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Inwood’s Sherman Creek Power Generating Station
Sherman Creek power generating station, 1951. Tucked behind the salt grass of Sherman Creek, along the western bank of the Harlem River, hides a green oasis of winding pathways known as Swindler Cove....
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Inwood Snow Day 2014
We’re back at Park Terrace Gardens with James on January 21, 2014 for another Inwood Snow Day. (See some of James’ past performances here and here) Snow storm in Inwood, New York City, January 21,...
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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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Inwood Remembers: Fay’s Lobster Restaurant: 207th Street and Broadway
Chef’s Suggestions: Fresh broiled lobster: $1.50 Crab cocktail: 50¢ Porterhouse steak for two: $5.00 Sloe Gin Fizz: 45 ¢ Fays Lobster on Broadway near 207th Street. With new restaurants opening up with...
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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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History of Inwood’s Isham Park
“As the population crowds around the park in commercial and residential buildings, this breathing space of exceptional beauty, with its varied topography, will be more and more appreciated and remain a...
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Inwood Business Advertisements: 1975-1976
Alpine Theater, 208 Dyckman Street, Jaws. Decades before Inwood had Starbucks, frozen yogurt and sushi arrived in Inwood, another generation of business owners serviced the district. The following...
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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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Lost Inwood History Talk: Dickensian Inwood (April 1st at the Indian Road Cafe)
Lost Inwood history series at the Indian Road Cafe, Tuesday, April 1st at 7:30 PM. Cows in Baker field circa 1883. When we look fondly back on Inwood’s past we like to imagine a tranquil land of green...
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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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Miramar Saltwater Pool
“They played music, too. If you went under, you couldn’t hear it, and when you surfaced, there it was! Walking home (I lived on Post) I remember that heavy, exhausted feeling, and also feeling like I...
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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 1931: The Dyckman Street Madonna
Squatters colony for unemployed workers (“Camp Dyckman”) Just north of Dyckman on the Hudson River, 1934. In 1931 Inwood was two years into the throes of the greatest economic downturn this nation has...
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