Visit the Real NYC Part 2 - Marble Hill and Inwood
Whether you live in NYC or are coming to visit, the northern tip of Manhattan is a fascinating place to visit for history, geology and food. Marble Hill Today the neighborhood of Marble sits in the boro of The Bronx, just across the Broadway Bridge from Manhattan (see map) , but that wasn't always true. www.forgotton-ny.com For most of its history Marble Hill was a physical part of the island of Manhattan. It was separated from the Bronx by a river called the Spuytan Duyvil by the Dutch settlers. Marble Hill was the home to quarries that provided much of the marble for the early buildings in NYC. Then the Erie Canal opened and the Hudson river became the major route for food and freight to and from the Great Lakes. Engineers looked for a way to shorten that route and decided to carve up the northern tip of Manhattan. Using the quarries that were already there they opened up larger shipping channel to the Harlem River and thus Marble Hill became physically attached ...