75½ Bedford Street

You are standing before what is widely considered the narrowest townhouse in New York City. Spanning only nine feet and six inches in exterior width, the building occupies a sliver of land that once served as a carriage entrance or horsewalk for the larger properties on either side. Construction records officially date the structure to eighteen seventy-three, though its architectural style suggests it may have originated even earlier as a functional path for delivery carts to reach stables in the rear.