Dyckman Street

Dyckman Street

North end approaching the Henry Hudson Parkway
Namesake	William Dyckman
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	0.8 mi (1.3 km)[1]
Location	Manhattan, New York City
West end	NY 9A / Henry Hudson Parkway in Inwood Hill Park
Major junctions	US 9 in Inwood
East end	Harlem River Drive / 10th Avenue in Inwood

Dyckman Street (/daɪkmɪn/ DIKE-man), occasionally called West 200th Street, is a street in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is commonly considered to be a crosstown street because it runs from the Hudson River to the Harlem River and intersects Broadway. However, in its true geographical orientation, Dyckman Street runs roughly from north-northwest to south-southeast, and the majority of the street that lies southeast of Broadway runs closer to a north-south direction than east-west.

It is located where West 200th Street would be: the sequence of numbered Manhattan streets in this neighborhood has a gap between West 193rd Street and West 201st Street (with an exception for a very short West 196th Street). As a rustic 18th century valley road lying between Washington Heights and Inwood Hill, it long preceded the comprehensive Manhattan grid plan, which was not applied in this small part of the island. Dyckman Street has for many years been one of the major shopping streets in the Inwood section, and many consider it the border between Washington Heights and Inwood.