Welcome to the website for Inwood Manhattan brought to you by Taft Club Collaborators of creativity exploring this unique community’s creative performing artists as well as locally owned stores. It is a neighborhood in New York City that has the only still standing forest in Manhattan. Taft Club (Est. 1982) has been based in Inwood Manhattan since 2006.
Taft Club Movie Studio Online
Taft Club was established in 1982 as a collaboration club for performing artist creators informally on the movie studio lot of Zoetrope Studios in Hollywood, CA.
Taft Club is now a “movie studio online” that throughout the years created and continues to create projects such as web feature films, music, cable TV series like Video Diary NYC, plus theatre, awards shows (such as the coming “Honoring Community Awards”, entertainment/arts events and more.
Some of these projects have occurred in Inwood Manhattan over the years. Currently in development by Taft Club is a sequel to the feature film “Son of Johnny Rave” picking up decades later and is a comedy/horror/thriller entitled “Filmisodes”.
Paul Stanley of the Iconic Rock Band Kiss
As seen in his Inwood Manhattan Paul Stanley, the singer and guitarist of the iconic rock band Kiss, lived in Inwood, Manhattan during his early childhood. Specifically, he lived at 531 West 211th Street until about the age of 8. His family lived in a one-bedroom apartment, with limited space and resources, yet his early environment in Inwood was part of the backdrop to his musical beginnings.
Lin-Manuel Miranda: Emmy, Grammy, Tony-winning and in 2017 Platinum PIAs (awards show from Taft Club that was based in Inwood Manhattan) composer, playwright, and actor known for Hamilton and In the Heights. Miranda is originally from Inwood Manhattan and, with his family, has invested in the People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante (opening in 2026) to cultivate local performing arts and immigrant stories in Northern Manhattan.