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Inwood During the Great Depression

One of the most important if not enduring images of the Great Depression is Dorothea Lange’s haunting portrait of a migrant worker cradling her two young children. Her eyes tell a personal story of quiet desperation, while the photo itself serves as a tragic commentary on a country in the throes of economic devastation so [...]

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MyInwood Memories: Coal and Soap

Frequent MyInwood contributer Herb Maruska grew up in Inwood. His memories of post World War II Inwood are as detailed as they are fascinating. This time around Herb takes us into the kitchens, basement and furnace of his childhood home located in 157-159 Vermilyea. He calls this piece “Coal and Soap.” Thanks Herb for this [...]

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Second Annual Inwood Snow Day Video

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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Sherman Avenue in 1906

Back in 1906 the elevated IRT train (today’s one train) first reached Inwood. With it came the first true housing boom the neighborhood had ever seen. Seemingly overnight apartment buildings sprang up east of Broadway to house working class folks lured uptown by an affordable, and suddenly accessible, part of Manhattan. Below is a 1906 [...]

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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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Paterno’s Castle

Detail from Paterno Castle. Once located in Washington Heights.

In the late 1800’s Northern Manhattan was still very much a wilderness of farmland dotted with occasional country inns and taverns, but that rural tranquility would end with the industrial age. The clean air and remoteness of the area soon attracted newly minted millionaires who created splendid monuments to their own wealth. For a brief [...]

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Fort George Amusement Park

In 1895, on the same spot where George Washington and his band of Revolutionaries defended a British assault after the Battle of Brooklyn, a glorious and magnificent amusement park rivaling Coney Island opened near the northeastern end of Manhattan. The Fort George Amusement park was located in what is now Highbridge Park between 190th and [...]

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Happy Holidays Inwood

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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