Marble Inwood Ny

Forgotten new york s inwood and marble hill tour was so successful this past june 2019 i thought i d recap it here inwood was the last part of manhattan to develop along the lines of neighborhoods to the south.

Marble inwood ny.

State of new york it is bounded by the hudson river to the west spuyten duyvil creek and marble hill to the north the harlem river to the east and washington heights to the south. During the devonian a suite of small granite bodies intruded the new york city region. Established in 1991 new york marble ceramic is new york s premier supplier of both domestic and imported stone ceramics porcelain glass and mosaic from around the world. The name of marble hill was conceived by darius c.

Crosby in 1891 from the local deposits of dolomite marble which is a relatively soft rock that overlay the inwood and marble hill communities. During the revolutionary war colonials erected fort cox or fort cocks overlooking the hudson river. It is visible above ground forming a ridge from dyckman street on the upper west side northward to marble hill. Inwood is a neighborhood in the new york city borough of manhattan at the northern tip of manhattan island in the u s.

Marble s softness is responsible for much of the geography of new york city. Inwood is part of manhattan community district 12 and its primary zip code is 10034. Tuckahoe marble also known as inwood and westchester marble is a type of marble found in southern new york state and western connecticut part of the inwood formation of the manhattan prong it dates from the late cambrian to the early ordovician ages 484 ma ago it was first quarried on a large scale commercially in the village of tuckahoe new york. Inwood marble much softer than schist and gneiss is easily eroded particularly by acid rain.

101 west end avenue inwood ny 11096. Marble granite limestone onyx and many more. 1 516 371 4307 fax 1 516 371 0208. Veins of marble once connected manhattan to the mainland.

The marble was quarried for the federal buildings in lower manhattan when new york was the capital of the united states in the 1780s. The tremolite in the inwood marble formed during this retograde amphibolite facies metamorphic event. Over time the marble washed away creating pathways for the hudson harlem and east rivers around the newly. These granites reintroduced water to the dry diopsidic marbles and caused new hydrous minerals to form.