There is a turn of the century photo of a small boathouse on the water’s edge in what is now Inwood Hill Park. The boathouse, run by “Pop” Seeley, supported a houseboat colony far from the noise and bustle of downtown. It would be many years before these house-boaters, artists and assorted eccentrics were given [...]
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A while back I wrote a history of the old Seaman mansion that once stood on the grounds currently occupied by Park Terrace Gardens. Today the only trace of the Seaman estate is the crumbling marble arch located down the hill on Broadway. The following description from 1869 finds the home occupied by its original [...]
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