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bullet   Bald eagles in Inwood Hill Park
       Dyckman St. to Spuyten Duyvil
       Photo: The American Eagle Foundation
 
Visit the live camera trained on the four baby bald eagles at the Nature Center in Inwood Hill Park. The eagles were brought to their treehouse cage here in mid-June, 2002, and are in the process of learning to fly. City Parks Department employees anticipate that by the end of July all four eagles will be able to fly.
More info at CBS: Bald Eaglets Update.
 

bullet   Inwood Hill Park
       Dyckman St. to Spuyten Duyvil
       Photo:  Shira Vickar Inwood Hill Park
Legend has it that under a tulip tree in this 196-acre park Peter Minuit, Director General of New Netherland, bought Manhattan from the Indians in 1626 for the Dutch West India Company. He renamed the area New Amsterdam. (More about this tulip tree in the following item.)
The area's only natural forest is to be found on these hills, surrounding caves once inhabited by the Indians. Most of the primeval forest was removed during the War for Independence, with cutting continuing into the early 20th century before Inwood Hill was designated parkland. Manhattan's last remaining salt marsh is at the park's northern border.
Fort Cock-Hill was once located here, on top of the western ridge of Inwood Hill Park, overlooking the Hudson River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, approximately where the Henry Hudson toll booth now stands. The Continental Army lost Fort Cock-Hill when Fort Washington fell to the British in November 1776. Around December 2001 the Parks Department installed an historic sign, just east of the Nature Center, describing the fort, using text supplied by James R. Taylor. (On the Parks Department site go to the "Historic Signs" page, select Manhattan, and scroll down to Fort Cockhill. Similarly, there are five entries for Inwood Park.)
More info about Inwood Hill at Forgotten NY and on Vicki Rosenzweig's page.
 

bullet   Tulip Tree
       Inwood Hill Park
       © Photo New-York Historical Society Tulip Tree
 
You will find information about this legendary tulip tree, furnished by longtime neighborhood expert James R. Taylor, by following the tulip tree link. There are also links to a painting and a couple of images. Sadly, the tree was felled by a storm in the 1930's. (This PDF file is rather large and may take some minutes to load.)
 

bullet   Washington Heights & Inwood Kids

Washington Heights & Inwood Kids maintains an extensive resource web site with the aim to "help families fully utilize the resources in their own community, thereby helping local businesses and community organizations. Most of the entertainment and recreational resources listed on this site come from NYC Parks Dept, NYPublic Library, and local Non-profit groups."

bullet   The Dyckman Street Marina
       Dyckman St. at the Hudson River
       © Photo Nell Dillon-Ermers Dyckman Street Marina

The city in the early 1990's developed the former C.K.G. Billings' yacht landing into a marina.  On the Hudson River at the foot of Dyckman Street, it includes a picnic area and a food stand offering fish and other snacks.  (The marina is just visible in the middle-right of the picture -- much easier to see if you click to enlarge it.  The photo looks north.)
 

bullet   Sherman Creek
       Dyckman St. at the Harlem River
       © The NYRP Swindler Cove Boathouse

The New York Restoration Project is proposing to build a boathouse here at Swindler Cove in Sherman Creek as part of their larger rehabilitation of Northern Manhattan parks. The planned boathouse would have a second-floor observation deck above boat storage and launching facilities.
 

bullet   Holy Trinity Church
       20 Cumming Street
       © Holy Trinity Church

"Holy Trinity Church draws together diverse ages and cultural groups to form a vibrant, growing and caring community in the Anglican tradition."

 

bullet   Pied Piper Children's Theater

"The Pied Piper Children's Theatre of NYC is a non-denominational, non-sectarian outreach program of Holy Trinity Church, located on 20 Cumming Street (one block north of Dyckman between Broadway and Seaman Ave)."

bullet   Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
       4881 Broadway at 204th St.
       Pencil drawing 1875 by Francis H. Scherr © Dyckman F.M. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
 
Manhattan's last remaining farmhouse is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday. Built by William Dyckman in 1784 in the Dutch colonial style, the house was restored and opened as a museum in 1916. It has five period rooms filled with 18th and 19th-century American furniture and a porch overlooking a landscaped half-acre park. For additional information, please visit the museum's web site and the The Historic House Trust of New York City.
 

bullet   Isham Park
       Isham-214 Sts. at Seaman Ave.
       © Photo by Leslie Day narcissus
According to the NYC Parks Deparment: "In 1864 William B. Isham, a wealthy leather merchant, purchased twenty-four acres along the Kingsbridge Road, now known as Broadway, from 211th Street to 214th Street, and northwest to Spuyten Duyvil Creek." The park has benches and a playground. Traces of the Wiechquaesgeck Indian camps were unearthed here. On the Parks Department "Historical Signs" page, see also the reference to Isham Park under "Inwood Marble in Nwe York City Parks - Isham Park."
 

bullet   Baker Field Stadium
       218th St. at Broadway
       © 1997 Trustees of Columbia University Baker Field Stadium
This Columbia University Stadium was built in 1922 with the financial help of George Fisher Baker (1840–1931), the American financier and philanthropist who was one of the founders and presidents of the First National Bank of New York.  For information on Baker Field events, please call 212-942-0431 or visit the Columbia University Athletics site.

bullet   The Allen Pavilion
       5145 Broadway at 220 St.

In 1988 the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill built this 3-story pavilion on an unused section of Columbia University's Baker Field.  (It shows in the middle of the left side of the photograph above.) The pavilion is a branch of the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital (168th Street at Fort Washington Ave.).

bullet   Marble Hill
       Harlem River to 230th St. along Broadway
       Map © Forgotten NY
Before the Harlem River Ship Canal was dug in 1895 to bypass the river's bend at Spuyten Duyvil Creek and speed up shipping, Marble Hill was physically connected to Manhattan.  It was an island until 1923 when the creek was filled, connecting Marble Hill to the Bronx.  However, it continues to be administered mostly as part of Manhattan Borough.
See also Forgotten NY.

bullet   Henry Hudson Bridge
       H. Hudson Pkwy at Harlem River
       © Transportation Alternatives Henry Hudson Bridge
And here, with the Henry Hudson Bridge, we leave Manhattan, crossing into the Bronx as the Harlem River prepares to join the Hudson waters.
Another photograph, from Mohamad Mehdi Alinia, Amirkabir University, Iran.
See also Transportation Alternatives.

More information to come. Until then, happy surfing and au revoir...
   

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