Micro Apartments Are Coming To Manhattan
New York City: You are looking Uptown, East side; click to enlarge. Here in New York City you grow accustomed to seeing small apartments and weird configurations when you enter other people's homes (not to mention an occasional " only in New York" fetish, it is best to overlook. Ooh , that's an entirely different discussion). But now Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a plan for a residential building in Kips Bay [at 335 East 27 th Street, near First Avenue] to develop teeny-tiny, cubical apartments, about half the size of a subway car. According to local newspapers, he will have to suspend zoning laws in order to build the 80 proposed micro units, which are to be even smaller than what developers can now build. Currently, apartments must be 400 square feet or larger. The proposed micro units will measure between 275 and 300 square feet. The flats will only be 10-by-30 feet. Bloomberg says it's the wave of the future. Presently,...