5. Sylvan Court, Harlem

View down Sylvan Court from 121st Street.

The late 19th century stables on Sylvan Court in Harlem were turned into homes around 1900, but soon fell into disrepair. The houses on the street are a red brick Italianate style of townhouses. Some windows on the small street were boarded up and the paved street became a dirt path further into the complex. But the residences and street have undergone renovations and were put back on the market. Sylvan Court is also little of, if not all of, what remains of the Harlem Old Eastern Post Road that once connected New York and Boston.