N.Y.'s Narrowest House For Sale

The skinniest house in New York City is on the market for a fat price

The 9-1/2-feet-wide townhouse was built in 1873, and is located at 75-1/2 Bedford St. in the West Village. It was put up for sale this week for an asking price of $2.75 million, or $2,777 a square foot.



This is how the house looked in 1932 ...

It's a unique space - one of a kind.

Built in 1873, the diminutive house is squeezed between 75 and 77 Bedford St. and has been home to a who's-who list of luminaries, including anthropologist Margaret Mead and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Author Ann McGovern lived there briefly and the red-brick house inspired her to co-write the novel "Mr. Skinner's Skinny House." Actors Cary Grant and John Barrymore also once called the thin house home.

The residential interiors are a tight squeeze even by New York standards, measuring just 8 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long on each of its three floors.

"Due to the narrowness of the house, I think you have to be very clever in how you decorate," Nicholas said.

The current owners bought the house for $1.6 million in 2000.

The broker's Web site describes it as a vertical suite, with a kitchen, dining room and parlor on the first floor, a double living room on the second floor and a top-floor master bedroom suite. A trapdoor in the kitchen floor leads to a finished basement.

Large windows in the front and back of the house and a garret skylight, plus a small backyard garden, give it an airiness, a sense of light and charm.


Your guide shows how wide the house is ...



The city's skinniest house, 75 1/2 Bedford St. in West Village, is listed for sale for $2.75M. The home's interior is slightly more than 8-feet wide.

Real estate records show the current owner, Steven Balsamo, purchased the house in 2000 for $1.6 million from Christopher Dubs, an architecture preservationist.

Dubs bought the house in 1994 for $270,000 and spent about $200,000 fixing it.

So if you act now this could be yours!!!!!!!!!!!!