Photo by AP.
The red, 3m by 12m long brick building in Greenwich Village was built in 1873 on land used as an alley between homes.
The town house was listed for sale last August at $US2.7 million. The two bedroom, two bath home last sold in 2000 for $US1.6 million.
A plaque on the narrow Bedford Street home notes poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once lived there; so too did anthropologist Margaret Mead.
The newly-sold building was listed on real estate Web sites as a rental available for $US10,000 a month.
An e-mail seeking comment from the listed rental agent on Wednesday was not immediately returned.
