38-48 SICKLES STREE

38-48 Sickles, Inwood, , Manhattan, NY 10040

Much like other areas of northern Manhattan, Inwood was spread out and bucolic until mass transit arrived in the early 20th century. Some remnants remain, including the Seaman-Drake Arch. The marble structure formerly served as the entrance to a 19th-century hillside mansion and today sits between local businesses as the only free-standing arch in Manhattan outside Washington Square Park. There’s also the Dyckman House, a Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse, the oldest remaining structure of its kind in the borough. Art Deco apartments constructed around the 1930s serve as a bit of a modern-day signature for the area, along with a historic district consisting of two-story Tudor and Colonial Revival houses built between 1920 and 1925. The northern terminus of the island of Manhattan — Marble Hill is the northernmost neighborhood — Inwood puts a fittingly distinctive cap on the borough’s enduring majesty.