Comments on: Now & Then

By: janice

janice — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:48:53 +0000

this is a t-mobile store now

By: Roberta Cohn Kaplan

Roberta Cohn Kaplan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:14:19 +0000

I grew up in Inwood too – at 110 Post Avenue. Looking at these photos was a joy; so many old memories. I vividly recall playing stickball and “king and queen” outside of my building. Does anyone recall the snowstorm that covered the tops of the cars? (circa 1950s) We walked on top of them for days.

By: Jim McDonald

Jim McDonald — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:21:04 +0000

I lived at 536 Isham St. graduated GSS 1946, lived at 5025 Broadway, attended Manhattan Prep/ and College.
Married and continued to live in Inwood until 1981.
The site is wonderful. Thank you for the memories.

By: MARIA GUZMAN

MARIA GUZMAN — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:40:13 +0000

I LIVED IN VERMILYA MY WHOLE LIFE THIS HAS CHANGEDDD SOOO MUCH

By: Marvina White

Marvina White — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:13:11 +0000

Thank you for an amazing trip back home. I grew up at 3736 10th Avenue, in the Dyckman Projects. I was born in 1949 and lived there from 1950-1967. Right here on the wall in my study, I’ve got my 9th grade JHS 52 class picture. So exciting to read about and see pictures of that school and my old neighborhood. It was a great place to grow up. I cannot thank you enough for putting this up. I learned a lot.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:37:24 +0000

What a great site! Thanks so much for the memories. Lived at 44 Seaman Ave. Walked to school – PS 98 and then JHS 52. Great neighborhood. Played in the parks and the Cloisters. Public library right down the block. Great bakery on Dyckman and Broadway too!

By: Helen West Joyce

Helen West Joyce — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:31:48 +0000

I lived at 128 Seaman Avenue in Inwood with my parents and 8 younger sisters. I attended Good Shepherd School – graduated in 1962 and then St. Simon Stock HS, Class of 1966. I now live in New Hampshire and have been married for 42 years to a Highbridge “boy”, Kevin Joyce. I had such a wonderful educational experience, that I eventually became an educator myself – a high school Social Studies teacher and Assistant Principal in NH.
Our daughter was born in Inwood and still remembers Joe’s Snack Shack….I have wonderful memories of my childhood there. I wish those neighborhoods still existed for my 3 grandchildren….Thank you for sharing these great times with us!

By: Marian Hausler Hartman

Marian Hausler Hartman — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:59:31 +0000

Your web site brought back sweet memories of growing up on Sickles St., then my folks moving to West 204th after I got married.
Thanks.

By: Tom Donnelly

Tom Donnelly — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:02:01 +0000

Great pics & wonderful memories. I lived at 256 Seaman from 1965 to 1978 (right up the block from the main gate at Bakers Field). Kindergarden at PS 98 and Good Shepherd (class of 1975). Inwood was a great place to grow up… hopefully it still is. I don’t get up to the old neighborhood too often.

By: janice

janice — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:29:03 +0000

great seeing the historical pictures! PS 52 is the only building that looks exactly the same! i lived across from ps 52 from 1962 til 1979 then moved to Seaman ave and 204 th st. i now live on cooper and 204th. my dad lived here from 1919 til 2009 on arden st and sherman ave then academy then Seaman.

thanks and i hope you redo some updates. the old verizon building has been upgraded and new restaurants have popped up on broadway above 207 th! take care!

By: Ana

Ana — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:32:45 +0000

I grew up in Inwood, lived on Sherman Ave &; 207th, graduated from Good Shepherd in 1985 and seeing pictures of my old streets as they once were is a real time capsule into Inwood’s past. Thanks so much for the excellent work in compiling this!

By: Linda Stein

Linda Stein — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:49:34 +0000

I lived at 57 Park Terrace East and then 60 Park Terrace West. Anyone remember Jack Goldman?

By: Josh Orlan

Josh Orlan — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:36:19 +0000

Wow! What a great site! I was born in Inwood in 1960, lived at 77 Park Terrace East, across from Judge Murtagh of Black Panthers trial fame, his son is my age. My Dad, born in Munich, died there in September, 1964. My grandparents lived at 72 Park Terrace West, my grandmother until 1987. We had lots of great friends and Inwood and Park Terrace will always be part of me. Many hours spent in Isham Park, Indian Hill Park and 207th Street. Haven Pizza, Rings, Arnold the Butcher, all great Inwood establishments that I fondly remember.

Thanks for creating this great site and bringing back so many great memories.
Josh Orlan

By: Annette

Annette — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:48:03 +0000

Thank you so much for compiling these wonderful now and then photos. My parents raised all of us kids in an Apt on West 211st. They lived in that apt over 50 yrs and now my mother lives on Seaman and 215th. Inwood Hill park and the surrounding neighborhood hold so many wonderful memories. Thank you especially for the Tulip Tree picture where the Indians sold Manhattan island. When I was in PS 98 I remember the dedication of Shorakkpoch Rock but never saw the great tulip tree that stood there. Please keep up the great work!

By: Anne Dwyer Metzger

Anne Dwyer Metzger — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:08:57 +0000

Moved to Inwood shortly before I started school in 1944. Graduated from Good Shepherd in 1951, and from Cathedral High School in 1955. Lived on Sherman Avenue and 207th Street.
Would like to make contact with people who lived there to reminisce about the time and place.

By: dandaman

dandaman — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:48:17 +0000

It’s clear from these photos that the northern tip of Manhattan hasn’t changed the way other neighborhoods further to the south have; many of the apartment houses built in the 1920′s still stand. Today, many of them have been converted to condominiums, and Inwood offers great values to recent immigrants and young men and women launching careers in New York. In fact, I saw in the Times that Inwood is known around Lincoln Center as the “diva neighborhood,” because of all the Met singers living there.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:46:16 +0000

What ever happened to the Speedway Inn before the projects went up and the Dyckman Oval was torn down or was there tennis courts there????

By: luis

luis — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:24:15 +0000

I was born 1970 and i love my neighborhood i lived at 230 seaman on 215st. for 15yrs. and all though im only 40 i got to tell you that seeing those pics are amazing i cant stop looking at them your doing a good job keep up the good work as well as your news letter, way kool!

By: Jerry Sweeney

Jerry Sweeney — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:29:15 +0000

jerrry sweeney, ilived in Inwood from 1940 till 1960. It was a great neighborhood to growup in, with Inwood_Hill park, Ft. Tyron with the Cloisters to roam around in . Ilived at 30 Cooper st , wentto G.S. 1946 to1952,then to St. Simon Stock H.S., in da Bx. I now live in Middle Village, N.Y. Your newsletter on Inwood is the absolute best keep up this terrific job.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:57:55 +0000

Wow! Talk about your Kodak moments. I lived in Inwood from 1952(birth year) to 1976. I attended OLQM GWHS and Lehman College.

Your research and gifted photographic eye have captured the essence of the Inwood we know and will always love.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane

Best wishes