This Apartment in Manhattan is $650 a Month

12 Comments on This Apartment in Manhattan is $650 a Month

1. You will own nothing and be happy

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2. I had cause to lease my spacious home out for a couple of years back in the late 1980s, and during that time I rented a studio in an historic building in the same neighborhood. In order to get into the building I had to start out with their only available apartment, 350 square feet. The kitchen and bath were enormous, but the bed took up most of the main living space and my room-sized oriental carpet had to be rolled up about halfway for the rest of it to lay flat on the floor. You basically had to walk across the bed in order to get into the bathroom.

   After a few short months I was able to move up to a 600 sf unit. Also a studio (they were all studios), the former tenant was an architect who built a very tall platform bed over the dining area, sort of like a freestanding gazebo.

   Small places like this are very tedious to clean because stuff occupies every nook and cranny.

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3. Where’s the hamster wheel?

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4. What’s the point? You can live on the street for free.

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5. Watching those videos made me feel slightly panicky; I would not do well living in a claustrophobia-inducing space. 😬 In that first video, the “bedroom” would feel as if I’m being viewed in an open casket. ⚰️ No, thank you!

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6. Smaller than my bathroom – seriously.
   Those certainly illuminate some strange facet of the NYC mentality.

   mortem tyrannis
   izlamo delenda est …

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7. And they will stand in line to get one.
   Been there, has to be one of the filthiest places on earth.
   I remember pigeon shit speed bumps under the traffic signals.
   Idiots of a feather, Flock together.

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8. Try living in a small compartment with 6 other guys stacked in racks 3 high on board a Navy ship and another 60 to 80 guys similarly ensconced where all the enlisted sailors slept. And to make matters worse our compartment was directly under the aft end of the Kitty Hawk just under the flight deck. After a while you get used to it and don’t even hear the jets landing and taking off just above your head. And submarines are even worse where the sailors have to share racks to sleep in for maybe to 6 to 8 hours a day when they’re not on duty.

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9. I’m so glad I grew up in the wide open countryside.

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10. Greatr

11. I have a giant size dog crate I will rent for just $200 a month.

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12. Are these folks forced to rent these digs?

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