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In the summer of 2008, the NoMa [Northern Manhattan] Photo Group mounted an exhibition called “Vague Terrain: Manhattanville” at City College Art Gallery.

The exhibition presented the discoveries of an eclectic clan of photographers who spent over a year chronicling the architecture, artifacts and people of Manhattanville, whose boundaries extend from 122nd Street to 135th Street between the Hudson River and St. Nicholas Park in Harlem.

“Vague Terrain”^* identified this particular urban unit as a viable neighborhood and served as a photographic testimonial of an expedition during a period of ongoing and dramatic changes for the community.

Note: this site is in development. Please check back soon. In the meantime, visit Manhattanville or NoMaphoto on flickr.

* The term terrain vague was coined by Spanish architect and critic Ignasi de Sola-Morales to describe urban environments full of ambiguous spaces — where there is beautiful tension between an area’s architecture and its environment, where the space is in some way strange, unresolved or unsettling.

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