Editing Washington Heights, Manhattan (section)

===Fort Washington Park===
[[File:Inspiration Point Shelter from south.jpg|thumb|Next to the [[Hudson River Greenway]], [[Inspiration Point (Hudson River Greenway)|Inspiration Point]] was once a popular rest stop for pedestrians and motorists.<ref name=flickering/>]]
Washington Heights' [[Fort Washington Park (Manhattan)|Fort Washington Park]] runs from 155th Street to Dyckman Street along the Hudson River, meeting the [[George Washington Bridge]] at Jeffrey's Hook (around 178th Street).<ref name=fortwashingtonpark>[http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-washington-park Fort Washington Park], [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]]. Retrieved April 27, 2016.</ref> The 184-acre park was originally designed in 1873 by [[Fredrick Law Olmsted]] along with [[Riverside Park (Manhattan)|Riverside Park]] and [[Morningside Park (Manhattan)|Morningside Park]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEOw_tc51PQC&pg=PA3|title=Riverside Park: The Splendid Sliver|last1=Grimm|first1=E.|last2=Schroeder|first2=E.P.|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-231-51219-0}}</ref>{{Rp|4}} and most of the park was acquired via [[eminent domain]] between 1896 and 1927.<ref name=fortwashingtonhighlights/> Although it was initially connected with Fort Tryon Park to the east (a condition for [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]]'s donation of the Fort Tryon parkland),<ref name=forttryonhd/> the 1937 construction of the [[Henry Hudson Parkway]] separated the two parks.<ref name=fortwashingtonhighlights/>

Sitting just underneath the George Washington Bridge is the [[Little Red Lighthouse]], which was originally built in 1917 in [[Sandy Hook, New Jersey]] before being moved to aid with navigation in the Hudson River during the 1920s.<ref name="lighthouse">[http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-washington-park/highlights/11044 The Little Red Lighthouse], [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]]. Retrieved April 27, 2016.</ref> After the George Washington Bridge opened in 1931, the lighthouse became obsolete, and the [[United States Coast Guard]] began planning to dismantle and auction it.<ref name=NRIS/> After a public outcry, contributed to by [[Hildegarde Swift]]'s popular children's book ''The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge,'' the lighthouse was instead given to the city government in 1951.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://historichousetrust.org/houses/little-red-lighthouse/|access-date=March 26, 2021|title=Little Red Lighthouse|publisher=[[Historic House Trust]]}}</ref> Having undergone renovation in 1986 and again in 2000, the lighthouse is available for tours {{as of|2021|lc=y}} and is honored in the annual Little Red Lighthouse Festival.<ref name=NRIS>{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://riversideparknyc.org/event/little-red-lighthouse-festival-4/?instance_id=8638|publisher=Riverside Park Conservancy|date=March 3, 2019|access-date=March 26, 2021|title=Little Red Lighthouse Festival|archive-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194228/https://riversideparknyc.org/event/little-red-lighthouse-festival-4/?instance_id=8638|url-status=dead}}</ref>