Narrowing Your Housing Search

People will put up with a lot to live in New York City. There's not enough space to contain all the people who want to live there so you have to make do. Closets converted into bedrooms. Ovens converted into shoe closets. And if it's in a good neighborhood, who needs a living room? Or a kitchen for that matter? As NPR reports, that's the kind of thinking that had the city's narrowest house selling for $2.75 million.

The three-story home measures just 8.5 feet across. But like a great Craigslist advertiser, the sellers of this home know how to pump up the positives: The house has history. Built in 1873, the place has had its share of famous residents including the anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer Edna St. Vincent Millay. Actors John Barrymore and Cary Grant are also said to have slept there, says the NY Post. The real estate agent also says the place gets plenty of sunshine, which is likely very true since one window would probably be enough to light the entire place. And of course, there's the location, which is in the heart of the West Village.

But really, if you have the means to plunk down a cool $3 million in this economy, you're probably not using the place to sleep in anyway. Instead, we're thinking some lucky lady just found herself the greatest shoe closet ever.