Inwood Hill Nature Center
650 West 218th Street | also 269 Dyckman Street | Inwood Hill Park | built 1940
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1995
The Inwood Hill Nature Center opens near the park's 218th Street entrance
The nature center was dedicated and opened on September 15, 1995, at 218th Street and Indian Road. It sits on a peninsula that was attached to the Bronx until the Harlem River Ship Canal was cut through, and it teaches visitors about the park's natural and cultural history. The park's Urban Park Rangers are based here.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2002
A five-year project tries to bring bald eagles back to Manhattan
Beginning in summer 2002, a five-year project puts hacking boxes in Inwood Hill Park and rears eaglets brought from the Midwest, hoping to restore the bald eagle to Manhattan. Three of the four eaglets fledge that first summer, and three or four fledge in each year of the program. The nesting structure is removed in 2009. The Nature Center is the focal point for watching the park's eagles.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2024
The nature center reopens twelve years after Hurricane Sandy flooded it
Hurricane Sandy's floodwaters swamped the Art Deco building, originally designed as a boathouse, in October 2012, and it stayed closed for twelve years through long renovation delays. It had a soft reopening on June 1, 2024, with restored restrooms and a terrace over the salt marsh, where a marker shows the flood's five-foot high-water line.
Source: birdsofinwood.com
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