![Dyckman House Restaurant ad, Riverdale Press, June 13, 1974.](https://myinwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dyckman-House-Restaurant-ad-Riverdale-Press-June-13-1974-1024x928.jpg)
The Colonial-era Dyckman House, on West 204th Street and Broadway, is a great place to visit if history is your thing—but if its all-you-can-eat chicken you crave, then you would have loved the other Dyckman House.
![Dyckman House Restaurant chicken night, Riverdale Press, April 9, 1970.](https://myinwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dyckman-House-Restaurant-chicken-night-April-9-1970-786x1024.jpg)
In the early 1970s the Dyckman House Restaurant served outrageous portions of chicken and seafood—often served with a complimentary glass of wine.
![Dyckman House Restaurant Seafood Special, Riverdale Press, January 21, 1971](https://myinwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dyckman-House-Restaurant-Seafood-Special-Riverdale-Press-January-21-1971-709x1024.jpg)
![Dyckman House Restaurant, Riverdale Press. November 23, 1972.](https://myinwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dyckman-House-Restaurant-Riverdale-Press-November-23-1972-881x1024.jpg)
Advertisements in the Riverdale Press invited readers to visit the “lovely” Dyckman House dining room where, “you are a stranger but once.”
![](https://myinwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dyckman-House-Restaurant-May-7-1970-778x1024.jpg)
This long-closed restaurant, from a now Lost Inwood,was located on Dyckman Street and Broadway and was open 24-hours a day.
The owner of the Dyckman House restaurant was robbed and stabbed to death outside his apartment off the lobby of a Park Terrace Gardens building around 1970 or so. I was in the building at the time several floors above at my Aunt and Uncle’s. We heard the screams of his wife