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Sylvan Place is a former small street running fromEast 120th Street toEast 121st Street, between and parallel toLexington Avenue andThird Avenue, in theEast Harlem neighborhood ofManhattan in New York City. The signage for the street still exists. The street's ground area now serves as Harlem Art Park and theHarlem Courthouse's frontage and parking lot.
Directly opposite Sylvan Place, on East 121st Street, isSylvan Court Mews, orSylvan Court (which is sometimes confused with Sylvan Place). Sylvan Court Mews is a smalldead end private street that is unpaved, and contains several 1880s townhouses. Unlike in other parts of these city with similar houses, likeGreenwich Village andBrooklyn Heights, the small street and court have not been restored.[1][2] Both Sylvan Place and Sylvan Court were part of the formerEast Post Road, which led from the city to Boston. The intersection of the East Post Road, Kingsbridge Post Road, Harlem Road, and Church Lane formed a five-cornered intersection, and the neighborhood that surrounded it was sometimes known as the Five Points, not to be confused with theneighborhood of the same name in lower Manhattan. Sylvan Place and Sylvan Court met at the former five-pointed intersection.[3]
Sylvan Terrace, a historic grouping of 20 three-story, wood-framed townhouses ormews within theJumel Terrace Historic District inWashington Heights, Manhattan, is sometimes erroneously known as Sylvan Place.[4]
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