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At just nine-and-a-half feet wide, New York City’s narrowest townhouse at 75½ Bedford Street is once again for sale, asking $4,195,000. The historic 1873 townhouse is known as much for its famous past residents as for its narrow size. Known as Millay House, it has been home to poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and cartoonist William Steig, as well as screen luminaries Cary Grant and John Barrymore. The townhouse has since been renovated for modern living, making the most of its slender proportions.

The Milay House hit the market in August 2021 for $4,990,000 and found a buyer the next year. According to the New York Times, Dr. Tandra Hammer paid $3.41 million in 2023 for the home, where her daughter,

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