Named after West 207th Street, one of Inwood’s main shopping streets.
West 207th Street is one of Inwood’s main commercial streets, and the University Heights Bridge carries it over the Harlem River to Fordham Road in the Bronx. The name Inwood itself was bestowed in November 1864; according to the local history site My Inwood, the railroads renamed the district, and how the name was chosen ‘has been lost to the ages’.