Dyckman Street (sometimes 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 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.