Exclusive | This charmingly exclusive NYC secret street hardly ever sees its homes list now 3 seek new residents

Imagine a row of 20 yellow-painted wooden townhouses — each dressed with pine green shutters, double-door entries and ornate brown cornices — lining a cobblestone path to a grand mansion built in 1765.This scene may seem more appropriate in colonial America, but today it remains far uptown in Washington Heights.Sylvan Terrace, long regarded as one of the city’s coveted “secret streets” — otherwise known as one of the mews and alleys tucked away from the residential street grid, where carriage houses and horse stables later converted into houses — is a world apart from the surrounding area.There, those 20 three-story homes — developed in 1882 for working-class residents — flank a carriage lane to the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest surviving residence in Manhattan.

It may also seem those townhouses rarely become available for sale or rent, which is largely true.But now, three of them seek new residents — marking a prime chance for New Yorkers on the house hunt to move into one of the city’s most charmingly exclusive enclaves.“It’s really tight-knit, everyone looks out for each other — and you don’t typically find that in New York,” 56-year-old Alexander Scheirle, the executive director of the Grammy-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, told The Post of the Sylvan Terrace community.

Scheirle has owned No.7 since 2012, when he purchased it for $913,000, and now has the two-bedroom spread on the market for rent with Lori Huler Glick and Lisa Marie Abrahamson of Brown Harris Stevens for $6,800 per month.

“People are constantly moving — you have one-year, two-year contracts — and you don’t really make an effort to get to know your neighbors.That’s so different in Sylvan Terrace, and I was surprised when I moved there.”It’s different on Sylvan Terrace because residents tend to stay there.

Since 2018, according to sales records reviewed by The Post, only seven homes there have traded hands.What’s more, only four of those h...