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Inwood Bathing Beach: 1906

As summer winds down, I thought it might be fun to share a photo of an old swimming hole that used to be a source of great fun and entertainment near the turn of the last century. The area, on the bank of the Hudson River at Dyckman Street was called the “Inwood Bathing Beach.” [...]

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Inwood Hill Park Concession Stand: A Reader Contribution

Recently, MyInwood.net reader Frank Yannaco wrote in to tell me about the concession stand his family once owned and operated inside the Isham Street entrance to Inwood Hill Park. We soon began a dialogue that included a promise of photos and descriptions of his life in Inwood. True to his word, Frank soon emailed me [...]

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Inwood’s First Public School

PS 52, Inwood New York City, 1905 postcard

In 1858, the year Inwood’s first school was constructed , the area wasn’t even yet known by its current name. Locals, of whom there were few, all referred to the region on Manhattan’s northernmost tip as “Tubby Hook.” Folks downtown hardly even considered the backwater region as being part of their city. So imagine the [...]

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Johnson Ironworks: Reader Challenge

Not long ago I received an email from MyInwood.net reader Cherie Magee with an inquiry into the Johnson Ironworks, once located on Inwood’s Spuyten Duyvil. It seems Cherie had inherited some old family photographs along with a generations old story about an ancestor who may have worked at the ironworks. She wrote: “I was doing [...]

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Inwood: The Bar Scene of Not So Long Ago

There was a time not so long ago when Inwood had a thriving bar scene. Up, down and between Dyckman Street and 207th, there were some 100, mainly Irish, bars. While a few bars, The Piper’s Kilt, The Liffy, Irish Eyes, as well as a few others still remain, most disappeared as the demographics of [...]

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Inwood Chatter: January, 1944

In this January, 1944 edition of the “Inwood Chatter,” produced by the students of P.S. 52 in Inwood, New York City, the nation remained locked in the grips of the Second World War. It must have been a trying time for the children of Inwood as funerals of returning dead, war rations and talk of [...]

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Inwood Chatter, June, 1943

My grandmother used to have a saying: “Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do, or do without.” She had learned the expression during World War II and it stuck with her for the rest of her life. In June of 1943, the students of P.S. 52 in Inwood were learning similar expressions, or, [...]

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The Creepiest Playground in Inwood’s History

Not long ago, a descendant of George W. Hadley contacted me. She was working on her family tree and had seen her ancestor’s name in a post on this website. I told her that George Hadley had been buried in an old cemetery on 212th Street east of Broadway, but that the graves had all [...]

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