washington heights

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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Late 19th Century Inwood- Part I

Photo of William Calver

Much of what we know today about the history and pre-history of Inwood and Washington Heights  is due largely to the turn of the century work of amateur historians, self taught  archaeologists  and close friends William Calver and Reginald Bolton.  Starting in the 1880′s Bolton and Calver began exploring northern Manhattan with picks and shovels, [...]

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