Talk:Inwood, Manhattan
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Take a walk through Inwood Hill Park at http://www.rburns.com/TBG/Inwood/park.htm and see how really beautiful it is.
The writings that accompany the photos will mean more of course if you grew up in Inwood. If you didn't you'll want to visit. Enjoy your walk.
This description would place The Cloisters in Inwood. The Fort of Fort Tryon Park is Fort Washington, renamed by the British. North of The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, the ground drops precipitously to the narrow valley that led once to the ferry landing at Dyckmans street. Inwood Park rises to the north, with the neighborhood of Inwood on the slop to its east. Even the geology divides the two neighborhoods. --Wetman 5 July 2005 23:24 (UTC)
[edit] Bennett Avenue
"It extends southward to approximately Fort Tryon Park and Bennett Avenue." Bennett Ave runs North-South, so saying it's the southern boundary really doesn't make much sense. The same is true for Fort Tryon Park -- look at the map. I'm not sure what a better southern boundary would be. 70.18.192.23 (talk) 04:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Southern Border
I have added pictures that I have donated to the public domain and tried to clean up some of the grammar and structure of the article. I have also reset the southern border of Inwood to Dyckman Street/200th St. This is commonly accepted and cited in multiple sources (such as the official city tourist board map at NYC Visit - http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=429). There is no documented basis for trying to include areas south of Dyckman as part of Inwood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgthom (talk • contribs) 04:41, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] White Flight
I have many times now removed the sentences: This phenomenon of white residents leaving an inner-city neighborhood has many plausible causes and it often referred to as white flight. The instance of this phenomenon in Inwood reached its peak by the late 1980s with the crack epidemic afflicting northern Manhattan. This is exaggeration and stereotyping and not necessarily true in the case of Inwood. There was no mortgage redlining, for example, and the movement of the former Irish population was as much a result of simple roadway, suburban and employment changes as much as any desire to flee a neighborhood that was becoming home to Dominican immigrants. There were many reasons as to why these changes happened but to write them off as "white flight" and due to crack is simply not an objective, verifiable statement. If a reference exists showing otherwise, please display it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgthom (talk • contribs) —Preceding comment was added at 04:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I have again removed references to "white flight". It is not necessary to discuss it here because the context does not fit the definition. I will request an IP lock if race-based vandalism continues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgthom (talk • contribs) 13:20, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
