Inwood

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Inwood forms the northern tip of Manhattan, north of Washington Heights, between Inwood Hill Park and the Harlem River.

  • 0.52 square miles
  • 36,299 residents, 2020 Census
  • 89 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 6 bus routes

The Dyckman family's farm of 250 to 280 acres lay along today's Broadway until its land was sold at four auctions between 1868 and 1871, and their Dutch Colonial farmhouse, built around 1785 on Broadway at 204th Street, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island and has been a museum since 1916. Apartment buildings went up east of Broadway after the IRT subway arrived in 1906, and Columbia University has kept its 23-acre athletic complex here since the 1920s.

Sources: Inwood, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Dyckman House (Wikipedia); The Dyckman Family (Dyckman Farmhouse Museum); The Museum (Dyckman Farmhouse Museum).

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Inwood borders three areas, and 10th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 20 of 89.

Street map of Inwood, Manhattan, outlined among Inwood Hill Park, Highbridge Park and Washington Heights (North), with its four subway stations and Isham Park.Inwood Hill ParkHighbridge ParkWashington Heights (North)
  • Inwood
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 215 St lines 1
  • Inwood-207 St lines A accessible
  • Dyckman St lines A
  • 207 St lines 1

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of Inwood.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 5 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Bx7
  • Bx12
  • Bx12-SBS
  • Bx20
  • M100

Express bus route

  • BxM1

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,645 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.5 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 4 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 21 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
13
Accessible pedestrian signals
11
Turn calming
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than bus-lane or red-light tickets.

  • 71 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 13,170 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 580 bus-lane camera tickets at one corner
Most red-light tickets
10th Avenue & West 207th Street, 71
Most speed tickets
Broadway & 9th Avenue, 9,519
Most bus-lane tickets
West 207th Street & Vermilyea Avenue, 580

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 36,299 residents in Inwood, about 69,800 per square mile.

  • 15,712 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,028 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 367 residential lots hold buildings from 1926 or earlier, and 83% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Dyckman development lies wholly or partly within Inwood.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
18.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Isham Park (9.7 acres), Sherman Creek (7.1 acres) and Monsignor Kett Playground (1 acre)
Designated landmark
The Dyckman House
Historic district
Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Historic District, wholly or partly within Inwood

Streets and trees

Trees
2,173 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Japanese zelkova and maidenhair tree
Street with the most corners
10th Avenue, with 20 of the area's 89
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at Nagle Avenue & Academy Street to 95 feet at West 215th Street & Park Terrace East
Honorary street names
24 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 20 schools and one library in Inwood.

Public schools
10
Charter and private schools
10
Library
Inwood Library–joseph and Sheila Rosenblatt Building

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 13 bike-share stations stand in Inwood.

  • 13 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 451 major felonies at places in Inwood.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Inwood

  • 452 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,872 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Inwood, the NYPD recorded another 111 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 15.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Inwood.

Police precinct
34th
Major felonies recorded at places in Inwood, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 229 major felonies at places in Inwood, against 218 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.