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Inwood is the top of Manhattan island, north of . The Hudson is on one side and the Harlem River on the other. It was farmland into the twentieth century.
The IRT reached it in 1906 and apartment buildings went up on the east side of Broadway. The estates west of Broadway were sold off in the 1930s, and much of what replaced them is Art Deco.
Some of what came before is still standing. The at Broadway and 204th Street was built around 1784 and is the oldest farmhouse in Manhattan. The at 216th Street went up in 1855 out of Inwood marble, the soft white stone quarried here. Pieces of the same stone are in the retaining walls around .
Most of the detached houses left on Manhattan island are here, in between the apartment blocks. Some have front lawns.
The last natural forest and salt marsh on the island are in , at the northwest corner. Old campfires and artifacts were found in its rock shelters.
The 1 train runs on steel above , with stations at 207th and 215th Streets. The shops are along Broadway and , and the restaurants and bars are on west of Broadway.
Broadway at had a film set on it before the business left for California. The Independent Motion Picture Company put up an open air stage there around 1909 and made westerns. The trolley poles were hidden behind teepees and the streetcars kept getting into the shot.
