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75 1/2 Bedford Street
Could you live in this super narrow house? At just 9.5ft wide, this quaint 1873 townhouse is the narrowest in New York. The three-story redbrick house is believed to have been a carriageway for the adjacent home, a 1799 townhouse built by Joshua Isaacs, the oldest house in Greenwich Village and among the oldest in New York. 75 1/2 Bedford Street went through several residents before Pulitzer-prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay moved in with her husband from 1923–4. Later occupants include cartoonist William Steig, along with his wife, Elizabeth, and her sister, well-known anthropologist Margaret Mead and then children's book author Ann McGovern, inspiring her to write Mr Skinner's Skinny House. The house is not open to the public, but you can certainly take pictures out front. Where else will you find a handsome home so narrow, squeezed in between its two larger neighbors?
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