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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

Beak Street

Beak Street: The Umbrella Merchant Behind Manhattan’s Shortest Street

Cole Thompson - April 28, 2016

Original caption: 6/2/1917-"Somewhere in New York City," just a few blocks from the upper boundary, to be exact, the Inwood Community Garden Association is cultivating a stretch of ground, composed of 60 lots, each 20 by 40 feet, in persuance of President Wilson's recent call to the people to raise their own food. This photo shows Japanese people working on one of the plots. The man is Dr. Minosuke Yamaguchi and the rest are Mrs. H. Muroyama and her family. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Tokyo on the Hudson: Inwood’s Early Japanese Community

Cole Thompson - March 23, 2016

Seaman Drake arch 2016

Endangered Inwood: Historic Sites and Buildings

Cole Thompson - March 15, 2016

Independent Motion Picture Company, Dyckman Street, circa 1910.

Hollywood on the Hudson: Early Uptown Westerns

Cole Thompson - March 7, 2016

Bromley & Co. shows both Cold Spring Road and Indian Road.

The Former Cold Spring Road: Now Indian Road

Cole Thompson - February 3, 2016

Old sign for Inwood Nutrition Center revealed, 4940 Broadway, January 5, 2016.

Beneath the Signage: Layers of Inwood History

Cole Thompson - January 8, 2016

New York Press, November 3, 1912.

The Good Ship Tortoise: A Harlem River Houseboat Tale

Cole Thompson - January 7, 2016

The 1948 shooting of Inwood resident Thomas Collentine launched the investigation that served as the basis for the film On the Waterfront.

Inwood on the Waterfront: The Shooting of Thomas Collentine

Cole Thompson - December 17, 2015

West 211th Street lampost repurposed as a street sign in 1925 photo. (NYHS)

Inwood by Gaslight: A Relic of a Bygone Era

Cole Thompson - December 14, 2015

1917 map by Reginald Bolton with location of slave cemetery marked. (Source: American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

Inwood’s Forgotten Slave Cemetery

Cole Thompson - November 17, 2015

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