A Pomander Walk home has listed for $1.39M
This storybook lane of bucolic cottages on the Upper West Side forces even the most hardcore New Yorkers to do a double take.
Two rare co-op units are now for sale along Pomander Walk, a hidden street just blocks away from Riverside Park and Central Park.
The duplex opportunity inside one of the lane’s Tudor-style cottages hit the market today for $1.39 million, according to an eye-catching StreetEasy listing update.
Pomander Walk is located off of the city’s standard street grid, tucked snuggly between West 94th and West 95th streets. Two wrought iron gates keep curious passersby at bay, but that doesn’t stop the masses from peering in at the colorful doors, shutters and gardens that line the landmarked co-op.
Sales inside any of Pomander Walk’s 27 idyllic cottages are a rarity, but not unheard of. A two-bedroom unit along the lane hit the market in May for $749,000. That home entered contract in less than a month.
The two units on offer sit on the second and third floors of a corner cottage along West 95th Street. Each level, with one bedroom and one bathroom apiece, is also listed separately for $699,000.
The one-bedrooms each contain a small kitchen and a modest bathroom. Their hardwood floors and white-washed walls offer buyers a uniquely blank canvas within such a historic home.
Douglas Elliman agents Kim Shankman and Jennifer Kalish share the listings.
The landmarked enclave numbers among the city’s few remaining mews and mew lookalikes, à la Sylvan Terrace in Washington Heights and Murray Hill’s Sniffen Court — where Graham Norton recently sold his jewel box townhouse.
Pomander Walk was founded in 1921 by the Irish developer Thomas Healy. The micro-neighborhood took its namesake and its aesthetic from a 1910 English play by Louis N. Parker.
Parker’s “Pomander Walk,” chronicled the daily lives of neighbors along the River Thames. Healy’s little English lane in Manhattan went on to a similarly tight-knit community that has endured for 104 years.
Stars like Humphrey Bogart, Rosalind Russel and Lilian Gish reportedly number among the complex’s former owners.
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