New York City's Skinniest House For Sale (Photos)

On : 2009 Aug 27

Skinniest house photo

The skinniest house in New York City is on the market but the asking price is no so skinny.

The 9-1/2-feet-wide, 42 feet long, townhouse at 75½ Bedford St. in Greenwich Village, is listed for $2.75 million.

Built in 1873, the three-story, 990-square-foot red brick building is one of the neighborhood's most photographed homes. Actors Cary Grant, author Ann McGovern, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay are some of the residents who once lived there.

The interior of the house is only 8-1/2-feet wide and 42-feet long and has a trapdoor in the kitchen floor that leads to a finished basement. The house has 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.

Christopher Dubs, an architecture preservationist bought the house in 1994 for $270,000 and spent about $200,000 fixing it.

Steven Balsamo, the current owner purchased the house from Dubs in 2000 for $1.6 million.

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