Washington Heights, Fort George Hill between Dyckman Street and Fairview Avenue

Mary Sargent © 2007 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

This is pretty much the top of Fort George Hill looking back. It just doesn't seem like Manhattan to me. More like some wooded road in Virginia. If you take away the people on the sidewalk. And the apartment buildings at the bottom.

This information from Naming New York: In 1776, the American rebel forces erected a fort on Laurel Hill located approximately where today's Audubon and Fort George Avenues intersect. The British captured it and named it Fort George in honor of their king.

The Hill part of the name you can figure out for yourself.