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New York City to introduce 300 square foot micro apartments
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 10, 2012 | Snejana Farberov

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.’

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: apartments; manhattan
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To: miss marmelstein

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


81 posted on 07/10/2012 9:29:35 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: miss marmelstein

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


82 posted on 07/10/2012 9:29:55 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: miss marmelstein

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


83 posted on 07/10/2012 9:30:20 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: C19fan
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
84 posted on 07/10/2012 9:44:16 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: C19fan
Somehow I am reminded of Bruce Willis' home in the film, "Fifth Element" as seen below;

And a New York full of these apartments...


85 posted on 07/10/2012 10:32:44 AM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
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To: C19fan
Senior living floor plan 300 sq ft:


86 posted on 07/10/2012 10:38:07 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

This is what one man did with 344 square feet.

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


87 posted on 07/10/2012 10:42:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: C19fan

Modular studio apartments for Japanese students




88 posted on 07/10/2012 10:53:18 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: bgill

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.


89 posted on 07/10/2012 11:13:52 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
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To: kabumpo

I wasn’t saying the jazz club was silly.

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


90 posted on 07/10/2012 11:48:38 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Smokin' Joe
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!

91 posted on 07/10/2012 12:22:03 PM PDT by Recon Dad (Gas & Petroleum Junkie)
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To: C19fan

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


92 posted on 07/11/2012 4:56:52 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: MasterGunner01
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.

93 posted on 07/11/2012 5:10:50 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: MasterGunner01
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.

94 posted on 07/11/2012 5:30:53 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
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.
95 posted on 07/11/2012 6:47:03 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: MasterGunner01

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.


96 posted on 07/11/2012 6:52:22 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: ThomasMore

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.


97 posted on 07/13/2012 8:05:45 AM PDT by CanuckYank
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