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A Grain Field in City Limits: Inwood, 1895
New York Herald, July 14, 1895. A GRAIN FIELD IN CITY LIMITS NEW YORK HERALD July 14, 1895 It Waves at 211th Street Awaiting the Reaper and Is Manhattan’s Last IS ON HISTORICAL GROUND That Part of the...
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Inwood’s First Public School
“Ward or Public School No. 52 was a landmark on the southeast corner of Broadway and Academy Street from 1858 to almost 1957. This picture dates from about 1902, or midway of that period. Note the gas...
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Gangsters on the Dyckman Strip: 1931 Shootout Makes National Headlines
New York Times, August 22, 1931 “The final battle in which the bandits were killed was in front of 146 Dyckman Street. Here the bandits were overtaken in a taxicab driven by William Nugent and...
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Inwood’s 215th Street Incinerator Smokestacks
Inwood’s 215th Street Garbage Incinerator, Photograph from January 29, 1937, MCNY. “When the Mayor of New York dedicated the new incinerator at 215th Street and Ninth Avenue a little while ago, he said...
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A Buried City: The Blizzard of 1888
Blizzard of 1888, 11th Street. In March of 1888 New York City was slammed by one of the most devastating blizzards in recorded history. From March 11th to 15ththe city was buried underneath a...
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Inwood in Aviation History
On December 17, 1903 Orville Wright took to the skies above the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville and his brother Wilbur conducted their experimental flight tests in total secrecy....
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Tulip Tree of Old Inwood
“The Old Tulip Tree,” by Ernest Lawson. Before Inwood Hill Park, before there even was an Inwood, a mighty Tulip grew in the forest. In a new city lacking a sense of anything from antiquity, New...
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Asylums on Inwood Hill
House of Mercy, New York Herald, January 26, 1890. A century ago asylums and institutions lined the ridge of Inwood Hill. Inside these fortress-like structures, all demolished by Robert Moses in the...
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A Band of Gypsies
Today northern Manhattan is home to thousands of gypsy cabs, but step back a century in time and you would find a sleepy little farming community inhabited by, among others, real life European gypsies....
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The Inwood Pottery Studio: An Oral History with Lorrie Goulet
Lorrie Goulet poses in the Inwood Pottery Studios for a newspaper article about the impending closure of the Pottery. Since launching Myinwood.net I have posted quite a bit on the Inwood Pottery...
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215th Street Stairs
Generations of Inwood residents have trudged up and down the familiar stairs which connect Broadway with Park Terrace East. The steps themselves have stood frozen in time as the surrounding...
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“Recollections of Northern Manhattan” by William Calver
Much of what we know today about the history and pre-history of Inwood and Washington Heights is due largely to the turn of the century work of amateur historians, self taught archaeologists and close...
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Old Real Estate Ads from Inwood and Surrounding Area
Below are a collection of real estate advertisements from ages past. As both a real estate agent and fan of Inwood history, I found the below images fascinating. If you’ve lived in any of these...
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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 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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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...
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Inwood’s Indian Life Reservation
Incinerator and sign from Indian Life Reservation, photo by Reginald Pelham Bolton. In the winter of 1926 Inwood historian and local archeologist Reginald Pelham Bolton began work on a curious and...
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Isham Gardens
Isham Gardens Advertisement, New York Evening Post, 1924 Between Seaman Avenue & Park Terrace West Designed in 1924 by the architectural team of Springsteen and Goldhammer, Isham Gardens was the...
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From Dyckman Street to Treasure Island
Mrs. Addison J. Rothermel, New York Herald, January 24, 1909. Near the beginning of the last century, Mrs. Addison J. Rothermel faced both an agonizing loss and a difficult decision. Tuberculosis had...
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Happy Halloween
Every Halloween ghosts and goblins haunt the streets, parks and apartment buildings of Inwood–just as they have for hundreds of years. It is a spooky place where the spirit of a long dead magician...
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