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Pat Dunn’s Goat

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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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Turn of the Century Inwood

1892 photo of young woman in Inwood, New York.

Inwood at the turn of the century was a neighborhood in flux. Old sketches capture a frontier-like atmosphere, where dirt roads,  saloons and churches seem to be the only infrastructure. The churches were in fact the glue that held this fragile little community together and some of the best descriptions we have of the era [...]

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The Naming of Inwood

Ernest Lawson painting of old tulip tree in Inwood, New York.

Believe it or not, our neighborhood was not always called “Inwood.” The name has served the area well for some 160 years, but prior to that much  of Manhattan north of Dyckman was affectionately called “Tubby Hook.”

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