Photo Essay: Meet Inwood, a Neighborhood on the Verge of a Major Rezoning

Most New Yorkers don’t live in one of the neighborhoods that has undergone or been slated for a rezoning by the de Blasio administration. Many New Yorkers have never visited places like Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, Bay Street in Staten Island or East New York in Brooklyn. That creates something of a disconnect: The rezonings are ostensibly designed in large part to address a citywide need—the thirst for more housing—but will primarily affect a few very local communities.

For most of us, the proposed rezonings are lines on a map. For residents of places like Inwood, where a possible rezoning has just begun public review, the looming changes have real-world impact, be it good or bad.

To give non-Inwoodites a sense of what that area looks like now, City Limits dispatched photographer Adi Talwar to document the sections of the neighborhood as identified by the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) in the map immediately below. As we explain on page 2 of this week’s Inwood newsletter, each area would receive unique treatment under the administration’s rezoning proposal.

(For a slightly different look at another neighborhood facing a possible rezoning check our our two video walking tours of Jerome Avenue, here and here.)

The EDC Map
Click on a section name to see photos:
Tip of Manhattan | Upland Wedge | Upland Core | Commercial “U” | Sherman Creek

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Tip of Manhattan

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Upland Wedge

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Upland Core

 

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Commercial “U”

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Sherman Creek