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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#461 The Story of Inwood and Marble Hill

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Inwood and Marble Hill -- aka "upstate Manhattan" -- are far from the center of New York's midtown urban activity but that distance provides both neighborhoods with fascinating and even unusual origin stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:33.7

The Bowery Boys episode 461, the story of Inwood and Marble Hill. Hey, it's the Bowery Boys episode 461. The story of Inwood and Marble Hill.

0:40.1

Hey, it's the Bowery Boys. Hey.

1:00.3

Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young. And this is Kieran Ganon.

1:07.2

And we're starting today's show in a rather unusual fashion because we're starting it in a forest.

1:11.8

Like we are in a forest. Listen to this. We are like, we've got brush on the ground. There's trees, birds singing, and a gentle hum of traffic in the background. We are in Inwood Hill Park.

1:18.9

This is a 196-acre forest, mostly forest. It's the northernmost park in Manhattan, and it contains

1:27.0

the island's last natural forest,

1:29.2

and also its last salt marsh.

1:31.4

So let's really, like, dig into that.

1:34.0

What does that mean, the last forest?

1:37.0

On an island that used to be all, pretty much all forest.

1:40.3

This was the last part of Manhattan to really be developed and urbanized right so this forest

1:47.7

believe it or not just kind of was always here and there's old growth trees in fact the oldest

1:53.3

tree on the island of Manhattan is just inside of this forest its name is Socrates

1:58.6

Wait and you know Socrates because you have actually lived here in today's subject, the

2:05.7

neighborhood of Inwood. Yes, I spent about six or so years living in Inwood. I spent the

2:11.8

pandemic years living here as well. So I know this forest very, very well. I probably know most of the 10 miles of hiking trails.

2:20.4

That's all there was to do for a couple years there.

2:23.5

So, but this is a fitting place for us to begin our show on the history of Inwood,

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