Tour of Inwood, Northern Manhattan

Popularly known as “Upstate Manhattan” because of the many Parks.

You can make a lovely day trip, explore and then come to the cooking class. Street parking is usually available. Subways A and 1 to 207th St and the express bus via FDR for the East side, BXM1. Local Busses M100, BX7, BX12, BX20. Also along the Greenway by biking or walking.

Cloisters Museum (a branch of the Met)

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/the_cloisters

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum – Dutch Colonial, 1784, lovely period gardens and museum. Norman Rockwell did a painting of its kitchen!

http://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/

Inwood Hill Park, 196 acres, caves, river, Nature Center

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/inwoodhillpark

The Heather Gardens, near the Cloisters, a beautiful planting designed by the Olmsted Brothers.

http://www.forttryonparktrust.org/gardens/heather_garden.html

Dyckman Marina (at Dyckman and 200th Street). A vertical garden near Hudson River, near the Canoe Club.

http://inwoodgardeners.wordpress.com/

Riverside Park

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/riversidepark/pressrelease/20918