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	Inwood, Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inwood is the northernmost neighborhood on Manhattan Island in the New York City borough of Manhattan and New York State's County of New York.
		Inwood was a rural section of Manhattan until the expansion of the IRT reached Inwood in 1906.
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inwood,_Manhattan (923 words)

	Inwood Hill Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inwood Hill Park is a city-owned and maintained public park in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
		Inwood Park's densely-folded glacially-scoured topography contains the largest remaining forest land on Manhattan Island and is the only natural (non-landscaped) park on the island.
		The Inwood Hill Nature Center at the north end of the park is both a location for educational programs and the local headquarters of the Urban Park Rangers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inwood_Hill_Park (539 words)

	knot.magazine : print
		It was in Inwood Hill Park that I witnessed a large hawk catch and eat a mouse not more than 20 feet away from me and later fly off with a large fl squirrel as its prey.
		Inwood Hill Park is no longer our beautiful secret; it is our city's shame, the shelter of cowardly perverts, a green canopy of murder, tragedy, and filth.
		Inwood Hill Park is now famous for a horrible murder, and deserves to be until the sick bastard who killed Sarah Fox is captured and punished.
	www.knotmag.com /?print=1328 (1133 words)

	Inwood Hill Park
		To the south is Fort Tryon Park, home of the Cloisters Museum and the Met's medieval collection, to the north and east is the Harlem River, and to the west is Inwood Hill Park and the Hudson.
		The heart of the park is the area known as the Clove, a densely forested valley surrounded by high, rocky ridges.
		Park visitors could see them flying high above ground on the streets surrounding the park, or around the inlet, or on the telescope trained on them from the Inwood Hill Nature Center, or even on a webcam at www.nyc.gov/parks (the camera has been disabled until the spring).
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /october_2002/inwood_hill.html (1633 words)

	Ancient Forest Survey
		Although the Park is amidst one of the busiest places in America, easily accessible by the bustling public of New York City, Inwood Hill Park remains a quiet sanctuary of inspiration and reverence for nature.
		Inwood Hill Park lost all of its majestic Eastern Hemlock trees in the last decade due to the hemlock wooly adelgid, a parasitic insect recently arrived from Japan.
		Inwood Hill Park is home to many ancient trees, some which are not native, but nonetheless are some of the oldest specimens of their species in North America.
	www.championtrees.org /oldgrowth/surveys/InwoodHill.htm (1116 words)

	History of WaHI: Inwood Hill Park - Washington Heights & Inwood Online
		Within the 196-acre park is the last remaining primeval forest in Manhattan, not to mention the fact of its waterfront, archaeological relics, recreational fields, ornithological study areas, and jogging and pedestrian paths.
		On the Payson Street side of the park are faint remains of huts and oven pits used by the Royalist forces during the occupation of the area.
		The park was home to country retreats for some of the wealthier families of the community and the rest of New York’s social elite in the 19th century.
	www.washington-heights.us /history/archives/inwood_hill_park_96.html (2500 words)

	Percent for Art - Department of Cultural Affairs
		Inwood Hill Park contains the last tract of original woodland in Manhattan and a vibrant, thriving community of avian creatures, mammals, and reptiles.
		Brown chose to represent creatures and surrounding scenes from these parks to stimulate an awareness and appreciation of Inwood's natural region in the students, teachers, and parents that compose the P.S. 178 community.
		In the rectangular framework, vignettes of Inwood Hill Park, Fort Tyron Park, and the Hudson River are juxtaposed with illustrations of the native creatures.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dcla/html/panyc/brown.shtml (353 words)

	Inwood Hill Park - New York, NY, 10034 - Citysearch
		The oak, maple and hickory trees in this 196-acre park at the northern tip of Manhattan are the only remaining proof that this city was once covered by a forest.
		The park, whose environs once housed the Weekquaeskeek Indian tribe, is the only surviving patch of natural plant life in Manhattan; it has one of the borough's highest elevations as well.
		No roller-blading here--just families hiking the calf-building hills and bird-watching trails; there are also views of the Cloisters, Harlem River and the Henry Hudson Bridge and plain old peace and quiet.
	www.citysearch.com /profile/11433247 (200 words)

	L.A. Ritz: Haunting Inwood Hill Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Inwood Hill Park is one of the often overlooked gems of Manhattan, along with various other resources and attributes of the far upper reaches of the island.
		Unlike the highly designed naturalistic picturesque landscape architecture of Central and Prospect Parks, large swaths of Inwood Hill are comprised of rugged woods with 10,000-year-old glacial rock formations.
		Moreover, the number of Inwood Hill Park users is a fraction of that of the City's more prominent public park.
	www.laritz.info /archives/000015.html (198 words)

	About the Henry Hudson Parkway :: Recreation :: Ribbon of Parks
		Inwood Hill Park spreads from the cliffs of the Manhattan Ridge to the Hudson and Harlem Rivers below.
		Fort Washington Park is a 146-acre shoreline park that includes ball fields, tennis courts, and the Little Red Lighthouse, made famous by the classic children's book.
		George Washington Bridge Park is a tiny park created and maintained by volunteers on land owned by the Port Authority.
	www.henryhudsonparkway.org /hhp/recreation1.htm (535 words)

	NYC Regional Geology
		Outcrop of Ordovician Inwood Marble in Isham Park.
		Inwood Hill Park consists of a number of playing fields on its eastern side, with a forested, rocky upland on its western margin.
		The park is bordered by the Husdon River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, by Seaman Avenue and Payson Street to the east, and by Dyckman Street to the south.
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /nyc/parks/loc3.htm (405 words)

	History of WaHI: Inwood Hill Park - Washington Heights & Inwood Online
		Inwood Hill Park contains the last natural forest and salt marsh in Manhattan.
		Artifacts and the remains of old campfires were found in Inwood’s rock shelters, suggesting their use for shelter and temporary living quarters.
		When the Department of Parks bought land for the park in 1916, the salt marsh was saved and landscaped; a portion of the marsh was later landfilled.
	www.washington-heights.us /history/archives/000445.html (783 words)

	Community Profile: Inwood (January 1995)
		Nestled between the Harlem and Hudson Rivers just north of Fort Tryon Park and its Cloisters medieval museum and edged to the east with the craggy bluffs of Inwood Hill Park, Inwood has long attracted those seeking lower-priced housing and a slice of nature in Manhattan.
		Now Inwood is changing again as a growing number of actors, musicians and artists have over the past five years sought refuge in Inwood from pricey downtown rents.
		All of Inwood's schools -- P.S. 98, 5 and 152 and I.S. 52 -- are overcrowded.
	www.naborsapts.org /documents/inwood.html (1508 words)

	Community Profile: Inwood (December 2002)
		Frederick Law Olmsted coaxed other city parks into artistic wilderness, but Inwood Hill is the real thing, with glacial potholes etched out in the last Ice Age and rock shelters where the Lenape cooked their oysters and clams.
		Hiking trails lace the park, which includes a bald eagle nursery, an urban ecology center, the city's only salt marsh and a viewing spot for the Amtrak swing bridge across the confluence of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.
		On the city side of the park are tennis courts, baseball fields, a soccer field and another 27 acres of greenbelt that is home to Columbia University's Baker Field, track and boathouse.
	www.naborsapts.org /documents/inwood2.html (2038 words)

	Inwood Hill Park
		Inwood Hill Park is 196 acres of primordial forest; that is the backyard of the best neighborhood on Manhattan Island which, of course, is Inwood.
		Inwood Hill Park is filled with tulip trees, which are native to Manhattan Island.
		This is a picture of the spirit tree in Inwood Hill Park, which is home to Father Forest.
	www.rburns.com /TBG/Inwood/park.htm (1194 words)

	Crime & Justice > Unsolved Murder of Sarah Fox (20) - NYC
		The park is a seven- to eight-minute jog from the apartment on Isham Street near Broadway that Fox shared with roommate Patrick Dall'Occhio and her unidentified boyfriend.
		Fox was spending time running in nearby Inwood Hill Park and reading while sipping tea in local diners, said her mother, who added that her daughter planned to return to the school in the fall.
		Sarah was spending time running in nearby Inwood Hill Park and reading while sipping tea in local diners, said her mother, who added that her daughter planned to return to the school in the fall.
	www.crimeandjustice.us /forums/lofiversion/index.php?t591.html (17069 words)

	Image & Photo Gallery :: Inwood & NYC (2003-2004)
		Inwood Hill Park: roomate Ben Ransford chilling on the stairs behind the tennis courts.
		Inwood Hill Park: this used to be some sort of viewing pavillion.
		Inwood Hill Park: a view of the Cloisters museum through the trees.
	china.notspecial.org /gallery/album02 (212 words)

	Inwood - NYWiki
		Inwood is the neighborhood at the northern tip of the island of Manhattan.
		Inwood Hill Park lies along the western edge of the neighborhood on the Hudson River.
		North of the park is a salt marsh like the ones that used to surround the island, home to ducks, Canada geese, and the occasional pair of swans.
	www.nywiki.com /index.php/Inwood (346 words)

	AAA Observing -- Riverside Park
		The AAA will be holding a series of observing sessions at Inwood Hill Park at the northern tip of Manhattan with the cooperation of the New York City Parks Department and the Inwood Hill Park Rangers.
		Walk north and west to West 218th Street and Indian Road, the entrance to the park (star on the map).
		Exit at the Marble Hill station (M on the map).
	www.aaa.org /aaainwoodpark.htm (232 words)

	Dyckman
		The tunnel emerges into the side of a hill, and so the subway tunnel can be seen from the end of the platform.
		Large as Manhattan parks go, Inwood Hill Park comprises 196 acres between Dyckman Street on the south, the Hudson River on the west, and Payson and Seaman Avenues on the east.
		In the park you can also find tall, straight tulip trees, also used by the native Americans to make boats, and striated rocks that illustrate the passing of the great glaciers during the last Ice Age.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /forgotten7/inwood.html (1032 words)

	Manhattan: 200th-220th Streets
		City Parks Department employees anticipate that by the end of July all four eagles will be able to fly.
		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.
		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.
	www.columbia.edu /~nad7/neighborhood/200-220.html (922 words)

	USATODAY.com - Woman found strangled in Manhattan park identified as missing Juilliard acting student (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		NEW YORK (AP) — A woman found strangled in an upper Manhattan park was identified through dental records Wednesday as a missing Juilliard drama student, the medical examiner's office said.
		Fox, who lived less than a mile from the spot in Inwood Hill Park where her body was found, was last seen May 19 as she left home to jog or work out at a gym.
		A piece of her clothing was found in the parking lot, a possible indication that she was abducted, he said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-05-26-ny-missing-student_x.htm (425 words)

	Manhattan Waterfront Greenway - New York City Department of City Planning
		Currently pedestrians are allowed to use the path in the park, but cyclists are not.
		It is unlikely that the waterfront in the north of the park along the Harlem River will ever have a bicycle path because of its designation as a wilderness area.
		In addition to these two impediments, the bluffs in Inwood Hill Park effectively prevent waterfront access.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dcp/html/mwg/maps_2_2_11.shtml (130 words)

	Geology 01 Field Guide Addenda - Merguerian 2005
		Inwood Marble and Inwood-Manhattan contact, Isham and Inwood Hill Parks, Inwood section of Manhattan.
		Figure 3 – Northward view of highly jointed east-dipping Inwood Marble exposed in Isham Park in Manhattan. Although well-foliated, the obvious compositional layering preserves ancient bedding in the rock mass.
		Figure 4 – View of differentially weathered Inwood Marble exposed in Isham Park in northern Manhattan. Note the small knots of tremolite (a member of the amphibole family) weathering in high relief.
	www.dukelabs.com /Isham_Inwood_Parks/Isham_Inwood_Park.htm (533 words)

	Inwood Hill Park \| New York Hikes
		Inwood Hill Park is without a doubt the most natural and unspoiled in the entire New York City system.
		About 140 of the 196 acres of the park comprise the last tract of natural woodland in Manhattan.
		For all its beauty and interest, Inwood Hill Park’s location on the northernmost tip of Manhattan Island makes it a bit out of the way.
	www.trails.com /tcatalog_trail.asp?TrailID=XAC016-004 (255 words)

	Wild Birds in New York City: Eagles, Turkeys and More
		The tulip tree forest within Inwood Hill Park is not only a great spot to avoid the heat, but is rarely visited even on weekends when the rest of the park is jam-packed.
		Cunningham Park's Southern Forest (Francis Lewis Blvd./Union Turnpike) is cool, quiet, and dotted with tiny kettle ponds that attract all sorts of wildlife.
		Bring binoculars and patience to Van Cortlandt Park (the swamp section) to spy on the park's mascot species--the wood duck, which is perhaps the most colorful and attractive bird in North America.
	www.newyorktails.com /birdmeet.htm (889 words)

	The Inwood Journal: Parks Abound
		The Inwood Journal comes to you from the northern tip of Manhattan Island, an area rich in parkland.
		And just south of the Inwood Journal's office and west of Broadway is another small park, bristling with outcroppings of schist, called
		Actually, there's one more park in the area, but it's not public.
	www.servenet.com /inwood/parks.htm (269 words)

	Ski Manhattan south to north 2 -- Ken Roberts
		undernearth the highway near Tubby Hook and the south entrance of Inwood Hill Park
		curving east through Inwood Hill Park, toward the cove hidden in the north end of Manhattan island
		I skied for another block east from Inwood Park, along 218th Street,
	www.roberts-1.com /t/xc034/ma/b (259 words)

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