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Inwood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, at the northern tip of Manhattan Island, in the U.S. state of New York.It is bounded by the Hudson River to the west, Spuyten Duyvil Creek and Marble Hill to the north, the Harlem River to the east, and Washington Heights to the south.
Even though the area which is now Inwood Hill Park was the site of one of the last farms in Manhattan – which lasted to at least c. 1890 [3] – by the 19th century, it was largely the location of country retreats for some of the wealthier families of the community and the rest of New York's social elite. [4]
Dyckman Street (/ d aɪ k m ɪ n / DIKE-man), occasionally called West 200th Street, is a street in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is commonly considered to be a crosstown street because it runs from the Hudson River to the Harlem River and intersects Broadway. However, in its true geographical orientation, Dyckman ...
[4] [5] On December 9, 1924, the New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) gave preliminary approval for the construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line. [6] This line consisted of a corridor connecting Inwood, Manhattan, to Downtown Brooklyn, running largely under Eighth Avenue but also paralleling Greenwich Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Lower ...
The Inwood–207th Street station (formerly Washington Heights–207th Street) is the northern terminal station of the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 207th Street and Broadway in the Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood , near Inwood Hill Park , it is served by the A train at all times.
Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.The 67-acre (27 ha) park is situated on a ridge in Upper Manhattan, close to the Hudson River to the west.
The 207th Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of 207th Street and 10th Avenue in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times.
Inwood was first settled in 1600s. [2] Like many other nearby communities, the area was known as Near Rockaway. [2] A meeting was held by the Town of Hempstead on January 16, 1663, and during that meeting, the name of what is now Inwood was changed to North West Point (also spelled as Northwest Point), named after its geographic position in relation to the more central part of Far Rockaway ...