Claremont Avenue

South of 120th Street, the eastern side of Claremont Avenue features the heavily fortified backside of the Barnard College campus.

The intersection of 116th Street and Claremont has been cited as one of the windiest in New York City.

[2] Strong winds from the direction of Riverside Park are commonly believed to be "funneled" by the opposing curved façades of The Paterno and The Colosseum.

[citation needed] 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.

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Riverside Church entrance on Claremont (foreground); a Union Theological Seminary dormitory is directly behind it