Talk:Inwood Hill Park

"Father Forest"?
Can anyone site or elaborate on this reference to "Father Forest"? An internet search turns up nothing but copies of this article. Can this be substantiated at all? Gnosis1185 22:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I took it out, because not only does it lack substantiation, but I've lived across the street from the park for 20 years, and talked to a bunch of people, and never seen or heard the term except in this article. Obviously, if someone can provide substantiation that this is real and of interest, we can put it back. Vicki Rosenzweig (talk) 02:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Anyone interested in expanding this article will want to see this. --Wetman (talk) 12:32, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I lived one block from the park 1943-1966 and never heard of "Father Forest". Last photo in article, of autumn, shows new park benches and inlet at high tide.2603:7000:6A00:32DA:7148:ECAC:ABDC:667A (talk) 12:33, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Ownership Status
I was looking at the NYC Department of Finance tax maps and online records, and it appears that the ownership of most of the land which makes up this park was transferred to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY in 2014. See Deed: I modified the page to indicated that the park is still city operated, but I am wondering if we need to add more details about the ownership, and why the city transferred the park. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.90.0.67 (talk) 21:32, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

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In popular culture
Unsourced section, moved from the main article page. epicgenius (talk) 19:44, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Part of Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries takes place in the park.
 * A cave in Inwood Park is where Pete Hamill's protagonist in the 2003 novel Forever receives the gift of immortality as long as he never leaves Manhattan. The name "Inwood" is repeatedly invoked in the novel as a site of destiny.
 * Authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child used Inwood Hill Park as a locale for their 2009 bestseller Cemetery Dance. The book also goes into some of the history of the park, but takes some artistic license in adding a small dark enclave within the area as a plot device. Previously, mystery writer S. S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) set the plot of his novel The Dragon Murder Case (1934) in a fictional estate located in the middle of Inwood Hill Park.
 * Showdown between Iron Fist and Steel Serpent in Marvel Team-Up #63 takes place in Inwood Park.

"Shorakapok" name
This source suggests "Shorakapok" was a neologism by Thomas H. Edsall, though that seems unlikely given Native American participation in the Shorakapok Reserve naming.--Pharos (talk) 05:38, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * On further research, the idea of "Shorakapok" not being genuine appears to be wholly wrong, and the author must have been confused in claiming this.--Pharos (talk) 07:05, 4 July 2021 (UTC)


 * One middle possibility might be that "Shorakapok" properly refers to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and that the name was only applied to the village after the archaological inverstigations uncovered it.--Pharos (talk) 01:52, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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