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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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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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99 Cent Store Fire

Fire at the 99 Cent Zone in Inwood, New York City

 An early morning fire gutted the “99 Cent Zone”, a popular bargain shop on 207th just east of Broadway, last night.

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Inwood’s New Grocery

Strawberry

After months of nervous anticipation, Inwood’s newest grocery store opened this morning on 216th and Broadway. The signs outside the new Antillana Food Plaza promise fresh meat, fish and produce and judging from the smiling faces wandering the aisles, this new kid on the block doesn’t seem to disappoint. A tour of the new grocery [...]

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Drums Along the Hudson

Drums Along the Hudson, Inwood Hill Park Native American Festival, May 2009

 Four hundred years ago  Henry Hudson and his crew of the Half Moon first encountered the Lenape Indians living and thriving near the mouth of the Spuyten Duyvil. Flash forward to the eighth annual Drums Along the Hudson: A Native American Festival enjoyed by young, old, Native American and Native New Yorker alike.

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