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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

Fort George Subway Tunnel 1904

The 1903 Fort George Subway Tunnel Disaster

admin - February 25, 2015

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On Thin Ice: A 1932 Drowning on the Spuyen Duyvil

admin - February 20, 2015

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Inwood’s Dyckman Street Ferry

admin - February 16, 2015

German politician Max Brauer spent World War II exiled in Inwood.

Exile in Inwood: The Max Brauer Story

admin - February 10, 2015

Seaman-Mansion

Park Terrace Gardens Rises from the Ruins of the Old Seaman...

admin - February 8, 2015

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A Buried City: The Blizzard of 1888

admin - January 26, 2015

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Inwood Apartment Rentals in 1936

admin - January 19, 2015

91 Payson Avenue: An Art Deco Masterpiece

admin - January 13, 2015

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Inwood’s 215th Street Incinerator Smokestacks

admin - January 6, 2015

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Happy Holidays Inwood

admin - December 23, 2014

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