Posted on 08/29/2009 11:55:47 PM PDT by Daffynition
NEW YORK (AP) - It's 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its asking price : $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.
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 has appointments on Thursday to show the home to three different potential buyers.
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.
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9 1/2 feet wide. I’m getting short of breath just trying to picture that.
Try to imagine three 40’ refrigerator trailers stacked.
The house at 75 1/2 Bedford St. in Greenwich Village is 42 feet long and three stories high which makes the total square footage about 1,200 feet. Some houses in New York City, probably not far from 75 1/2 Bedford St. in Greenwich Village, have bedrooms bigger than that.
How much per square foot
So, with a price tag of $2.7 million, the house at 75 1/2 Bedford St. in Greenwich Village costs about $2,250 per square foot. Just for the sake of comparison, my college studio apartment cost 78 cents per square foot. Now that I think of it, maybe I should have stayed there. Id have a lot of extra cash now.
I’d lose my last remaining marble within 7 minutes, tops.
That's an effective image.
Still laboring over my wind, however.
Then you'd fit right in.
NYers are famous [infamous] for putting up with sub-standard housing for exorbitant prices/prices.
Strange but true “coincidence”.
Back in the dim and distant past, my first husband and I were apartment hunting.
We answered a promising ad and were led into a “house” that was maybe 12 feet wide and 30 feet long.
*That* was not the worst part, however...the wooden floors were painted bright, slaughterhouse red.
The landlord asked if we wanted to see the upstairs.
Although I was no more than 3 feet inside the threshold, I backed out so fast I nearly fell off the front steps.
[and I’m not even claustrophobic...the place was just so geometrically *disturbing*]
[woulda made a nice duckpin alley, though]...:)
It’s a long tall trailer! Put a presidential library in it.
2.7 hundred a unit! Hurry they're going fast.
For a house with this much square footage I wonder what the “property” taxes are ? 9 1/2 by 30 or 40
It still has more square footage than my cozy 3 bedroom humble abode.
The Skinny House in Boston is pretty well-known, at least in the area. The story goes that in 1874, a couple of brothers had a fight over the land they had jointly inherited from their father. Instead of properly settling the fight, one brother built a large home on the land while the other brother was away in the military. When the traveling brother returned home, he decided to spite his greedy brother and build a small house on what was left of the land they both owned, blocking his brothers nice view. It still stands today and is occupied. At its widest point, the Skinny House is just over 10 feet wide. The narrowest point in the house is only 6.2 feet wide.
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