Editing Washington Heights, Manhattan (section)

===Libraries===
The [[New York Public Library]] (NYPL) operates two branches in Washington Heights:
* The Fort Washington branch is located at 535 West 179th Street. The three-story [[Carnegie library]] opened in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Fort Washington Library|publisher=[[The New York Public Library]]|url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/fort-washington|access-date=March 23, 2019}}</ref>
* The Washington Heights branch is located at 1000 [[St. Nicholas Avenue]]. It was founded in 1868 as a subscription-based library and moved twice before it relocated to its current four-story structure in 1914, owing to generous donations from [[James Hood Wright]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Washington Heights Library|publisher=[[The New York Public Library]]|url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/washington-heights|access-date=March 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/645a8810-85f4-0131-a4a9-58d385a7b928#|access-date=May 2, 2020|year=1923|title=History of the New York Public Library: Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations|first=Harry Miller|last=Lydenberg|publisher=[[The New York Public Library]]}}</ref>{{Rp|189}}