{"id":547245,"date":"2025-11-03T23:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/547245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:38:25","slug":"step-inside-new-yorks-narrowest-townhouse-under-nine-feet-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/547245\/","title":{"rendered":"step inside new york’s narrowest townhouse, under nine feet wide"},"content":{"rendered":"

a slender west village landmark is listed<\/p>\n

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Among the 19th-century rowhouses of Bedford Street in New York<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s West Village its enduring, the city\u2019s narrowest townhouse<\/strong><\/a> stands that just 8 feet, 7 inches wide. Fronted by a three-story brick<\/strong><\/a> facade, the unusual home at 75 1\/2 Bedford Street was built in 1873. Now listed by Sotheby\u2019s International Realty, the renovated<\/strong><\/a> residence distills a century and a half of adaptation into a vertical sequence of precisely composed domestic spaces.<\/p>\n

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The townhouse\u2019s slender proportions heighten visitors\u2019 sense of spatial awareness. Sunlight and circulation take precedence over volume. A Dutch door opens directly into the kitchen, which shows custom millwork and Italian marble surfaces. Floor-to-ceiling French doors extend the interior toward a small, landscaped garden, creating a rare moment of openness amid the dense urban fabric of lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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vertical living in new york<\/p>\n

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Inside, the plan unfolds as a continuous stair sequence that links intimate rooms arranged along the narrow footprint. Each level is anchored by working wood-burning fireplaces framed in travertine. Oak floors run the length of the home, emphasizing its linear geometry, while a large skylight floods the upper story with daylight that filters through the stairwell.<\/p>\n

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The primary suite on the second level balances simplicity and comfort. A small balcony overlooks the rear garden, and the bathroom, finished in mosaic tile with marble sinks and Lefroy Brooks fixtures, shows the same attention to scale and proportion that guides the rest of the renovation. All throughout, modern interventions remain secondary to the townhouse\u2019s historic structure, and create a sense of continuity between eras.<\/p>\n

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75 1\/2 Bedford Street is recognized as NYC\u2019s narrowest townhouse at just under nine feet wide<\/p>\n

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the star-studded past of NYC\u2019s narrowest townhouse<\/p>\n

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The narrow house has long captured the imagination of the city\u2019s creative community. In the 1920s, it was occupied by a group of actors performing at the nearby Cherry Lane Theater, among them Cary Grant and John Barrymore. Anthropologist Margaret Mead, cartoonist William Steig, and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay \u2014 whose residency gives the building its nickname, the Millay House \u2014 each left their imprint on its history. The modest scale, paired with its setting along one of the West Village\u2019s most intact blocks, has made it a small but lasting emblem of residential architecture in New York.<\/p>\n

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the three-story, 1873-built home stands on one of the most historic blocks in the West Village<\/p>\n

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a Dutch door opens directly into a marble-lined kitchen that connects to a small garden<\/p>\n

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the primary suite includes a balcony and a mosaic-tiled bathroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"a slender west village landmark is listed \u00a0 Among the 19th-century rowhouses of Bedford Street in New York\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[53133,4021,4020,16275,4022,77,14813,17022,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-547245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture-in-new-york","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-brick-architecture","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-renovation-and-restoration-architecture-and-design","15":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115488405874818434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}