Skinniest New York house has fat price
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August 28, 2009, Friday
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IT'S 2.9 meters wide and 12.8 meters long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its asking price: US$2.7 million.
Located at 75 1/2 Bedford St in Greenwich Village, the red brick building was built in 1873, sandwiched in a narrow space that used to be an alley between homes at 75 and 77 Bedford St.
The narrow house is considered a curiosity and is one of the neighborhood's most photographed homes. A small plaque on the house notes that poet Edna St Vincent Millay once lived there; so did anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Real estate broker Alex Nicholas says there is interest in the property and he already has three different potential buyers.
The residential interiors are a tight squeeze even by New York standards.
"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 US$1.6 million in 2000.
The broker's Website 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," Nicholas said.
Located at 75 1/2 Bedford St in Greenwich Village, the red brick building was built in 1873, sandwiched in a narrow space that used to be an alley between homes at 75 and 77 Bedford St.
The narrow house is considered a curiosity and is one of the neighborhood's most photographed homes. A small plaque on the house notes that poet Edna St Vincent Millay once lived there; so did anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Real estate broker Alex Nicholas says there is interest in the property and he already has three different potential buyers.
The residential interiors are a tight squeeze even by New York standards.
"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 US$1.6 million in 2000.
The broker's Website 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," Nicholas said.
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