Window Installation in Inwood

Why Inwood Homes Need Premium Windows

Inwood occupies the last mile of Manhattan, a low valley held between two ridges of schist with Inwood Hill Park on one side and Fort Tryon on the other. It is the greenest ground on the island — the park holds Manhattan’s last old-growth forest and its only remaining salt marsh, and the Dyckman farmhouse of 1784 still stands on Broadway. The residential streets filled in later than most of Manhattan, largely through the 1930s, which is why so much of Inwood is Art Deco: six-story co-ops along Seaman Avenue and around Park Terrace, with brick-and-cast-stone entrances, casement-style steel sash on the stair halls, and deep courtyards. The hillside above Park Terrace keeps a handful of frame and brick houses, unusual in Manhattan. Almost all of it is heated by steam and glazed with single-pane wood that has been painted over for ninety years.

Common Window Challenges in Inwood

• Valley damp and river fog — sitting low between two ridges with water on both sides, Inwood holds moisture that swells sash and rots sills faster than higher ground
• Steel casements on Art Deco stair halls — the narrow steel sections in 1930s buildings corrode and bind, and replacing them without losing the slim sightline takes a purpose-made unit
• Painted-shut wood double-hungs — nine decades of repainting has locked sashes, buried cords and made ropes and pulleys unusable
• Co-op appearance rules on courtyard elevations — Inwood’s deep courtyards make every neighbor’s windows visible from every other, so boards are strict about color and profile
• Hand-carry above the fifth floor — many buildings here were built without elevators large enough for glass, so units come up the stairs and sizing has to allow for it
• Hillside houses in a borough of apartments — the frame and brick houses above Park Terrace need domestic-scale windows and flashing details that apartment work does not

Our Inwood Window Services

Inwood needs two different kinds of work and we do both. In the Art Deco co-ops that means custom units matched to the board’s approved profile, with insulated low-E glass behind a sightline that still reads as 1930s, and steel-replacement sections where the originals have gone. On the hillside houses it is ordinary domestic replacement done carefully on a steep site. Everything is measured to the opening, because nothing here is a standard size.

Book Your Free In-Home Estimate in Inwood

We will visit your apartment, co-op or house, take precise measurements, and show you what can be done within your building’s rules.

Book your free in-home estimate in Inwood — we come to you, it takes 15 minutes, and there’s zero obligation.