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Inwood Hill Park Concession Stand: A Reader Contribution
Recently, MyInwood.net reader Frank Yannaco wrote in to tell me about the concession stand his family once owned and operated inside the Isham Street entrance to Inwood Hill Park. Inwood Hill Park...
View Article“The Acapulco Divers of the Spuyten Duyvil” : An Oral History with Former...
Former Inwood resident Mike Boland recalls cliff diving into the Spuyten Duyvil:
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Inwood’s Dyckman Street Ferry
On June 17, 1915 a procession of more than fifty automobiles gathered in Inwood to mark an historic occasion—the inauguration of the new Dyckman Street ferry, which would make its maiden voyage across...
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William H. Hurst House
530 West 215th Street at Park Terrace East Since moving into the neighborhood more than a decade ago, neighbors, some who’ve lived in the area for years, have asked, “What’s the deal with the beautiful...
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Spark Plug Inventor Gustave Herz and His Eclectic Inwood Home
Gustave Leoplold Herz 1919 passport application photo. On a steamy July day in the summer of 1918 Austrian inventor Gustave Herz purchased a large stable on the northern tip of Manhattan. While many...
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Inwood’s Old Magdalen Asylum
“That girl you saw in the dormitory,” a matron of the Magdalen Benevolent Society explained to the reporter. “She is really the worst girl in the place. I wouldn’t trust her out of my sight.” “Her...
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Tornado on the Hudson
“There may have been tornadoes in Manhattan Island before meteorological records were kept, but old inhabitants say that the one which cut a swath of nearly an eighth of a mile wide on the bluff of...
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The Spuyten Duyvil Railroad Disaster of 1882
“The body of Senator Wagner was a spectacle never to be forgotten. The head was burnt and charred beyond the possibility of recognition, the legs were burnt off and the trunk bruised and...
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Inwood’s Postal Past
“The crying need of the community, in which there are between 15,000 and 20,000 persons, is a branch post office in the region of 207th Street to serve a section which is growing faster than any other...
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Park Terrace Gardens Rises from the Ruins of the Old Seaman Mansion
New York Sun, November 5, 1938. In early November of 1938 newspapers around the globe trained their headlines on a stunning victory on the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The heroic story...
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5000 Broadway: An Enviable Address
Grenville Hall (5000 Broadway) in 1925. Source: NYHS Near the beginning of 1913 a truly modern apartment building opened for business on Broadway across the street from Isham Park. Located at 5,000...
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The Hoboken Turtle Club
“Dum vivimus vivamus” -Motto of the Hoboken Turtle Club According to legend, as the history of most social clubs is so often based, the Hoboken Turtle Club was founded in 1796. It is reputed to have...
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A Kangaroo on Dyckman Street
Kangaroo mascot aboard the USS Connecticut, 1908, Source: US Naval Historical Society. In the Fall of 1909 the battleship Wisconsin sat anchored off of Tubby Hook on the Hudson River preparing for a...
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Inwood Postcards
New York City has always been a popular subject when it comes to the world of postcards. I like to call the collection that follows “Postcards from the Edge.” For the most part, I’ve tried to focus on...
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The Harlem Ship Canal
“The Harlem Ship Canal was formally opened yesterday with elaborate and imposing ceremonies. The day was the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, and these two great events will now go down into...
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Inwood: The Bar Scene of Not So Long Ago
There was a time not so long ago when Inwood had a thriving bar scene. Up, down and between Dyckman Street and 207th, there were some 100, mainly Irish, bars. While a few bars, The Piper’s Kilt, The...
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Princess Naomi
Princess Naomie and her grandchildren in 1930′s photo taken by Reginald Bolton. Author’s note: Published reports and records vary about the spelling of Kennedy’s first name. According to descendants...
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The Arras Inn
Bad Girl by Vina Delmar In 1928 pulp fiction author Vina Delmar burst onto the publishing scene with “Bad Girl,” a shocking and scandalous exploration of pre-marital sex and pregnancy. At the time of...
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Miramar Saltwater Pool
Miramar Saltwater Pool, Inwood, 1933 As the dog days of summer approached, generations of children in Inwood, and around the City, looked forward to one thing only…The Miramar Saltwater Pool. Inwood’s...
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Fort George Amusement Park
“Harlem’s Coney Island has one great advantage over Everybody’s Coney Island, and that is it costs only a nickel to get there. Every nickel means a glass of beer or a frankfurter, and every East Sider...
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