Elegant Uptown Historic District 2 Bedroom Apartment w/Large Garden.

Description

Your pied a terre on Harlem's Sugar Hill. The secluded self-contained garden apartment with private entrance was Jumel Terrace Books, an antiquarian bookshop specializing in Harlem Heights local history from the Revolution through the jazz-age Renaissance to its vibrant present. The townhouse is directly across the street from the Roger Morris Park and the Jumel Mansion, the oldest residence in Manhattan: George Washington’s headquarters for 1776's Battle of Harlem Heights, where Alexander Hamilton met his match in Aaron Burr, and home to the infamous grand horizontal, Madame Eliza Jumel. At the time Duke Ellington lived across the street he dubbed the house “The Crown of Sugar Hill,” the immediate neighborhood was also home to W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Coleman Hawkins, Teddy Wilson, Andy Kirk, Mary Lou Williams, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Charles Alston, Dr. Kenneth Clark, Thurgood Marshall, and dozens of other Jazz Masters. The apartment features full kitchen and bath (shower), a large bedroom/library with an 19th c. French Queen size brass bed, another even quieter double bedded room with a New York City library, a sitting room with single bed/daybed, desk, dining table, garden view/access and a horticulture library. The flat features cable television, internet access, a/c and a full ornamental garden with a gas grill. Wine and dine al fresco on Sunday afternoons as the sounds of Marjorie Elliot’s Parlor Jazz waif from her nearby apartment. There is an optional highly rated orange house cat, available on request. The accommodations are available at weekly and monthly rates. The house’s photo shoot, conference and party facilities rates are available on inquiry. Walk to City College, 20 minutes to Columbia University, 15 to Columbia Presbyterian hospital. Enjoy local museums, entertainments and Sugar Hill cuisine, old New York charms, and easy transportation, subways and buses within two blocks, car services readily available.) There is an impressive branch of the NYPL on the near corner and most amenities within a three minute walk: laundry, dry cleaners, groceries, liquor, hardware, pharmacy & pizza.

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