Washington Heights is just south of Inwood in northern Manhattan. It is the highest point in Manhattan and thus was home to Fort Washington during the Revolutionary War, and thus got its name. Throughout history, it has been a home to many influxes of immigrant populations from the Irish in the early 1900s to Greeks in the 1960s, but became mainly populated by a Dominican crowd in the 1980s. Over the next 20 years, it was largely an area overrun by poverty and the drug-trade, but urban renewal has been drawing it out of its lowest point since the early 2000s. It remains largely Dominican in residential makeup and is also home to Yeshiva University and Boricua College.