Central Terminal to the south and Yonkers, Scarborough, and Poughkeepsie to the north. For a quicker escape, the peaceful seclusion of Inwood Hill Park lies just across the Broadway Bridge.
A cluster of less than a dozen streets wind through the hillside neighborhood. In the late 19th century Marble Hill was severed from Manhattan Island by a shipping canal. For two decades Marble Hill was an artificial island, bordered by the canal on one side and by Spuyten Duyvil Creek on the others. Then the creek, which had separated the neighborhood from the Bronx, was filled in. Even though Marble Hill was now geographically joined to the Bronx mainland, it retained its official status as a Manhattan neighborhood.
The affordability and convenience of "MaHi" has begun to draw a trendy crowd of young professionals who have been welcomed by the families already making Marble Hill their home. The neighborhood is also home to the Marble Hill School for International Studies. Great shopping is nearby at small local shops, the Bronx Mall, and large chain stores like Target and Barnes & Noble.
