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[[File:Riverside Ch back jeh.jpg|thumb|[[Riverside Church]] entrance on Claremont (foreground); a Union Theological Seminary dormitory is directly behind it]]
'''Claremont Avenue''' is a short avenue in the [[Morningside Heights, Manhattan|Morningside Heights]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. It begins at [[116th Street (Manhattan)|116th Street]] and runs north for a length of eleven blocks until it ends at Tiemann Place (the western segment of [[127th Street (Manhattan)|127th Street]]).

== Structures ==
South of [[120th Street (Manhattan)|120th Street]], the eastern side of Claremont Avenue features the heavily fortified backside of the [[Barnard College]] campus. The western side features various [[Columbia University]] [[professor]]s' apartments, as well as Columbia and Barnard undergraduate [[dormitory|residence halls]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Gray (architectural historian)|title=Streetscapes/116th to 120th Streets, Broadway to Claremont Avenue; Architecture of Barnard, in the Shadow of Columbia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/realestate/streetscapes-116th-120th-streets-broadway-claremont-avenue-architecture-barnard.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=12 January 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 7, 2003}}</ref>

North of 120th Street, the west side of Claremont Avenue contains [[Riverside Church]] and a dormitory of the [[Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York|Union Theological Seminary]], and the east side contains the seminary itself. Beyond this, the street passes along [[Sakura Park]] to the west, and the [[International House of New York]] also to the west. The [[Manhattan School of Music]] has occupied the former [[Juilliard School]] building at 130 Claremont Avenue since Juilliard moved to [[Lincoln Center]] in 1969. For the northernmost few blocks, apartment buildings line the street. An outcropping of the [[Manhattan schist]] interrupts the row of buildings on the west side of the street between [[La Salle Street (Manhattan)|La Salle Street]] and Tiemann Place.

The intersection of 116th Street and Claremont has been cited as one of the windiest in New York City.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/08/nyregion/with-skyscrapers-a-windy-day-is-windier.html?pagewanted=all|title=With Skyscrapers, a Windy Day Is Windier|last1=McGill|first1=Douglas|date=December 8, 1983|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=12 January 2016}}</ref> Strong winds from the direction of [[Riverside Park (Manhattan)|Riverside Park]] are commonly believed to be "funneled" by the opposing curved façades of [[The Paterno]] and [[The Colosseum (Manhattan)|The Colosseum]].{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}

== In popular culture ==
The protagonists in [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s 1922 novel ''[[The Beautiful and Damned]]'', Anthony and Gloria Gilbert, moved into an apartment on Claremont Avenue in the novel's last book.<ref>[[s:The Beautiful and Damned/Book Three/Chapter III|"No Matter!"]], ''The Beautiful and Damned'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Claremont Avenue (Manhattan)}}

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