9 MacDougal Alley

The main room is a loft-like studio under a large artist's skylight, with a south-facing balcony off the second floor reached through French doors and lined with lavender. The house is 25 feet wide, about 1,500 square feet over three floors, in a gated mews behind Washington Square Park.

It has two full bathrooms, a wood-burning fireplace, a garden with mature plantings, and kitchens on the ground and second floors. The deeded parking space is directly in front.

The listing dates the mews to 1833 and describes it as lined with the former carriage houses of the Washington Square Park North mansions. Untapped Cities and Brick Underground place stables for those houses in the 1830s, and the alley's stables were being turned into artists' studios by about 1914.

The listing says Jackson Pollock used the townhouse as his studio in the early 1950s, and that the stage designer Fred Kolo has lived and worked here for nearly 40 years.