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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

admin - October 30, 2019

Inwood Featured in 1968 Documentary: “Goodbye to Glocamorra”

Beekeeper Mike Fesslian in Inwood Hill Park, 1932, photo by Percy Loomis Sperr

The Beekeeper of Inwood Hill

Ulysses Grant family in 1870. Jesse Root Grant wearing white coat in center.

The General’s Son: A Scandal on Inwood Hill

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

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El Gallito: 1935 Sixto Escobar Fight in the Dyckman Oval

admin - April 28, 2015

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The Greening of Inwood: The Children’s Garden of P.S. 52

admin - April 22, 2015

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57 Park Terrace West: The Houdini Connection

admin - April 8, 2015

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The Sea Captain of Dyckman Street: William Ladd Flitner

admin - March 23, 2015

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1935 Police Beat: Babe Ruth Hits Pedestrian on Seaman Avenue

admin - March 10, 2015

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Stephen "Sonny" Kole: Six-Year-Old Hudson River Swimmer

admin - March 2, 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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