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For a flat fee, you can sit on the NYC subway’s longest train line — the A train — from 207th St in Inwood all the way out to the Atlantic Ocean at Far Rockaway. I haven’t done this yet, but Kevin P., a Listings Agent at RDNY.com who lives in Inwood, has done it and he says it takes about 2 hours, one way.
The whole time I’m on the 31 miles of the A Train, I’ll probably be humming Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Take the A Train. It only takes one hearing of this song to get it stuck in your head. It was written in 1942 and I always thought it was about a real train, like a locomotive, until I moved to NYC and found out that NYers called the subway the train.
You must take the A train / To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem / If you miss the A train / You’ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem
Which brings me to the point of this post: Sugar Hill. There’s not a lot of rentals in this neighborhood because this is a small neighborhood with mostly single family classic brownstones. If you ever see a rental listing in Sugar Hill, jump on it and check it out. It won’t last long.
Sugar Hill was the home to many of the men and women whose talents and uniqueness fueled the Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston, Eunice Hunton Carter, George S. Schuyler, and Ralph Ellison.
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