Posted on 07/10/2012 6:19:17 AM PDT by C19fan
New York City’s diminutive apartments have long been the butt of many a housing joke, but now developers are poised to take the concept of downsizing to a new low. City planners believe that tiny studio units measuring 300 square feet – or six times the size of a standard jail cell at Rikers Island - could be the answer to a growing population of singles and two-person households. Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday invited developers to come up with ways to fill 335 East 27 Street with what officials are calling ‘micro-units.’
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What will be the rent? Two thousand,,,three thousand a month?
Young people can live anywhere. And if they love NY, they’ll certainly like these little apartments. I have a small apartment in “Curry Hill” in Manhattan. It looks like a doll’s house with a miniature fridge and stove. So cute.
Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew Wambua said he expected the micro-units would rent for significantly less.
Only if you are Charlie Rangel. lol
I agree with you. This idea sucks and is just another stepping stone towards a THX1138/Logan’s Run/Clockwork Orange dystopian society.
(Dystopia is defined as a society characterized by poverty, squalor, or oppression)
Question is...do you have your own bathroom? These won’t. Guaranteed!
Where would I put my “stuff”?
As an isolated unit here and there, a micro apartment is fine. It meets a market demand.
But to have an entire building of micro apartments is a disaster.
It wouldn’t take much for a building of micro apartments to become a brothel, a drug den, a place for single moms with multiple irresponsible children, etc.
You call that living? You’ve lived in inner-city squallor for so long that you think it is normal.
If you buy a house you pay yearly real estate taxes, school taxes, fees, fines, violations, lawyers, handyman, contractor, plumber, permits, lawyers ....
City makes more money on homeowners. They're easy prey. It's because of tenants that they receive violations mostly because tenants ignore city laws. The landlord pays for tenant disobedience.
The 20’ models do well as a hidden bunker when buried next to an existing basement...
Give me land, lots of land beneath the starry skies. Don’t fence me in. Let me ride the wide open spaces, don’t fence me in.
Question is...do you have your own bathroom? These won’t. Guaranteed!
And you know this,,,how?
Ha! What do you know?
I also own a pretty house in NJ. Pied a terres are very common in NYC. Places to drop after you’ve had dinner and seen a B’way show. I love my little apartment and so does my husband.
I’m sooooooooo sick of the city haters on this site.
A single room in the Chelsea Hotel is $200 a night. The Y has no vacancies.
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The nanny state in Florida outlawed boarding houses... It's a shame - a perfect way for the unemployed to create an income - and a nice starter - away from home the first time place - a safe transition. In today's world it would be a comfort for boomers unable to maintain a home. When I think about these places being outlawed it's one more reminder why I hate control-freak liberal elites.
More likely it would be filled with young careerists. My only trouble with it would be the hard partying on Saturday night.
A single room in the Chelsea Hotel is $200 a night. The Y has no vacancies.
Is the Chelsea even open? It was closed the last time I looked due to renovations. Hope its security is better than it has been in the past.
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