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Fire Today: April 21, 2010 at 30 Cooper Street

Today, around 2:15,  I stepped out  into the fine spring air for a quick stroll. Noticing smoke rising from Cooper Street, I dashed back to the New Heights Realty office and borrowed Rob Kleinbardt’s camera. Firemen were already on the scene as I approached–smashing windows, dousing flames and helping residents escape the smoke billowing from [...]

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Spring has Sprung in Inwood

Spring in Inwood, New York City, April, 2010.

If you haven’t been outside, or are in some far away land such as Argentina, I thought you might like to see some of the splendor of Spring 2010…Inwood style.  Hope you enjoy the slideshow.

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Second Annual Inwood Snow Day Video

snowflake

While last week’s blizzard missed upper Manhattan, today’s snowstorm really clobbered us.  Some reports even say we’re in the middle of another blizzard.  It certainly feels like it. A special thanks to Jimmy, a Park Terrace Gardens porter, for cutting it up in what is becoming a MyInwood tradition. See last year’s “Inwood Snow Day” [...]

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Inwood T-shirts for sale

What better way top show your pride in the neighborhood than sporting an Inwood T-shirt?  Right now I have three basic designs to choose from.  The shirts themselves are all high quality “Hanes Beefy-T’s”  and come in a variety of sizes. The first t-shirt says all it needs to: “Inwood” in green print on a [...]

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Happy Holidays Inwood

Prohibition cartoon

Happy Holidays Inwood.  It is chilly outside, so bundle up as you make your way to your various festivities. And what would the season be without a few memories of yesteryear? The following photos were taken on Broadway near Academy Street in December of 1925. The city was entering its fifth year of Prohibition and [...]

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Happy Halloween

Ghost stories and other macabre tales from Inwood, New York City.

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 might bump into the specter of a headless Hessian, where a Dutch trumpeter fights with the devil himself and cries from [...]

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A Tree Falls in Inwood

Mark Chisholm cuts down tree in Isham Park in Inwood, New York City

The next time you pass through Isham Park you’ll likely notice a stump where a massive Norway Maple used to stand. Sadly, the towering giant was diseased and needed to come down. In true Inwood fashion, the tree felling quickly became a neighborhood event. As sawdust flew from up high, city workers and curious neighbors [...]

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Uptown Arts Stroll: Featured Artist Sky Pape

Inwood Hill Park photo

Artists, working in a variety of mediums, have long been attracted to Inwood.  From impressionist Ernest Lawson painting his ever changing views of the Spuyten Duyvil to sculptor George Grey Barnard who found quiet inspiration in his Fort Tryon studio, the area was and still is teeming with creative minds. For the last seven years [...]

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