Utility closet going for $1200 a month in Manhattan

It's better than that Japanese apartment with the detaching glass walls. You can meet your neighbors standing in line for the bathroom.

The Carrie Bradshaw experience is priceless !

But New York City is the center of the entire world.

Who wouldn't give their left nut to live there?

Is this guy perhaps in Soviet Russia?

[quote] Utility closet going for $1200 a month in Manhattan

The "illegal migrants" get their nice big government subsidized room at the Ritz for free so it doesn't sting that much. Then there is the free laundry , free food, free healthcare, free school, free phone, free transport, and the monthly reloaded debit cards cash. Maybe the people who balk at the $1200 closet should just work harder so they can afford what I a poor refugee can live on.

That looks like a space someone case use as an art studio not a place to live.

NY is nuts.

You realize that other apartments are available? It seems ridiculous but think of the convenience and no car expense.

That's the perfect apt for someone in a relationship/divorce who needs their own place a few days a month or who travels constantly, or lives in CT and works 16 hrs a day, or needs a writing space. I'd rather live there than in at least 100 different shitty places I've visited on business.

"No one can afford to live in NY yet somehow 8 million people do"- Fran Lebowitz

In fact, one out of every 28 people in the country lives in NYC, more than the population of 8 shitty flyover states put together.

There’s not even a fucking sink? You have to go to the shared bathroom where all your floor mates shit in order to get a drink of water?

You’re not wrong, r3. I’d rather live in a closet in Manhattan than a four bedroom house in Pittsburgh.

A lot of people agree with me. Hence the rents. Catching on yet?

You live in flyover. Get over it, Defacto.

R11 isn't nearly as smart as she seems to think she is.

I wanted the cute guy to disrobe and take a shower for us. We're all curious to know the water pressure, as well as how hot the water gets...not to mention if he's packing or not. (I think he is).

A shared bathroom with your neighbors? FUCK NO.

That's not an apartment that's a storage unit.

No one ever accused New Yorkers of being bright.

[quote]I’d rather live in a closet in Manhattan than a four bedroom house in Pittsburgh.

Me too!

It’s an old SRO. There used to be dozens in NYC. Like a dorm room with shared bathrooms and usually communal kitchens, dining and lounge areas.

You just don't understand the enormous amount of pressure realtors are under to get to billionaire status! You. Don't.Get. It.

R6 Only if they paint miniatures.

r12 This r11 is too dumb to realize you can NetJets in and out of New York faster than a car commute and live out in the boonies in a 10 or 20 thousand square foot house for a fraction of what that space costs on Manhattan. There are no shortage of people who have realized this.

How much would a 20,000 sq ft house or apt cost in Manhattan, considering THIS is a 20,000 ft house?

Well, 123 e 35th has been reduced to $24,750,000 on 11,638 sq ft. It was originally listed for, I think, $35M. Carlos Slim was flogging his 20k place for $80M.

R11 isn’t so truly desperate he has to WW his own post five times using his vpn, super pathetic Defacto at r12 🤷🏻‍♂️

Defacto at r21, don’t you have paint to watch dry? You’re talking to a New Yorker who lives in an affluent suburb. But for decades I lived in Manhattan and the higher rents are totally worth it.

Also love the sheer stupidity of complaining about New York rents, only to claim commuting in on a private jet is the solution! 🤡

Here's a funny commuting story: A guy was selling individual seats, daily roundtrips on 2 of his private jets from a neighborhood airport into town. 3 roundtrips per plane M-F. He was booking 100% daily, the same people commuting to their jobs this way. It lasted a number of years until the FAA shut him down for running an unlicensed airline. I don't think he even got a fine.

r25 You don't know many rich people, do you?

Defacto at r27 is still clueless. Rich people are not the ones complaining about high NYC rents, pullet-snouted moron. Choose an argument and stick with it.

Above poster is right - there have always been places like this with shared toilets in the hallway - particularly in the East Village. Although some asshole landlord divided up this room into two. This is a manufactured small apartment - they did not exist before in this size.

Also, places with shared bathroom toilets always had sinks and kitchen facilities in their apartments.

This is gouging - but the set up is not heard of. Although I had a renovated small apt in Paris with its own bathroom, other apartments in my building shared an unheated toilet in the hallway.

r28 - It has nothing to do about the price, it's all about style of living. I see I've really rattled some old upper middle-class queen.

That apartment will be rented out to a Japanese student (or intern), no doubt. They enjoy very small spaces, and make it work (think of the Pod Hotels opening everywhere , especially designed for Japanese tourists). There's a market for these.

Tiny

This thread is literally about price — and it’s your thread Defacto so you should, well, know that.

What the thread has become is a highly amusing display of what happens when a little gremlin of a rightwing gay in a grubby little flyover city gets schooled on the life in ny he’s trying to run down (as usual), then tries to pretend to be an affluent New Yorker in a rather tragic attempt to change the subject.

It’s a studio for an artist if the light is good. Or a work space for a massage therapist. Or something else work related. That’s about it.

The main issue is the lack of water and a SINGLE toilet. If you want to have a dorm-like housing, fine. But there better be more than 1 toilet for multiple apartments.

I presume they have keys to the toilets on the other floors? I would hope to god that they do.

Also - imagine if everyone was trying to get ready for work between 7 and 8 am. And - no offense - but women just take longer in the bathroom than men in getting ready.

The waiting would drive me insane.

r33 - I'm not defacto, you old fucking idiot. And I used to live in Mayfair London. NYC is just trashy in comparison, and has been for fifty years, at least.

[quote] a little gremlin of a rightwing gay in a grubby little flyover city

Because NYC isn't grubby at all.

I don't live in or anywhere near NYC so it's amusing to me that people are seriously talking about this tiny space as a possible artist's studio or a place where a massage therapist could do business.

See this person?

Autism.

This is the type of housing people used to be able to afford with SSI income to avoid being homeless. My city sold all of the downtown SROs to big hotel chains and turned the residents out onto the streets.

What does SRO stand for, other than Standing Room Only?

[quote] That apartment will be rented out to a Japanese student (or intern), no doubt. They enjoy very small spaces, and make it work (think of the Pod Hotels opening everywhere , especially designed for Japanese tourists). There's a market for these.

I don't know if people in Japan *enjoy* very small spaces. It's just a fact of life with expensive real estate (e.g., Tokyo).

Also, cities in Japan tend to be safer than U.S. cities. I'm not sure a person from Japan would be attracted to a place like the one at OP.

Check out this movie, Sunshine Hotel, about an NYC flop house.

I admit that the bathroom (at OP) did look clean and so did the room.

If you are an early 20 something who wants an affordable apartment in Manhattan you would be okay with this. Having a shared bathroom in the hall is what a lot of college dorms are like.

Everyone knows you could get more for your money in Kansas, but people are willing to make sacrifices to live in NY.

People should not live like rats in a burrow, whether they choose to or not, COVID and other diseases spread like wildfire when people pack in like that.

Only idiots live in NY.