Starting in the late 1800′s various institutions serving alcoholics, drug addicts, tuberculosis patients, petty criminals, runaways and “women of ill repute” lined the ridge in what is now Inwood Hill Park. Of these bleak fortresses of infirmity, born of era when inebriates were often treated with hypodermic injections of nitrate of strychnine and married women [...]
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