Tour the Heights with Miranda

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda travels back home to New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood to revisit some of the inspirations for his first musical, In the Heights, as part of a virtual tour of “the greatest city in the world” in a new episode of Perspectives from Google Arts and Culture. Among the sites Miranda explores are the Morris-Jumel Mansion, where he worked on the musical Hamilton in the actual room where Aaron Burr lived, and the Drama Book Shop, which Miranda and three of his Hamilton collaborators purchased in 2019. Miranda also shares some of the history of how Washington Heights became Manhattan’s largest Latin American enclave.