canal to the eastern shore of the park. A boat basin and large playfield will
be constructed and the entire park landscaped.

To the west, between 218th Street, Broadway, and the Harlem River,
lies Columbia University's Baker Field. It has baseball and football
fields, a stadium, a cinder track, and boathouses.

For all Inwood's considerable age, there is a newness to much of the
district. The apartment houses and the spectacular improvements in parks,
bridges, and highways are, for the most part, recent achievements. These
late changes have only helped Inwood to become very nearly what Olm-
sted and Croes envisioned in 1876—a residential neighborhood "for fairly
comfortable people."

Marble Hill

Area: Harlem River Ship Canal on the south to 230th St. on the north; from
Ewen St. east to Exterior St.

Marble Hill, Inwood's little neighbor to the northeast, is tied to
Manhattan Island by the bridge over which Broadway crosses the Har-
lem. The hill was called Papirinemen by the Indians, meaning "a place
parcelled out." Old marble quarries gave it the name most commonly
used, but occasionally it is referred to as Kingsbridge, a name derived
from a bridge, the first across the river, that Frederick Philipse built in
1693. Indignant farmers resented paying toll to Philipse, a wealthy Dutch
Colonial, and erected the free Farmers' Bridge. General Washington's
troops used both crossings in their retreat to White Plains after the battle
on Harlem Heights.

Like Inwood, Marble Hill is a relatively quiet neighborhood. Modest
apartment houses look out across the New York Central tracks and the
Harlem River, but many of the residences along its hilly streets are two-
story frame cottages.