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Bedford Street is a house located in the West Village neighborhood of New York
City that is only 9 feet 6 inches wide. Built in 1873, it is often
described as the narrowest* house in New York. Its past tenants have
included Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ann McGovern, cartoonist William Steig and
anthropologist Margaret Mead.
The
three-story house is located between Commerce and Morton Streets, not far
from Seventh Avenue South in the West Village section of Manhattan. It is considered
the narrowest* townhouse in New York City by the city’s Landmarks
Preservation Commission. On the inside, the house measures 8 feet 7 inches
wide, and at its narrowest, it is only two feet wide. The external dimensions
of the house are approximately 9.5 feet by 42 feet, on a lot that is 80 feet
deep. City records list the house as 999 square feet.
The
current owner is George Gund IV (son of sports entrepreneur George Gund III),
who purchased the house for $3.25 million in June 2013.
*According
to Wikipedia, New York City tax records suggests that several residential
buildings may be smaller, The tax files list a 9-foot wide house that shares
a lot with a larger house on East 27th Street in Manhattan, and a
corner building in Greenpoint in Brooklyn with an office on the ground floor
listed at just under 8 feet. (Your humble blogger is not inclined to conduct
any further investigation, and is going with 75 ½ Bedford as being the
narrowest house in NYC).
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