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Inwood in Aviation History

Pilot Glenn Curtiss

On December 17, 1903 Orville Wright took to the skies above the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville and his brother Wilbur conducted their experimental flight tests in total secrecy.  While obsessed with flight, the Brothers Wright were more concerned with securing their patents. The Wright brothers had true cause for concern.  Fast [...]

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Pat Dunn’s Goat

Goat

In October of 1870 a young Catholic priest named Henry Brann was named Rector to a massive, though sparsely populated, parish that included the whole upper northwest portion of Manhattan and part of Westchester County. In a 1911 memoir, the then Monsignor Brann wrote that his parish included the “Spuyten Duyvil, Kingsbridge, Mosholu, and Riverdale, [...]

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Johnson Iron Works

Johnson Ironworks on the Spuyten Duyvil near Inwood, New York

Long before the familiar Henry Hudson Bridge guarded the entrance to the Spuyten Duyvil a giant, belching behemoth of the industrial era dominated the landscape. For Inwood and points immediately north the Johnson Iron Works represented, at its peak, a paycheck for some 1,600 employees and a polluting eyesore for others.

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Henry Hudson Bridge History

1909 postcard image of Henry Hudson from 300th anniversary celebration of Hudson River voyage.

When Henry Hudson and his crew of the Half Moon sailed into the inlet of the old Spuyten Duyvil in 1609 he could have never imagined the massive bridge that would one day bear his name.

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