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    Would You Live in the Skinniest House in New York City?

    By | At Home – Fri, May 4, 2012 2:47 PM EDT

    Here's the skinny on a celebrated townhouse in the West Village: At just 9½ feet wide and 30 feet deep (including the rear garden), the Millay house at 75½ Bedford Street is universally described as the narrowest abode in New York City-and it's on the market.

    Best known as the former residence of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (actors John Barrymore and Cary Grant also once lived here), it's being advertised as both a sale and a rental: Lease it for $13,500 a month, or buy it for $3.95 million-$550,000 less than its $4.3 million ask this past December. Built in 1850, the recently renovated 990-square-foot townhouse hardly seems claustrophobic, with three bedrooms, a balcony overlooking a private garden, four wood-burning fireplaces, and a washer/dryer.
    -Barbara Thau

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