Washington Heights
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Washington Heights is bordered by Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street, by Harlem to the south along 155th Street, by the Harlem River and Coogan's Bluff to the east, and by the Hudson River to the west.
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Getting to Washington Heights
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 9 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 26 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 26 km
- Philadelphia → Washington Heights144 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $13–18
- Hartford → Washington Heights146 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · $14–19
- Albany → Washington Heights201 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · $18–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Washington Heights
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Washington Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAlthough there isn’t a ferry in the city, Fort Lee can also be accessed by boat or ferry from New York City via Edgewater (Edgewater Ferry Landing) and Weehawken (Port Imperial Ferry) docks, on the NY Waterway service.
From Wikivoyage: Fort Lee, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Washington Heights
Washington Heights is 6 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.