Inwood is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.

[2] A meeting was held by the Town of Hempstead on January 16, 1663, and during that meeting, the name of what is now Inwood was changed to North West Point (also spelled as Northwest Point), named after its geographic position in relation to the more central part of Far Rockaway, which it was then part of.

Its original settlers were Jamaica Bay fishermen, generally lawless and troublesome to other Rockaway residents.

[2] By changing the community's name, the locals were able to get a post office for Inwood, which ultimately opened on February 25, 1889.

[2] The first true road in the area, the Inwood end of Lord Avenue, was built when the neighboring village of Lawrence was developed.

By the time of World War I, a large part of Inwood's population was of Italian and Albanian extraction.

[4] Inwood's northernmost and westernmost boundaries border Queens in the City of New York, and it is located across Head of the Bay from John F. Kennedy international Airport.

[9] Inwood is located entirely within the boundaries of (and is thus served by) the Lawrence Union Free School District,[10] which also serves students from Lawrence, Cedarhurst, and Atlantic Beach, in addition to sections of North Woodmere and Woodmere.

[5] NICE runs buses on the area's far eastern border of Rockaway Turnpike where the n31 makes a few stops.

[5] Major roadways within Inwood include the Nassau Expressway (NY 878) (which bisects the hamlet) and Rockaway Turnpike (CR 257).