让我们来见识一下纽约最袖珍的住宅，宽9英尺半（约2.85米），高42英尺(12.6米），不过不要小看了这座小楼，人家的身价可不菲呢。这处住宅坐落于格林威治村的贝德福德大街，远处看上去，就像一块三明治一样被塞在两旁的建筑缝隙里。即使以寸土寸金的纽约标准来衡量，也是不折不扣的“小小楼”。由于它的独特性，房地产商亚历克斯表示，已有三个买家约在周四看房，“这个房子实在狭小，怎么做室内装饰可得费一番心思了“，他说。对了，这处房产的要价是270万美元。

A pedestrian takes a picture of the narrowest house in New York City, located at 75 1/2 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. It is 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long and its asking price is $2.7 million.

It's 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its asking price: $2.7 million.

Located at 75 1/2 Bedford St. in Greenwich Village, the red brick building was built in 1873, sandwiched in a narrow space that used to be an alley¹ between homes at 75 and 77 Bedford.

The narrow house is considered a curiosity and is one of the neighborhood's most photographed homes. A small plaque² on the house notes that poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once lived there; so did anthropologist³ Margaret Mead⁴.

Real estate broker⁵ Alex Nicholas says there is interest in the property and he has appointments on Thursday to show the home to three different potential buyers.

The residential⁶ interiors are a tight squeeze even by New York standards, measuring just 8 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long on each of its three floors.

"Due to the narrowness of the house, I think you have to be very clever in how you decorate," Nicholas said.

The current owners bought the house for $1.6 million in 2000.

The broker's Web site describes it as a vertical⁷ suite⁸, with a kitchen, dining room and parlor⁹ on the first floor, a double living room on the second floor and a top-floor master bedroom suite. A trapdoor in the kitchen floor leads to a finished basement.

Large windows in the front and back of the house and a garret skylight, plus a small backyard garden, give it "an airiness, a sense of light and charm," Nicholas said.

He predicted the property will fetch its listed price due to its uniqueness, history and location in one of the city's most famous preserved neighborhoods.

Vocabulary:

garret：顶楼

skylight：天窗