$ 5 million for 3 meters: the narrowest house is sold in Manhattan

The former residents of this house include the creator of "Shrek" William Steig and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, a Pulitzer Prize winner, reports Mansion Global.

Narrowest house in New York put up for sale for $ 4,99 million.

Just 2,8 meters wide, a three-story townhouse on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village offers an upright lifestyle. The townhouse has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a fully equipped basement for living.

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Several historical figures lived in this unusual house. Including anthropologist Margaret Mead, cartoonist William Steig (creator of "Shrek") and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The building is now known as Millay House. It was here that Edna wrote The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. For her, the poet received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

According to PropertyShark, the house is currently owned by a company associated with George Gund IV, a real estate investor and photographer. According to documents, Gund bought it in 2013 for $ 3,25 million.

It takes time to get used to home

“It takes time to get used to living in such a tight space,” Gund told The Wall Street Journal in 2013. But, according to him, as soon as he got acclimatized, in this house he had a feeling of comfort.

The house was built in 1873. It still has original wooden beams, an open floor plan on each floor, white oak flooring and four wood-burning fireplaces.

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“All three floors have a lot of light from the skylight and huge windows. At the rear of the house there are floor-to-ceiling French windows on the first and second floors. The windows face a backyard shaded by trees, ”reads the announcement of the sale.

The building's kitchen is adorned with custom-made joinery and Italian marble countertops. In addition, the house has two balconies and a patio.