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A tourist took a picture on Wednesday of the narrowest home in New York City. Photo: Yanina Manolova, AP
Do you like tight spaces and have a lot of money? You're in luck--the narrowest home in New York City, at just 9.5 feet wide, is on sale for a not-so-slim $2.75 million.
See the listing for interior gallery.
The house, built between two larger townhouses in 1873, even has a tiny address: 75 1/2 Bedford St. It doesn't have any closets and the refrigerator is wedged under the stairs. But thanks to three floors plus a basement, it occupies a respectable 1,500-square-feet.
Despite its width, the "skinny house" has been something of a revolving door of who's whos. Cary Grant, John Barrymore, anthropologist Margaret Mead and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay were all residents. Hard to imagine the stars of today moving in.
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