Inwood Farmer’s Market: Spring 2012
Here are a few photos I shot at the Inwood Farmer’s Market today, April 15, 2012. The vendors and customers are out every Saturday morning year-round and today everyone found themselves enjoying the...
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A Civil War Veteran and His Inwood Truck Farm
Union recruiting poster. Imagine yourself a soldier returning from the Civil War. Disoriented. Jobless. Before that bloody War Between the States you had been a farmer. A New York City farmer at...
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1943 “Inwood Chatter” Advertisements: Now and Then
Inwood Chatter Cover, June 1943. Not long ago I posted the contents of a June, 1943 issue of the “Inwood Chatter,” essentially a scrapbook put together by local schoolchildren and sponsored by local...
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The Undiscovered Country: Northern Manhattan in 1904
In 1904 Inwood’s first modern apartment building appeared on the corner of Dyckman and Broadway (then still referred to by many as the Kingsbridge road). The erection of the Solano and Monida...
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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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Relic Hunting in Northern Manhattan
Reginald Pelham Bolton (left) and William Calver (right) in undated photo shot in Northern Manhattan. “I chanced to visit an old inn near Fort George some years ago and I noticed a human skull that...
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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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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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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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Lost Inwood: The Uptown Arts Stroll Edition: 2012
TUESDAY JUNE 5th at 7:30PM at the Indian Road Cafe Ernest Lawson – Master Painter of the Washington Heights Landscape. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, noted american impressionist Ernest Lawson...
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Inwood’s Mission of the Redeemer
G.W. Bromley and Company, 1922. Not long ago, before a presentation of Inwood History Night, regular attendee Michael Frank turned up with a massive 1922 edition of Bromley’s atlas of New York....
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Wonderland
New York Times, September 16, 1904. Shortly after the turn of the century a small group of investors, led by real estate “wheeler-dealer” Andrew J. Cobe, made a land grab in northern Manhattan. Their...
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1906: Inwood’s Last Remaining Orchards and Pasturelands
“The track of the subway system, crawling on innumerable legs, finds its way toward the northeast in great curves and disappears beneath a distant range of hills. The next station is 207th street. A...
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Tornado on the Hudson
NY Tribune July 3, 1901 In the summer of 1901 Gotham suffered the deadliest heat wave in New York City history. From June 29-July 6th at least 989 individuals perished in weather so hot it melted...
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The Mysterious Rock Snake of Cooper Street
Just south of 207th on Cooper Street there stands an unusual rock outcropping that has somehow survived generations of urban development. This however is not a lesson in geology, though there is...
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William LaMorte Family Bread Advertisement
History is often full of surprises. Now and then, when digging through old newspapers, I’ll encounter something wonderfully unexpected. Such was the case with the accompanying bread advertisement I...
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20 MPH Slow Zone for Inwood: A Century in the Making
In June of 2012 the Department of Transportation announced a plan designating parts of Inwood a slow zone. According to the DOT, neighborhood slow zone programs typically reduce speed limits from 30...
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Inwood’s Dyckman Street Dump: 1914
New York Herald, June 28, 1914. Summer in the city. The stifling heat, air thick with humidity and, yes, the smell of garbage roasting in the sun. These are all components of city life we learn to...
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The Sea Monster of Old Inwood
Turn of the Century Hudson River fisherman. Being surrounded by water on three sides fishing has long been both a pastime, and even an industry, throughout the history of Inwood. Even the Native...
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