A rarely available home on Pomander Walk in NYC is for sale
A home is now available on one of New York City's most exclusive streets — and it's straight out of an old English play.
The $749,000 two-bedroom unit sits along Pomander Walk, a 104-year-old gated enclave on the Upper West Side.
The idyllic co-op community — with its mock-Tudor style, plus blue, green and red shutters and doors — is like nothing else in Manhattan.
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11 The quaint street looks otherworldly compared to its urban surroundings.
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11 Pomander Walk was landmarked in 1982.
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11 This 600-square-foot unit is on the market for the first time in roughly 30 years.
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'It feels like you're on a TV series from BritBox,' said Compass agent Cole Burden, who is co-listing the property with Nest Seekers' Natalie Weiss. 'It's a very special experience.'
Listings on Pomander Walk are exceedingly rare. The secret street's 27 homes, totaling 60 units, reside off of the city's standard street grid — akin to Sylvan Terrace in Washington Heights.
The micro-neighborhood is tucked away between West 94th and 95th streets, just blocks away from Riverside Park and Central Park.
11 A rendering shows a furnished vision of the two-bedroom home.
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11 The larger bedroom.
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11 A second bedroom can double as a workspace.
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11 The kitchen.
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11 An idyllic view from one of the home's windows.
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The 600-square foot unit currently on offer last sold roughly 30 years ago, according to Burden. The home includes two bedrooms and one bathroom, with a small kitchen and neat built-ins. Burden said he was originally brought in to prepare the apartment for sale through his company SimplifyNYC, which he co-owns alongside his partner Caleb Dicke. Burden described the home as a renovation project.
'We've priced this in a place where buyers have some opportunity to really come in and make this property their own,' he said.
Burden and Weiss both have a special connection to the unique community — Burden told The Post that he first discovered the close-knit community in his 20s, through a close friend that lived there, and Weiss grew up on Pomander Walk.
11 A still image from the 1910 play 'Pomander Walk,' by Louis N. Parker.
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11 The community's developer was inspired by the theatrical set of 'Pomander Walk.'
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11 A gate maintains the exclusive community's privacy.
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The highly private community was built in 1921 by the architectural firm King and Campbell, and commissioned by Irish developer Thomas Healy.
Pomander Walk's bucolic, old-world charm was directly inspired by the set of a popular play of the same name. The historical British comedy 'Pomander Walk' premiered in 1910 and details nine days in the lives of couples living along a row of houses facing the River Thames.
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The property, which counts among the city's few remaining mews and mew lookalikes, was landmarked in 1982. It has been reported that stars like Humphrey Bogart, Rosalind Russel and Lilian Gish once owned homes along the otherworldly lane.
The home includes a $2,000 monthly maintenance fee, according to the listing, with amenities like a live-in super, porter service, bicycle storage and private storage units available to residents.
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