Inwood is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 9,792 at the 2010 census. It is considered portion of Long Island’s Five Towns area and is located within the Town of Hempstead.

Inwood was first granted in 1600s. Like many other approachable communities, the Place was known as Near Rockaway. A meeting was held by the Town of Hempstead upon January 16, 1663, and during that meeting, the reveal of what is now Inwood was changed to North West Point (also spelled as Northwest Point), named after its geographic position as regards the more central allowance of Far Rockaway, which it was subsequently part of. It became the first Place which was considering known as Near Rockaway to be fixed idea its own name. Its native settlers were Jamaica Bay fishermen, generally revolutionary and troublesome to extra Rockaway residents. Soon after the American Civil War, the area in 1871 became known as Westville. The Westville designation was used until residents petitioned for the United States Postal Service to state a pronounce office in the community. The broadcast office refused as a Westville already existed upstate. This led locals to fiddle with the community’s proclaim to Inwood in December 1888. This name acknowledged the most votes; the supplementary proposed names included Bayhead, Springhaven, Radwayton, Elco, Raway, Pike’s Peak, and Custer. By varying the name, the locals were practiced to get a post office for Inwood, which opened on February 25, 1889.

The proclaim office closed ca. 1920, and it was not until 1949 as soon as a other post office would admission in the community (although an unsuccessful try was made in 1932).

The first valid road in the area, the Inwood halt of Lord Avenue, was built as soon as the adjacent to village of Lawrence was developed.