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Feb 2023

This is a perfectly intact street of wooden row homes. It is surprising to see in Manhattan. Not far from U tied Palace or Columbia Presbyterian Hospital

“Great example of early New York rental housing development adjacent to the Morris-Jumel Mansion”

Feb 2022

Sylvan Terrace is a Great example of early New York rental housing development adjacent to the Morris-Jumel Mansion. As the urban city expanded northwards (from Battery Park), the need to affordable rental housing also grew. This street has facing examples of those very early rental apartments, which managed to service to this day. Visiting this street at the same time as the Morris-Jumel Mansion is a good outing.

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Neighborhood: Washington Heights

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163rd St – Amsterdam Ave • 2 min walk
157th St • 7 min walk

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Acton, MA730 contributions

Great example of early New York rental housing development adjacent to the Morris-Jumel Mansion

Feb 2022

Sylvan Terrace is a Great example of early New York rental housing development adjacent to the Morris-Jumel Mansion. As the urban city expanded northwards (from Battery Park), the need to affordable rental housing also grew. This street has facing examples of those very early rental apartments, which managed to service to this day. Visiting this street at the same time as the Morris-Jumel Mansion is a good outing.

Written February 26, 2022

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nycmom22

New York City, NY3,017 contributions

When you are in Washington Heights

Feb 2023 • Couples

This is a perfectly intact street of wooden row homes. It is surprising to see in Manhattan. Not far from U tied Palace or Columbia Presbyterian Hospital

Written February 10, 2023

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Overtimetravel

Brooklyn, NY358 contributions

Historic Sylvan Terrace

May 2019 • Business

Some of the oldest wooden houses of nyc still inhabited. Built in the late 1800s. This great cobble stone alley will lead you to the Morris Jumel Mansion where George Wahsington lived for a few months during the revolutionary war 1776. A wealthy French Wine merchant Maurice Jumel bought it after that.
This street gives you a great sense of what the neighborhood looked like back in time. You can see the European influence with the outside shades.
Worth the trip to Upper Harlem to discover this gem.

Written May 29, 2019

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