In the Pandemic Present, a Literary Tour of Greenwich Villageâs Past From the quirky brownstones to the birth of queer New York and the tangle of streets themselves, everything about this neighborhood has defied the grid from the beginning. The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen Jan Boissevain, in front of their home at 75½ Bedford Street, which has been cited as the ânarrowest house in New York,â c. 1923.Credit...Library of Congress Published March 17, 2021Updated March 18, 2021 When my boyfriend and I moved from our pocket-size Greenwich Village apartment ...