Inwood Library

The Inwood Branch - Manhattan's northernmost branch - serves a large multi-ethnic community.

The branch has strong Spanish-language collections and a small Russian-language collection, both including a wide range of audiobooks and DVDs. The branch also offers English classes for adults whose native tongue is another language. The children's room on the second floor includes space for programs; events for teenagers and adults take place in the auditorium. In 1902, NYPL began providing services to the Inwood neighborhood in collaboration with the Dyckman Library. Twenty-one years later NYPL expanded its presence in the area when it opened a sub-branch at a private house, to the study hall of the old George Washington High School, and to two other locations. Finally, in 1952, the branch moved into its present location in a three-story building on Broadway, just north of Dyckman Street.

A renovation through the Library's Adopt-a-Branch program was completed in 2001 making