Fort George (New York)

Present-day Fort George neighborhood[edit]

The site of the fifth fort, in upper Manhattan, is on a hill at the northern end of the Washington Heights neighborhood. The site of the fort became a site of an Victorian-era amusement park. From 1895 to 1914, the fort was the site of the Fort George Amusement Park and is now the location of George Washington Educational Campus and part of Highbridge Park. Fort George Hill is also the name of a present-day street that encircles the fort's site.^[7]


The area encompassing the hill is also called Fort George, and is considered a sub-neighborhood of Washington Heights. It is sometimes given as West 181st Street to Dyckman Street, other times a smaller north/south area, east of Broadway to the Harlem River.^[8][9] However, the name Fort George is not widely used by New Yorkers and could be considered an example of neighborhood rebranding.^[10][11]