Inwood

Inwood is the district more in north of the island of Manhattan to New York. It is not a question however of the most septentrional zone of the Borough of Manhattan, which also includes a small portion of the continent, known under the name of Marble Hill.

Inwood, located at the north of Washington Heights, is delimited by the river of Harlem in north and the east, Fairview Avenue in the south and the Hudson in the west. Its principal artery is Broadway, and the center trading is around Dyckman Street. Inwood constitutes a excentré residential district, nearer to the county of Westchester than of the Midtown. During most of the 20th century, its inhabitants were mainly of Irish origin , but one finds now especially Dominicains. Inwood Hill Park, at the edge of Hudson, is a city park which comprises caves used by the Lenape Indians before the arrival of Europeans, as well as the last salt-water marshes of Manhattan, where one can observe migratory birds. The legendary purchase of New York to Lenape probably occurred in what now became the district of Inwood.

External bonds

Washington Heights and Inwood Online

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