Washington Heights
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Washington Heights may refer to some places in the United States
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Outside the United States:
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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- Washington Heights, ManhattanWashington Heights, ManhattanWashington Heights is a New York City neighborhood in the northern reaches of the borough of Manhattan. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest point on Manhattan island by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, to defend the area from the...
(New York City)- Washington Heights (film)Washington Heights (film)Washington Heights is a 2003 Lions Gate film directed by Alfredo De Villa and starring Manny Perez, Tomas Milian, and Danny Hoch. It concerns a young comic book artist and his struggle to deal with his father's paralysis following a robbery of his shop in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New...
, a 2003 film set in Washington Heights, Manhattan
- Washington Heights (film)
- Washington Heights, New YorkWashington Heights, New YorkWashington Heights is a census-designated place in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 1,318 at the 2000 census.Washington heights is a contiguous suburb of City of Middletown...
(Orange County) - Washington Heights, ChicagoWashington Heights, ChicagoWashington Heights, one of the 77 official community areas, is located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois, loosely bordered in the south by 107th street, the north by 89th street, the west by Beverly Avenue and the East by Eggleston Avenue. It was once a bedroom community of...
, Illinois - Washington Heights, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Washington Heights, Roanoke, VirginiaWashington Heights, Roanoke, VirginiaWashington Heights is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in northwest Roanoke, bound to the west by Virginia State Route 117. It borders the neighborhoods of Peachtree/Norwood on the west, South Washington Heights on the south, Villa Heights on the east and Westview Terrace on the north...
- Washington Heights, San Francisco, California
Outside the United States:
- Washington Heights, the name of the former US Army barracks and housing area during the occupation of Japan in what is now Yoyogi ParkYoyogi Parkis one of the largest parks in Tokyo, Japan located adjacent to Harajuku Station and Meiji Shrine in Shibuya.What is now Yoyogi Park was the site of the first successful powered aircraft flight in Japan, on December 19, 1910, by Captain Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, after which it became an army parade ground...
, TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...