Would you live inside New York’s skinniest house for a whopping $4.3 millie?! Find out why the house is so damn skinny and check out photos of its inside after the jump!!
(DailyMail)-Â The narrowest house in the city, once home to Cary Grant and a modern tourist attraction in its own right, has gone on sale for a whopping $4.3million – double what it sold for just one year ago.
The hefty price increase is down to the renovations at number 75 1/2 Bedford St – though at just 9.5ft wide and 30ft deep, it’s hard to envision what sort of renovations could have justified such a cost.
But the broker claims The Millay House has been ‘meticulously restored’ – and its colourful history and position firmly on the city’s tourist trail will help.
Along with Grant, the property has been home to actor John Barrymore, poet Edna St Vincent Millay and cartoonist William Steig – none of whom, clearly, ever suffered from claustrophobia.
The house’s unique size is due to the fact it was built in the mid-1800s after its neighbours simply to fill in a carriage entrance way leading to the stables behind the next door property.
Now a well-known stop-off on the tourist trail in Bohemian Greenwich Village its fame is a far cry from its past use as a shoemaker’s shop and a sweet factory.
The skinny house even came close to demolition in 1950, before a lawyer stepped in to save it and its neighbours from being razed.
But its future appears assured for now. It sold for $1.6million in 2000 and $2.175million in 2010 – now the owners have listed it with an asking price of $4.3million.
