265 W 94th St.  

40.793779, -73.973507 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Signs on the entrance
Address
268 WEST 95th ST. / 268 WEST 95th STREET

Historical background Checkpoint picture 13

Pomander Walk is a small residential complex in Manhattan on the Upper West Side. There are a total of 27 two-floor cottages on that “street”. Facades of eight cottages face each other forming a narrow courtyard. Each building originally had one apartment on each floor. In recent years, some buildings have been reconfigured to serve as single-family homes. In 1920 nightclub impresario Thomas Healy acquired the rights for a 200-year rent of the area where Pomander Walk is presently located. He planned to build a 16-floor hotel on the site. However instead of that in 1921 he financed construction of two-floor cottages which were to perform the function of rental houses on a temporary basis. The buildings were designed by the New York architecture firm King and Campbell. The residential complex was named for a homonymous play by Louis Parker popular at that time and staged in New York in 1910. In 1966 the residents filed a request for inclusion of Pomander Walk in the US Register of National Historic Landmarks, but it was declined. However, in 1982 the area got a New York City landmark status, and in 1983 it was included in the National Historic Landmarks Register. Past residents of Pomander Walk include such actors as Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Mary Martin, Humphrey Bogart and Rosalind Russell.

Present in routes of categories Lion, Atlas, Griffin

Passed by: 44/60 (73%).

By categories:

  • Atlas: 8/15 (53%)
  • Griffin: 8/9 (89%)
  • Lion: 28/36 (78%)