‘Inwood’ replaced the old name Tubby Hook in 1864.
Before 1864 much of Manhattan north of Dyckman Street was called Tubby Hook, perhaps after the tub-like outline of an inlet, or from the Dutch ’t Ubregt Hoek, after a ferryman. The change was likely made at the railroads’ behest, but how the name Inwood was chosen ‘has been lost to the ages’, says the local history site My Inwood. The station was first called Washington Heights–207th Street.