Inwood, Henshaw Street Between Dyckman Street and Riverside Drive

Mary Sargent © 2006 …………………………….. click to enlarge

This is right across the street from the shot in last night's photo. I remember the first time I lived where zoning was relaxed, and commercial and residential uses existed on the same block. This was in Springfield, Illinois, the state's capital, where I had moved with my husband and children. I was a child of the suburbs, and it seemed exotic to me and charming. I still find it interesting and desirable. I want to be able to go downstairs and get a newspaper or a cup of coffee! Well, dammit, the block I live on now, in Inwood, is strictly residential. I just can't afford to live in a mixed environment, I guess.

Of course, I'm getting a bit far afield here as this block doesn't exactly offer newspapers and coffee. It doesn't have that quality of being in the thick of things, which is part of the appeal to me. But I'm still charmed.

See map.

Inwood, Henshaw Street Between Dyckman Street and Riverside Drive

Mary Sargent © 2006 ……………….…………click to enlarge

Here's the other little street out here on the edge, Ft. Tryon Park up ahead. See map.

I'm guessing this is mother, son and grandson. Up the street, they turn into an alley just beyond the brick building and enter a side door of the next building. I like this group and I want to know more about them. Which of you lives there? How did you happen to move there and for how long have you been there? What's it like living there?