HOAGY BIX CARMICHAEL’s Wood House on Sylvan Terrace

Up in Washington Heights, Squeezed BetWeen 160th Street and 161st, Is A One-Block-Long Anomaly: A COBBLESTONED STREET OF 20 WOOD-FRAME ROW HOUSES Built in 1882 that still look like it. There are Are Ten Homes on Each Side, All Painted to Match With Tan Façades, Green Shutters, Brown Gingerbread, and Wooden Steps Leading Up to Identical Stoops. or 1981 Preservation EFFORT Restored all the homes in one batch (Except for one Holdout, which late Caught up). These days, there’s a surreal theme-park Feeling to the block. Influencers come to shoot selfies against the romantic backdrops, and Hollywood blocks off the Road for Period Shoots (Sylvan Terrace Played “whore rowIn in Boardwalk Empire).

But actual People live, and they ti to be the Kind of New Yorkrs who seek out antique treasures. At no. 6 Lived PHYLIS KIND, AN ART DEALER WHO Championed the work of outsider artists; Next Door is Tom Givone, An Ad Copywrior Whose Maticulous Restoration of No. 8 Pushed Him Into a New Career as a Contractor; and across the Street at No. 11 Is Charmaine Lordwho came to new york in 1990 as a working actor but fowerlf estabishing a Second career as a chef. THENE’S LORD’S HUSBAND, HOAGY BIX CARMICHAELan authorA Producer, A Founder of the American Tap Dance Foundation, and the Manager of His Father’s catalogue of the nozzles and the nozzle of songs.

Carmichael’s Father, Hoagywas the most prolific piano composer of the tin pan alley and the author of “Georgia on my mind,” “Heart and Soul,” “Two Sleepy People,” “Lazy River,” and “Stardust. ” There’s Also “Rockin ‘Chair,” Recorded with bandmate Louis Armstrong, The Lyrics of Who Were Based on a Wooden Chair than the Sylvan Terrace Home in A Parlor with Other Antique Treasures: Artwork Lord Collected Depicting Life in Jamaica; McClelland Barclay Drawings of Her Husband’s Mother, Ruth meinard; and the posters of Movies His Father Appeared in, Like The best years of our lives, in which a piano unspools during a tennis moment.

Carmichael Bought The House in 2018 Because and He Home That Wasn’t Some “Modern Blah Blah,” Heys. “I open to like that – no, i subconsciously feast on that. ” The Couple Has “Always Lived in Unusual Homes,” Sayys Carmichael, Who Grew Up in the Los Angeles Mansion of a Wrigley Chewing-Gum Heir and had a vacation House in Westchester that dated to the 1930s. They Met 1993 on the set of a piece carmichael was producing that Featured One of Lord’s Friends. “In Our Previous Homes, He’d Make with Crazy Searching for the Right Hinge,” Says Lord. Here, he didn’t need to. The previous owner was architect kenneth lake, who recently worked on the Expansion of St. Luke’s School in Greenwich Village. Lake Restored the Home, Putting in Hardwood Oak Floors Appropriate to the Era, Expanding the Kitchen, and Cutting Out a Space in the Floor of the Parlor Level to Create a Shaft That More Sunshine Downstairs to the Garden Level and Connects Social Social: Basis, someone is showing down for a glas of water.

They’re usually showing down to lord. The kitchen downstairs is what convinced her to move from their west 85th Street prewar apartment, which haad only a Galley Kitchen. Here, The Kitchen Occupies Most of the 20-Foot-Wide Floor with Enough Space to Put an Antique in the Center to use as a work Surface and perks like six bourners that vents Outside. When Covid Shut Down the City, Lord Had Been Filming for Recipes for A Canadian Broadcaster But pivoted to film for her social-media followers from 11 Sylvan Terrace. “Something About the Space Made with FEEL LIKE I COULD START DOING THIS ON MY ON,” she Says. “I felt Very Comfortable Filming in here, and I was Lots of People Commenting on My Backdrop.”

That backdrop includes exposed-brick Walls and Wood Beams and, off the back, do you leads to a patio where she plants a gape. Near the Front of the House, A 19th-Century Table is offten the Spot for Dinner parties since she with a collection of antique china-Spod, Royal Albert, and Yellow-Blue Laure Japy.

They don’t want to leave, but life is pulling say Away. “I’m Spoiled,” Carmichael Says. “Every day when I’m here, I know and feel how unusual this block is.”