Cool.  Thanks for the article.
I think these things are appealing, like doll houses.
(Have you seen H. C. Andersen's birthplace in Odense?)

But how about my key shop?
I'm actually not sure it was a 5-foot building;
maybe only the shop was that narrow.
It wasn't on a corner; it was a little ways east
of some avenue, probably Third, and I don't know
Manhattan well enough, but I would guess
in the 30s or 40s.  On the south side of the street.
This was in the 1960s.

At 12:48 PM 6/6/2010, [log in to unmask] wrote: 
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>In a message dated 6/6/2010 1:43:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
>I too love thin buildings.  Many years ago I stumbled on a shop in Manhattan that was only about 5 feet wide.  East side -- does anyone know it?  It bore a sign saying narrowest shop in New York.  I think you could get keys made there.
> 
>"His Grave to Be As Wide As His House"
> 
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/realestate/streetscapes-82nd-street-lexington-avenue-echo-1882-spite-house-that-blocked.html
> 
>Christopher

Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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