NYC’s skinniest townhouse sells for $3.25M

75 1/2 Bedford Street (center)
75 1/2 Bedford Street (center)

The city’s skinniest townhouse, in the West Village, sold for $3.25 million, the New York Post reported.

The three-story home at 75 ½ Bedford Street, located near Sixth Avenue and Houston Street, was listed for $3.45 million last year, after commanding rents of $14,000 per month. The property rings in at just 990 square feet and about 8 feet wide (though previous reports have the house at 9.5 feet across). But what it lacks in bulk, it makes up for in celebrity pedigree. 

The home is where writer Edna St. Vincent Millay penned her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Ballad of the Harp-Weaver,” in 1923, according to the Post.

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Many other celebrities have squeezed into the home over the years, including Cary Grant and John Barrymore.

The buyer was listed as George Gund, according to city records seen by the Post. [NYP]  – Hiten Samtani