OUR NEIGHBORHOOD<\/p>\n
515 Edge\u00adcombe Avenue (\u201ccombe\u201d is derived from an Anglo-Sax\u00adon word mean\u00ading \u201chill\u201d) is locat\u00aded in a neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood bathed in his\u00adto\u00adry. Just 2 blocks away is the his\u00adtoric Mor\u00adris-Jumel Man\u00adsion, where George Wash\u00ading\u00adton made his head\u00adquar\u00adters in the fall of 1776 dur\u00ading the bat\u00adtle of Harlem Heights. This avenue was also the home address of Duke Elling\u00adton, Count Basie, Paul Robe\u00adson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Thur\u00adgood Mar\u00adshall.<\/p>\n
North of High\u00adbridge park is a woodsy area with\u00adin which lies a land\u00admark schist rock that pokes through the dirt called Coogan\u2019s Bluff. This site for\u00admer\u00adly over\u00adlooked the Polo Grounds, the sta\u00addi\u00adum where the New York Giants played for over 5 decades. It is named after James Coogan, Man\u00adhat\u00adtan Bor\u00adough Pres\u00adi\u00addent, who sold the land to New York Giants own\u00ader John T. Brush, who moved the Giants to the sec\u00adond Polo Grounds in 1891.<\/p>\n
OUR BUILDING<\/p>\n
515 Edge\u00adcombe Avenue was built in 1923. It was con\u00advert\u00aded to a coop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtive in 1987. The build\u00ading is a 5\u2011story walk-up with 21 units. It is cur\u00adrent\u00adly XX per cent own\u00ader occu\u00adpied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD 515 Edge\u00adcombe Avenue (\u201ccombe\u201d is derived from an Anglo-Sax\u00adon word mean\u00ading \u201chill\u201d) is locat\u00aded in a neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood bathed in his\u00adto\u00adry. Just 2 blocks away is the his\u00adtoric Mor\u00adris-Jumel Man\u00adsion, where George Wash\u00ading\u00adton made his head\u00adquar\u00adters in the fall of 1776 dur\u00ading the bat\u00adtle of Harlem Heights. This avenue was also the home address \u2026 <\/p>\n