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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

New York Historical Society, v34 no3, Quarterly, July 1950.

The Twelfth Milestone

Cole Thompson - June 7, 2017

1931 shootout on Dyckman Street near Sherman Avenue.

Gangster Stories & Rum: Dyckman Street in the 1930’s

Cole Thompson - May 31, 2017

Inwood Featured in 1968 Documentary: “Goodbye to Glocamorra”

admin - April 26, 2017

Hedgehog Inn, Inwood.

Inwood Taverns: Uptown Bar Memories

Cole Thompson - March 17, 2017

Durando's Club, Metropolitan Magazine, 1900

Billy Durando: King of the Harlem River Speedway

Cole Thompson - February 28, 2017

Eliza Hailton

Eliza Hamilton’s Legacy: An Uptown Library

Cole Thompson - February 9, 2017

Virginia Ornmark "Gun Girl and Gunman." Photograph by Weegee, Getty Image

Gun Girl: The Mob Moll of West 207th Street

Cole Thompson - October 21, 2016

1916 Bromley map. West 215th step street highlighted.

215th Street Steps: A Legacy of Neighborhood Preservation

Cole Thompson - August 17, 2016

1909 invitation to Suffrage meeting to gather at Seaman Drake arch, image from Library of Congress.

Votes for Women: Inwood’s Place in the Suffrage Movement

Cole Thompson - July 21, 2016

Dyckman Street sewage treatment plat highlighted in 1935 photo.

A River of Poop: The Dyckman Street Solution

Cole Thompson - June 2, 2016

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