They're all in Flushing Meadows
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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I agree with you. This idea sucks and is just another stepping stone towards a THX1138/Logan’s Run/Clockwork Orange dystopian society.
So if young people starting out are happy with these, they should be denied them and forced to live in larger, more expensive apartments? Like someone else said, young people starting out will be at work, out on the town, or sleeping. What use would they need for a gargantuan, more expensive apartment?
The two things that stuck in my mind were:
1.) A galley kitchen in an expensive unit. The Trump lackey said the people that could afford the unit wouldn't need a "real kitchen" because they would be eating out most of the time, (hitting all the trendy restaurants...)
2.) The RE taxes at the time were $20K.
That scene always gave me the creeps. Self important communist b!tch. Her offspring are over at DU,
Uh...you have to have bathrooms in New York City. You guys gotta get out more. Sheesh...
They're all in Flushing Meadows
Well, we don’t have a basement here. We live on a limestone shelf that is harder than concrete and it would take blasting to build one.
I remember when we visited the troops in Bosnia and the 8x8x40 containers were converted into living quarters that had two people per container.
Flushing is a corruption of a Dutch word - actually of a city in Holland. Since you guys are so ignorant, let me inform you that New York was settled by the Dutch and many of its city names are from the Dutch.
I found this “sense of humor” here on the floor, is this yours?
Sorry, I don’t get Texas jokes. I prefer New York humor.
God has been doing His part, as always, Praise Him!
I have been busy on wellsite the past three weeks, and I'm getting ready to wrap another job up and turn it over to the production folks and engineers.
The Bakken is doing well, although lower oil prices have some companies' drilling programs slowing a little from what I hear.
I hope (and pray) your health issues have been or are being resolved favorably.
Yes, it has been closed. I was merely pointing out the cluelessness of the suggestion. BTW, living over on Lexington, do you ever go to Jazz Standard?
The Soviet pilot who stole the MIG-25 and flew it to Japan wrote a book, "MIG Pilot."
In that book he described how the Soviet government would build apartments using green wood for the structures. As the wood dried out it would warp and start to tear the buildings apart.
I doubt young hip up and coming New Yorkers won't go for anything less than a full walk-in closet with plenty of space for shoes and man purses. Of course, half their clothes would be out at the cleaners so that'd cut down on needed space but people now days seem to have to have big closets.
If there were a lot of built in storage areas and it was quality construction like the cabin of a sailboat it wouldn’t have to be awful, for a single person. Cost per square foot would be very high for construction alone, though, even without it being in Manhattan.
The Chelsea Hotel no longer rents out rooms monthly or yearly?
As far back as 2008 I read about TCH having tenants who have been living there since the beginning of time. Maybe they finally got evicted?
One of those tenants bought a condemned hotel in my town.
If there was a market need then a private development company would have already built them rather than spending my tax dollars.
taxes are paid whether up front or burined within rent payments. my point is that each time you buy a house, you don’t start the mortgate clock ticking from the beginning again, but your closing fees, inspection costs (and these add up)get paid again.
let’s assume they total ten grand. you buy a house, you pay ten grand in other costs. if you buy the right house in the beginning, there’s no need to spend that money again, BUT if you buy a house that you know isn’t going to last (remember starter houses?), then you will have to buy another house...another ten grand. and if you buy another house, another ten grand.
nobody thinks about those costs...except those who benefit from them
Yeah, I’d love one of those as a tornado shelter but between the granite and water table it ain’t happening.
Did you get some rain? My guage is broken so can’t tell how much we’ve had but it was too muddy to till this morning. Grabbed a handful of cherry tomatoes when I came in and there’s a couple cukes about ready.
I’m a landlord with units in Queens. I specialize in studios with about 420 SF each. I get $1200/mo for them - each. I could get more but I have good tenants in them now and that’s worth discounting by ten or fifteen percent.
No - that’s not the jazz club located within Blue Smoke restaurant, is it?
(I know: a lot of silliness on this thread!)
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