Posted on 07/12/2012 11:31:02 AM PDT by goldstategop
Bloomberg is currently accepting proposals for the apartments, which will be located on E 27th Street and First Avenue in Kips Bay. The apartments would help young professionals find appropriate housing in the city while they start their careers.
The craziest thing about these 300-square-foot apartments (which are about the size of half a subway car) is that they will cost around $2,000 a month to rent.
Under current zoning laws, all apartments must be at least 400 square feet, but Bloomberg said he plans to change the zoning laws to make the new micro-units legal.
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Overnight stays by rich owners.
Places to store dope.
I lived in a studio apt in Chicago as a young man.
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So, was it a F**k pad, a dope hole or were you a rich kid with a pied a terre?
My bet is you were just getting started, didn't want to stay home and weren't making enough yet to get something bigger.....you know....like the NYers who would rent these places.
You guys realize the house you could get for that much down here in Ga? Veritable mansion.
The landlords should love this idea, a few 2x4’s and dry wall and rents will double and triple.
Why not just call them what they are - Citizen Cells.
Bloomberg’s Citizen Cells.
Sure I really be Mike needs all that space HE lives in just because he’s married. You want to talk about being detached from the average person, I give you Bloomberg the Idiot.
These Hamster Hotels generally work fine in Japan because in Japan, they are used to being quiet and respectful of others.
You want to try this in NYC and see how well they work?
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I am a landlord (among other things). I own a number of 420 sf studio apts in good neighborhoods in Queens. I get $1200/mo for each. I could get up to $1600/mo but my tenants are there long term and pay on time so I keep them cheap.
You have to understand that this is Manhattan. The lifestyle is completely different than any place else in America. Apartments are for sleeping and cleaning up. The rest of life is lived outside of the home, in the city. If I could ever talk my wife into it, I would love to live there.
You people are something. Everything’s a conspiracy by Bloomberg. Well, that was true in every prior case, actually. But not here. In this case, it’s simple supply and demand and free market. New York City is not fly-over country. People there will live out there lives having sex and being single (at least according the TV show). So they don’t need big places - so why artificially limit small places.
This is ACTUALLY the first time I’ve seen Bloomberg do anything that resembles free-market thinking (i.e., let builders build what people want), so give him a break.
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