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5051 Broadway, currently home is a pay parking lot, is being offered up in a Government auction.

Uptown Auction: A Property with a Past

Cole Thompson - September 13, 2021

Votes for Women: An Uptown History

"The Slave's Burying Place," from scrapbook of Reginald Pelham Bolton.

Uptown’s Forgotten Slave Cemetery

Hurst House: A Forgotten Relic of Uptown’s Gilded Age

Walter (left), Otway (right), and Ursula Burns play in a fountain on Inwood Hill overlooking the Hudson River on the grounds of Ursulian Terrace, the family home. (Photo courtesy: Peter Landry)

Paranormal Inwood: The Strange Case of Walter Francis Burns

Transylvania Restaurant Riverdale Press, November 23, 1972.

The Transylvania Restaurant: Dyckman’s Culinary Evolution

Cole Thompson - October 18, 2019

The Other Dyckman House: Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

Cole Thompson - September 20, 2019

Myndert’s Fly: Inwood’s Forgotten Meadow

Cole Thompson - September 18, 2019

1962 New York Telephone boiler explosion.

The Telephone Company Explosion of 1962

Cole Thompson - July 29, 2019

Cows on Inwood Hill

Inwood Hill Park: Historical Timeline

admin - April 7, 2019

Capitol Restaurant, Inwood, NYC.

Capitol Diner

Cole Thompson - April 6, 2019

Detail from 1819 Randel Farm Map. Note Tubby Hook featured in upper right.

Tubby Hook: Now Known as Inwood

Cole Thompson - October 6, 2018

Hollywood on The Hudson: Silent Film Stars

Cole Thompson - December 16, 2017

Park Terrace Gardens

Park Terrace Gardens

admin - December 15, 2017

207th Street subway platform in 1912.

Resistance on the Subway: The Straphanger Revolt of 1911

Cole Thompson - August 23, 2017

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