New York City to introduce 300 square foot micro apartments

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 10, 2012 | Snejana Farberov

[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.’

[kabumpo]

Yes, and nothing silly about it, if you like exceptional jazz and great food.

[kabumpo]

Yes, and nothing silly about it, if you like exceptional jazz and great food.

[kabumpo]

Yes, and nothing silly about it, if you like exceptional jazz and great food.

[hedgetrimmer]

Bloombergs plan is breathless, in its Marxism.

Why don't you want to let free enterprise solve the housing problem?

BTW, this tack has already been taken in communist run Hong Kong. You think it can't happen in America, but with a Marxist president and a Marxist mayor of New York, you betcha it will come to this:":


Yan Chi Keung eats takeaway outside his wire cage home -

Workforce housing

Different cities same communist concept

[SES1066]

Somehow I am reminded of Bruce Willis' home in the film, "Fifth Element" as seen below;

And a New York full of these apartments...

[central_va]

Senior living floor plan 300 sq ft:

[dfwgator]

This is what one man did with 344 square feet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

[COBOL2Java]

Modular studio apartments for Japanese students

[Arrowhead1952]

We got about one inch Sunday and a little shower yesterday. Wife heard that Bastrop had close to 10” during the night and the area is flooding as per NOAA.

[miss marmelstein]

I wasn’t saying the jazz club was silly.

I was saying that some of the remarks on this thread were silly.

[Recon Dad]

Smokin Joe, I hope you and both Thackney and ourselves be safe whether ND or Texas, God bless both.

I'm still praying for your own elephant!

[MasterGunner01]

Yeah, “micro” 300 sq. ft. quarters rented at MACRO rents. Why do people want to live in NYC?.

[wtc911]

Why do people want to live in NYC?.

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To see if they have what it takes to succeed in finance, law, advertising, music, publishing, fashion, theater, music or a dozen other industries against the best and brightest from around the world.

[C19fan]

I am not sure if you ever been to NYC, one is talking about Manhattan specifically, but one just walks out the door and feels the energy of the place and have access to world class cultural amenities. F. Scott Fitzgerald in the "Great Gatsby" captured this perfectly:

the city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.

[MasterGunner01]

Yes, I've been to NYC — once. I remember it before Rudy Giuliani cleaned up the dump. I remember Times Square, complete with pimps, girly boys, outright weirdos, hookers, peep shows, and other marvels of advanced civilization. I remember New Yorkers as rude, pushy, obnoxious, and self-absorbed people who thought the whole world outside of NYC was some foreign country. I never wanted to go back, ever.

[C19fan]

Can’t blame you for not enjoying your visit during the pre-Guilani “Dark Ages. I suppose growing up in the area, disclaimer in slower paced suburbs but with grandparents in Queens, I am use to the people and the zeitgeist of the area.

[CanuckYank]

Every time I see an aerial shot of the “projects” in NYC or Chicago, I fume at the undeniable fact that the libtards would have us ALL living in such concentrated, controllable squalor if they have their way.