Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay (above) was one of the "Bohemians" who put Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood on the map. Millay and others such as dancer Isadora Duncan and writer Eugene O'Neill made "The Village" a place where anything goes - an identification the neighborhood still clings to today.
Back in the 1920's, Millay lived at 75 1/2 Bedford Street in a former carriage house and cobbler's shop. It is said that this is the house where Millay seduced literary critic Edmund Wilson - one of her many lovers (male and female). The nine and a half feet-wide structure still survives today (see picture below), and it is said to be the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. In 1993 the house sold for less than $300,000 - but today would probably sell for a few million. It is not unusual for larger townhouses in the neighborhood to sell for $10 million or more.
I work about 3 blocks away from this house, but have only walked past it two or three times in all the years I've lived in New York. Bedford Street is almost exclusively residential, with very few (if any) businesses - thus there isn't much reason to go there unless you live there.
Sources: Ephemeral New York and Wikipedia.
Back in the 1920's, Millay lived at 75 1/2 Bedford Street in a former carriage house and cobbler's shop. It is said that this is the house where Millay seduced literary critic Edmund Wilson - one of her many lovers (male and female). The nine and a half feet-wide structure still survives today (see picture below), and it is said to be the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. In 1993 the house sold for less than $300,000 - but today would probably sell for a few million. It is not unusual for larger townhouses in the neighborhood to sell for $10 million or more.
I work about 3 blocks away from this house, but have only walked past it two or three times in all the years I've lived in New York. Bedford Street is almost exclusively residential, with very few (if any) businesses - thus there isn't much reason to go there unless you live there.
Sources: Ephemeral New York and Wikipedia.
