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El Gallito: 1935 Sixto Escobar Fight in the Dyckman Oval
Sixto Escobar (left) and Lou Salica fight in the Dyckman Oval, 14th round, August 26,1935. (Collection of Cole Thompson) On a summer evening in 1935 some fifteen thousand boxing fans gathered under the...
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Masters of Pulp: The First Residents of Park Terrace Gardens
Dogs Playing Poker by former Park Terrace Gardens resident Arthur Sarnoff. In the spring of 1940 Federal Census taker Katherine Lee began knocking on doors in Park Terrace Gardens. The sprawling...
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Tony Sbarbaro: Thayer Street Jazz Legend
As early as 1940 drummer Antonio Sparbaro lived inside 35 Thayer Street in the Inwood section of Manhattan. The 43-year-old likely stood out in the blue collar building a block south of Dyckman...
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Inwood on Canvas: Two Centuries of Art
For more than a century artists have visited Manhattan’s northern end to sketch, paint and photograph. Today artistic interpretations of Inwood Hill Park, the Spuyten Duyvil, the Harlem River, and the...
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Edward van Sloan: The Vampire Slayer of Seaman Avenue
Dracula (1931) Edward van Sloan (l) with Bela Lugosi. If current Inwood residents were transported back to the 1930’s they might find the area a bit strange, if not spooky. Ramshackle homes and...
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Inwood: Heavy Industry
Johnson Ironworks on the Spuyten Duyvil in 1918, photo by William Hassler, NYHS. Passing through the lush parks and tree-lined streets of Inwood it is hard to imagine that the area was once home to...
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Inwood in Aviation History
“I was near Inwood-on-the-Hudson when I noticed a tiny speck in the air far up the Hudson. It was coming like the Twentieth Century Limited, and I knew right away that it was Curtiss. On it came, all...
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New York Velodrome
New York Velodrome, Spuyten Duyvil near 225th Street, circa 1920′s. On 225th Street near the Harlem River, roughly where the Target department store sits today, once stood one of the great Gotham...
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1916: Illustrated Inwood
Dyckman House, The Pittsburgh Press, July 2, 1916, sketch by Herb Roth. In 1916 popular newspaper illustrator Herb Roth visited the Inwood region. While there he sketched the Dyckman farmhouse and...
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Prehistoric Inwood: Mastodons in Our Midst
Niagra Falls Gazette, March 26, 1925. In warm weather the Dyckman Strip is a lively scene replete with music, the clink of cocktail glasses, laughter and animated conversation. As brunch winds down,...
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