Want a piece of New York City history? Well, you better have a pile of cash and a whole lot of savings to treat yourself with this tiny yet pricey home.

This 9.5 feet wide and 42 feet long narrow red-brick townhouse, located at 75 1/2 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, was built in 1873. It is squeezed between 75 and 77 Bedford St. and with this size; it is billed as the narrowest house in New York City with an asking price of $2.7 million. The current owner bought it in 2000 for $1.6 million.

The three-story structure boasts plenty of light with large windows in the front and back, and a skylight. The interior of the house is only 8-1/2-feet wide and 42-feet long and has a trapdoor in the kitchen floor that leads to a finished basement.

This skinny house was once owned by two great females, Margaret Mead and Edna St. Vincent Millay. American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and one of the most influential female thinkers in the social sciences, Margaret Mead was a celebrity as well as an intellectual, who wrote academic and popular books. While Millay, also known as Nancy Boyd for her prose works, was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs.

Author Ann McGovern lived there briefly and the red-brick house inspired her to co-write the novel “Mr. Skinner’s Skinny House.” Corcoran’s Web site claims that actors Cary Grant and John Barrymore also once called the thin house home.