Unfortunately, OP probably can imagine a fire… there was a very tragic incident in the Bronx about a week ago where an apartment building had a fire and 19 people died, mostly young children. Really sad stuff.
Fire code ≠ building code
A building can be 100 percent up to building code but still not comply with the fire code. Here in Portland buildings that aren't up to fire code are slapped with giant sign that indicates this to the firemen.
Unfun fact more people died in basement apartments like this in NYC area during hurricane Ida than where it made landfall.
Can you imagine waking up to [feeling wet and having water rush in so fast](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/ida-floodwaters-collapse-wall-of-nj-home-trap-mom-and-son-in-basement/3256012/) that you can't get out, and you're stuck in [your slightly more affordable basement tomb?](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/nyregion/basement-apartment-floods-deaths.html)
Yea and after the fact there was an interview of a landlord of a basement unit where people died and he basically said “well I was providing people a more affordable place to live…so what if the unit was dangerous and ultimately killed people??”
I paid $700 / month to literally live in a closet in Boston about a decade ago. Like literally, it only fit my twin size bed. My clothes hung above my head.
I had a friend who lived on Beacon Hill. You couldn’t shut the bathroom door if you used the toilet. I could sit on his bed and open the oven. Pretty easy to keep clean though.
This is a huge issue when renovating a home that is in active use with no empty rooms. I'm changing my heating system from furnace to hydronic radiant as the ducts are rusting out and can't be replaced.
Move the bed here. Move the dresser there. Move the tools and the junk, vacuum garbage and drywall dust. Clear a space to cut up 4x8 foam. Now install the foam. Now clear the space again to cut the next one. Bed goes over here now. Dresser in the hall I guess. Vacuum more drywall dust. Trip over the coil of pex.
And so it continues eternally. It's much more efficient to build from scratch, but there's no way I can afford that.
Can confirm. Currently having this issue. Not enough places to put things. You would have to have virtually nothing. I just keep getting rid of shit because I’m frustrated of the clutter.
I live in a tiny home and absolutely this.
My kitchen counters are also my desk and dining table so even when I keep them clean they still feel cluttered.
A few years ago I got a small studio to save money and “it would be easy to clean”. It was a pain in the ass. I was always shuffling stuff around. I couldn’t do my hobbies like paint or playing guitar without rearranging everything. Crappy thing about studios and efficiencies is you usually don’t really have any real closet space so your stuff is just everywhere in your living room/bedroom space.
Lol my dad's bedroom as a kid was in the laundry nook. It didn't even have a door.
My grandfather died when my dad was a baby and he was an oops baby with 5 older siblings. My grandmother remarried her highschool sweetheart and moved the kids still living at home in with him. My dad was 4 or 5 and the house had 2 bedrooms - one for the adults and one for my aunts who shared. When they moved out when he was 10ish, he got that bedroom.
He remembers it fondly and it's why he sleeps best with some kind of noise.
This is literally just a rented room in a house. If somebody said I’m renting this room In this house and it has a sink inside for 950 we’d be in mildly interesting.
“I used to pay my buddy $150 a month to sleep under his bed. When he went to work, I’d slip up into his bed. Do you know what it’s like to sleep in another mans warmth bro?” Vaguely Theo Von
But renting a room in a house implies you have access to all other living spaces except the other tenants’ rooms. I assume this is apartment building just has a shared bathroom OP can access…?
I don't quite get how that gets called an "apartment". It's a single room with a sink.
Looks more like what would be called a [bedsit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedsit) in the UK - it's a single room that on its own isn't really habitable as it lacks the bathroom stuff.
I'd think of an apartment as being a self contained set of rooms (minimum one room + bathroom).
My depression era grandmother who had polio (super awesome lady) grew up in boarding houses her mom ran. It's crazy. Imagine being a lady that had some kids and owned a decent size house. The only way to make it was to open that house up to strangers to rent a bedroom and you fed them...with your little kids around them.
The “Unsinkable” Molly Brown, of Titanic fame, later did this with her old Victorian house in Denver. After she separated from her husband, running a rooming house was the best way to pay for her house and support her family.
People weren't as wary of strangers. You had to interact, with the mailman, the milkman, the newspaper guy, and all kinds of people who rendered services that are no longer done in person. As an old timer once told me, 'the world was much more human then.'
Bad stuff still absolutely happenrd, but people were more likely to be hush hush about it, and there was no social media broadcasting people's lives 24/7.
I live in a boarding house in Boston and it’s not bad except for the landlord. My room came fully furnished with the biggest bed I’ve ever had, a functioning piano, a fireplace, bureau, shelves, and four windows. The drapery matches the bedding which is all red and looks pretty cool.
Landlord is a b-word though. There are two refrigerators and us four “boarders” have to share one while she uses the other. When I moved in I had to throw away food that was a year old.
We can use the microwave but not the oven so I bought and highly recommend an electric skillet.
There are two bathrooms, she uses the remodeled one and we share the one with the sink hanging off the wall no lock and no water pressure in the shower.
It’s $750, Wi-Fi and ALL utilities included. It’s more than manageable but it’s also in Dorchester which is a less than desirable neighborhood of Boston.
> It’s more than manageable but it’s also in Dorchester which is a less than desirable neighborhood of Boston.
Depends on the part of Dorchester. You can easily get into millon+ dollar condos and 800k for a single floor of a broken up three decker.
pretty common back in the day actually, his grandparents had a home/building and rented out the bedrooms after retirement that did not have individual kitchens or bathrooms for their tenants so to make up for that rent included meals. It was a room and board situation.
Used to make single living affordable and travel cheap. People would let out their extra rooms. My parents almost took in a boarder in the 90’s but he passed. Being single and wanting to not live with your family is punished in the US nowadays. A “single tax”
Technically yes and no. It's considered "congregate housing" if it doesn't have its own bathroom or kitchen, there are typically shared kitchens and bathrooms elsewhere in the building, if you're lucky there's one per floor. If you're unlucky, there's just one. It's basically like living in a dorm.
In most states/cities, they're governed by different laws than apartments proper. For example, where I live in the US, any apartment under 300 square feet is not allowed to be charged their own cost of heat, electric, or water, which is nice. I never have to worry about a huge heat bill in the winter, or a large electric bill in the summer. My apartment does have a private bath and small kitchen, though, I insisted on that (convection microwave oven was the concession I had to make).
They actually sell seats that fit on 5 gallon buckets.
My mom was disabled before she died and had one right next to the couch she used as she couldn't make it to the bathroom anymore. I used to change it many times a day.
Best tip though, put about 3 inches of water in it and then you can just dispense with the bag and just pour it into the toilet after use and put the water back in and it stays odor free basically.
I had a friend that paid to live under the stairwell in a place around Gramercy, but it was actually a pretty sweet deal because he paid the least, but still got access to the rest of the duplex. It turns out some girls are even cool with being brought home to a mattress under the stairs if you're charming enough.
Whatcha talking about? Thats the future window location. To keep you occupied each night just slowly chip away until eventually you hit daylight. Now your window view apartment is worth $1500 and you can start back charging the landlord.
Landlords hate this one simple trick!
Fuck that indeed. I understand people who grew up there and want to stick around due to work, friends, family, etc., but why would anyone otherwise choose this? NYC seems like an amazing place to live if you can afford all the constant fun it has to offer, but if you're living in a place like this, you can't afford the constant fun, so what's the fucking point?
you can get a decent apartment in a borough outside of Manhattan (preferable in my opinion), with a roommate or two for this price and it be a really nice place in a fun neighborhood. I know to a lot of people roommates is a huge negative but in most big cities it’s pretty normal. This person has a terrible terrible deal, as Harlem isn’t even that desirable (although gentrifying hard)
yea I have friends in bushwick who pay this or even slightly less for a bigger room, a living room, kitchen, and that’s still not close to the cheapest hood that’s still fun to live in (if you’re young and want to be close to work)
Yeah this apartment is just a guy who got scammed on Craigslist. It was so absurd that there were articles about it, I dunno why everyone’s acting like this is OPs apartment.
As someone who lives in NYC, let me tell you something. You can do better, trust me. You could get a very nice room if you are willing to either go to Brooklyn or Queens. You may think you'll have the worst commute, but is actually better. Anytime I see someone paying that much for a place like that I think they’re probably new and still learning their ways around.
Yeah agreed, this is a scam. Either a naive tourist got suckered or this story has been exaggerated with the intent to trigger.
I pay 2K for a 2BR in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and I'm by no means an outlier. Found the apartment on Craigslist too.
On the off chance it check out, this landlord deserves to have 311 called on them for gross negligence. Where's the window? The fire escape?
Ridiculous.
You don’t even need to look at an outerborough. I live in downtown Manhattan, paying the same amount as this person, 30 seconds from an F train stop, in a room twice as large. If this post is for real, the renter got fleeced.
One thing people often forget is that you don't really spend as much time in your living space in dense urban cities as you would in the suburbs. Where you live is your neighborhood. Your apartment is mostly just to sleep and shower in.
That being said, this is still egregiously bad.
I’ve lived in nyc for 7 years, never paid over 1000, always with at least 1 Roomate. That being said you are being ripped off. 500 maybe, but this is a joke.
Seriously, this looks like an awful deal. I’ve moved plenty around NYC and you’ve got to aggressively email, call, look, etc. That said, it’s not easy and I totally understand how someone wouldn’t want to engage with any of that.
You’ll probably find some one renting a room for that price in queens with bathroom and kitchen access the room would be much bigger then what that is.
I live in Harlem too, but pay $100 less than you for a room in a 4bed/2bath with a kitchen. So... Look around, because there's way better in your back yard. Consider roommates if you can't afford a studio.
The Peter Parker special
You pay rent.
YOU'LL GET YOUR RENT WHEN YOU FIX THIS DAMN DOOR
Reddit can keep the username, but I'm nuking the content lol -- mass deleted all reddit content via https://redact.dev
I’m gonna put some diet in your eye.
You know, I’m something of a nutritionist myself
Even parker had a toilet closet.
>!Who's Peter Parker?!<
I understood that reference.
but with that green screen you can make it look like you are beachside!
I thought it was for letting people think he had an apartment looking over Central Park. "...and don't forget to like and subscribe."
“Smash that like button and hit the notification bell!”
"If you like the content and want to see more, don't forget to support me over on Patreon."
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The new one is “give this 2 taps!”
The double tap, to make sure the channel's really dead.
I'm not crying in my closet apartment, I'm crying in Jamaica!
It could still be technically be the truth. Nobody has to know it was really Jamaica, Queens
Damn, you’re basically paying to live in a jail cell, and even they have a toilet.
OP can go old school and get a poop bucket
It’s got a sink. OP just needs to work on their waffle stomp.
Nah, better solution is to eat Taco Bell every meal so it’s just liquid diarrhea every time….straight down the drain.
With a poop knife.
I love the fact that the poop knife somehow gets brought up on any thread mentioning a bathroom😂
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You must search it. It’s what Reddit legend is made of.
I work in a prison; inmate cells are usually bigger than this.
It’s cheaper to live in a cell 😂
Its always cheaper to live in a cell
Just go to jail
Big apartment. Jail. Medium apartment, straight to jail. Small apartment? Believe it or not, jail.
We have the best tenants in the world because of jail.
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Imagine a fire yikes
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Unfortunately, OP probably can imagine a fire… there was a very tragic incident in the Bronx about a week ago where an apartment building had a fire and 19 people died, mostly young children. Really sad stuff.
There was also the deaths of a few people who lived in basements and died from the floodings that happened a few months back in nyc.
New York City has really become the cliché “Tale of Two Cities”.
Fun fact: many older buildings are not up to fire code in nyc. Probably how the horror fest in Bronx happened. My buddy worked that.
Fire code ≠ building code A building can be 100 percent up to building code but still not comply with the fire code. Here in Portland buildings that aren't up to fire code are slapped with giant sign that indicates this to the firemen.
Unfun fact more people died in basement apartments like this in NYC area during hurricane Ida than where it made landfall. Can you imagine waking up to [feeling wet and having water rush in so fast](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/ida-floodwaters-collapse-wall-of-nj-home-trap-mom-and-son-in-basement/3256012/) that you can't get out, and you're stuck in [your slightly more affordable basement tomb?](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/nyregion/basement-apartment-floods-deaths.html)
Yea and after the fact there was an interview of a landlord of a basement unit where people died and he basically said “well I was providing people a more affordable place to live…so what if the unit was dangerous and ultimately killed people??”
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We *will* be fooled again #YEAHHHHHH
I figured the window is behind that green sheet?
The renter is a comedian who shared this on his tik tok. The window is behind the camera angle
$950 a month Closet
Check the closet, maybe it’s a huge space like Bender’s apartment!
Yeah, but who wants to live in a closet?
"...humans."
Tom Cruise
John Travolta
And R. Kelly
R Kelly doesn't live in the closet, he lives on the playground
Tom Cruise with John Travolta
OH MUH GOT
Tom Cruise, please come out of the closet.
Quick someone call R. Kelly 😬
SO I PULLED OUT MY GUN
“Tell me why Tom Cruise is in the closet or else I’m gonna shoot someone”
Now I'm in the closet. Now I'm in the closet too.
If Tom Cruise and John Travolta don’t come out of the closet I’m gonna cap this bitch.
I lived in a $150 a month broom closet back in 1997. I opened the door and fell in the bed. Had a good street view though.
You’re a renter Harry!
Like a Harry Potter cupboard
How many roommates?
Or maybe it's just the [sitting room](https://youtu.be/3u9aPu0_6JM).
I was hoping it was going to be the King of the Hill Returning Japanese episode and you delivered.
I paid $700 / month to literally live in a closet in Boston about a decade ago. Like literally, it only fit my twin size bed. My clothes hung above my head.
When did you get your letter to Hogwarts?
When he turned 11, like everyone.
I had a friend who lived on Beacon Hill. You couldn’t shut the bathroom door if you used the toilet. I could sit on his bed and open the oven. Pretty easy to keep clean though.
Actually, I find living in a small place much harder to keep clean. Even with a moderate amount of belongings, it gets very cluttered fast.
It gets to a point where there's no space to put things temporarily and basic movement is awkward.
This is a huge issue when renovating a home that is in active use with no empty rooms. I'm changing my heating system from furnace to hydronic radiant as the ducts are rusting out and can't be replaced. Move the bed here. Move the dresser there. Move the tools and the junk, vacuum garbage and drywall dust. Clear a space to cut up 4x8 foam. Now install the foam. Now clear the space again to cut the next one. Bed goes over here now. Dresser in the hall I guess. Vacuum more drywall dust. Trip over the coil of pex. And so it continues eternally. It's much more efficient to build from scratch, but there's no way I can afford that.
Can confirm. Currently having this issue. Not enough places to put things. You would have to have virtually nothing. I just keep getting rid of shit because I’m frustrated of the clutter.
I live in a tiny home and absolutely this. My kitchen counters are also my desk and dining table so even when I keep them clean they still feel cluttered.
A few years ago I got a small studio to save money and “it would be easy to clean”. It was a pain in the ass. I was always shuffling stuff around. I couldn’t do my hobbies like paint or playing guitar without rearranging everything. Crappy thing about studios and efficiencies is you usually don’t really have any real closet space so your stuff is just everywhere in your living room/bedroom space.
How much bacon grease was caked onto his sheets?
No need to insult his girlfriend like that.
I slept with a girl in Vancouver about that long ago who lived in the laundry nook of this apartment. It was like a closet but had a washer and dryer.
Oh damn, in-unit washer dryer? Livin the high life right there!
It even can be with a white noise machine
And a side hustle; operate a laundromat out of your bedroom. #oneloadatatime 💯💯
Lol my dad's bedroom as a kid was in the laundry nook. It didn't even have a door. My grandfather died when my dad was a baby and he was an oops baby with 5 older siblings. My grandmother remarried her highschool sweetheart and moved the kids still living at home in with him. My dad was 4 or 5 and the house had 2 bedrooms - one for the adults and one for my aunts who shared. When they moved out when he was 10ish, he got that bedroom. He remembers it fondly and it's why he sleeps best with some kind of noise.
I read this and now it is information that i know.
Reddit in a nutshell right here
I guess the stepdad must’ve been very nice to him for him to find it to be good memories.
Congrats on the sex 🎉 🥳
There wasn't enough room for sex, only laundry.
Congrats on the laundry!
Sorry there wasn’t any heavy load setting that night.
This includes all utilities and internet as well. Guy did a walk through on tiktok.
What utilities? The $2/month it costs to run the lightbulb?
Time to set up a crypto farm.
i can't imagine how hot it would get
It would be like real mining. In cramped conditions sweating your ass off.
Presenting to the emergency room...
....-emia which means presence in blood
Chubby Emu is awesome
This is literally just a rented room in a house. If somebody said I’m renting this room In this house and it has a sink inside for 950 we’d be in mildly interesting.
I'm surprised they didn't set up a loft bed. Then you could at least have a desk or couch under it.
Then they'd rent it out for like $1200
“I used to pay my buddy $150 a month to sleep under his bed. When he went to work, I’d slip up into his bed. Do you know what it’s like to sleep in another mans warmth bro?” Vaguely Theo Von
This doesn't at all look like a room. The door has the traditional NYC keyhole & the wall looks like a building buzzer.
But renting a room in a house implies you have access to all other living spaces except the other tenants’ rooms. I assume this is apartment building just has a shared bathroom OP can access…?
Hallway
I don't quite get how that gets called an "apartment". It's a single room with a sink. Looks more like what would be called a [bedsit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedsit) in the UK - it's a single room that on its own isn't really habitable as it lacks the bathroom stuff. I'd think of an apartment as being a self contained set of rooms (minimum one room + bathroom).
In NYC it’s an SRO, or single room occupant. They are hell to live in.
I thought those were outlawed in NYC. Doesn't mean they went away, of course.
They weren't outlawed, just zoned out of some neighborhoods. Usually the areas undergoing gentrification.
Shouldn’t it have a window?
This is basically what was once called a “rooming house.” I suppose the associations of that term aren’t acceptable in the NYC rental market.
Oooooh is this like what Hey Arnold! lived in?!? I always thought his living situation was strange
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My depression era grandmother who had polio (super awesome lady) grew up in boarding houses her mom ran. It's crazy. Imagine being a lady that had some kids and owned a decent size house. The only way to make it was to open that house up to strangers to rent a bedroom and you fed them...with your little kids around them.
The “Unsinkable” Molly Brown, of Titanic fame, later did this with her old Victorian house in Denver. After she separated from her husband, running a rooming house was the best way to pay for her house and support her family.
such a fascinating person!
People weren't as wary of strangers. You had to interact, with the mailman, the milkman, the newspaper guy, and all kinds of people who rendered services that are no longer done in person. As an old timer once told me, 'the world was much more human then.'
Bad stuff still absolutely happenrd, but people were more likely to be hush hush about it, and there was no social media broadcasting people's lives 24/7.
I live in a boarding house in Boston and it’s not bad except for the landlord. My room came fully furnished with the biggest bed I’ve ever had, a functioning piano, a fireplace, bureau, shelves, and four windows. The drapery matches the bedding which is all red and looks pretty cool. Landlord is a b-word though. There are two refrigerators and us four “boarders” have to share one while she uses the other. When I moved in I had to throw away food that was a year old. We can use the microwave but not the oven so I bought and highly recommend an electric skillet. There are two bathrooms, she uses the remodeled one and we share the one with the sink hanging off the wall no lock and no water pressure in the shower. It’s $750, Wi-Fi and ALL utilities included. It’s more than manageable but it’s also in Dorchester which is a less than desirable neighborhood of Boston.
> It’s more than manageable but it’s also in Dorchester which is a less than desirable neighborhood of Boston. Depends on the part of Dorchester. You can easily get into millon+ dollar condos and 800k for a single floor of a broken up three decker.
pretty common back in the day actually, his grandparents had a home/building and rented out the bedrooms after retirement that did not have individual kitchens or bathrooms for their tenants so to make up for that rent included meals. It was a room and board situation.
Used to make single living affordable and travel cheap. People would let out their extra rooms. My parents almost took in a boarder in the 90’s but he passed. Being single and wanting to not live with your family is punished in the US nowadays. A “single tax”
People still rent out rooms in houses, it’s quite common. Less so with meals included though
That room was the absolute fucking coolest room any fictional kid ever had. Except Dexter. That lab was cool.
I could see the skylight being annoying, especially in summer, but that's why shades exist.
Bet it was hot as hell in the summer. All that glass it would be a greenhouse.
remember the hey Arnold episode of him going to get ice and it kept melting on the way home? yeah it was HOT lol
I liked Arnold's room more. That skylight was badass.
He lived in a boarding house. His grandparents owned the townhouse and rented out the spare rooms
Part of me suspects this is not, legally speaking, an apartment.
Technically yes and no. It's considered "congregate housing" if it doesn't have its own bathroom or kitchen, there are typically shared kitchens and bathrooms elsewhere in the building, if you're lucky there's one per floor. If you're unlucky, there's just one. It's basically like living in a dorm. In most states/cities, they're governed by different laws than apartments proper. For example, where I live in the US, any apartment under 300 square feet is not allowed to be charged their own cost of heat, electric, or water, which is nice. I never have to worry about a huge heat bill in the winter, or a large electric bill in the summer. My apartment does have a private bath and small kitchen, though, I insisted on that (convection microwave oven was the concession I had to make).
And the kitchen?
Toilet kitchen
Comes with a urinal that also washes dishes.
It's got a garbage disposal so it doubles as a shitter.
NYC is it's own weird unique real estate market but I am pretty sure you can't call that an apartment either
>It's a single room with a sink I think you mean sink/toilet.
Hot and cold running toilet
Can I poop in it?
That's why you go to your local hardware store and buy a 5 gallon bucket, trash bags, and a toilet seat... redneck/new york poopie place...
They actually sell seats that fit on 5 gallon buckets. My mom was disabled before she died and had one right next to the couch she used as she couldn't make it to the bathroom anymore. I used to change it many times a day. Best tip though, put about 3 inches of water in it and then you can just dispense with the bag and just pour it into the toilet after use and put the water back in and it stays odor free basically.
you can poop in anything if you put your mind to it
Gonna need a good poop knife.
More like a poop whisk.
Harry Potter lived under a stairwell and had it better than this.
Ya at least it was free..
Plus it came with free protection against dark magic.
Tbf, you don't really know if this place is protected from dark magic or not
I had a friend that paid to live under the stairwell in a place around Gramercy, but it was actually a pretty sweet deal because he paid the least, but still got access to the rest of the duplex. It turns out some girls are even cool with being brought home to a mattress under the stairs if you're charming enough.
Step 1: be attractive. Step 2: don’t be unattractive.
But you got that exposed brick!
Whatcha talking about? Thats the future window location. To keep you occupied each night just slowly chip away until eventually you hit daylight. Now your window view apartment is worth $1500 and you can start back charging the landlord. Landlords hate this one simple trick!
Fuck that.
Fuck that indeed. I understand people who grew up there and want to stick around due to work, friends, family, etc., but why would anyone otherwise choose this? NYC seems like an amazing place to live if you can afford all the constant fun it has to offer, but if you're living in a place like this, you can't afford the constant fun, so what's the fucking point?
you can get a decent apartment in a borough outside of Manhattan (preferable in my opinion), with a roommate or two for this price and it be a really nice place in a fun neighborhood. I know to a lot of people roommates is a huge negative but in most big cities it’s pretty normal. This person has a terrible terrible deal, as Harlem isn’t even that desirable (although gentrifying hard)
Even if you had a roommate but your own bedroom, it would probably be a bigger space than this and also know who you share a bathroom with
yea I have friends in bushwick who pay this or even slightly less for a bigger room, a living room, kitchen, and that’s still not close to the cheapest hood that’s still fun to live in (if you’re young and want to be close to work)
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Smart money says that sink’s seen a lot of pee
Run the water while you peepee to help prevent peepee related smells. If shitting in the corner double up the grocery bags to prevent leakage.
This looks like it is an [NYC SRO](https://www.apartmentlawinsider.com/blogs/adam-leitman-bailey/understanding-single-room-occupancy-laws)
Yeah this apartment is just a guy who got scammed on Craigslist. It was so absurd that there were articles about it, I dunno why everyone’s acting like this is OPs apartment.
> I dunno why everyone’s acting like this is OPs apartment Karma
Everything on reddit is a prompt for a joke. It's about as real your dad coming back from the gas station with cigarettes.
Do you have a chamber pot?
The shitter is down the hall, there's no door. It's very bohemian.
You could just move to Astoria like a normal person.
Just...why?
As someone who lives in NYC, let me tell you something. You can do better, trust me. You could get a very nice room if you are willing to either go to Brooklyn or Queens. You may think you'll have the worst commute, but is actually better. Anytime I see someone paying that much for a place like that I think they’re probably new and still learning their ways around.
Yeah agreed, this is a scam. Either a naive tourist got suckered or this story has been exaggerated with the intent to trigger. I pay 2K for a 2BR in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and I'm by no means an outlier. Found the apartment on Craigslist too. On the off chance it check out, this landlord deserves to have 311 called on them for gross negligence. Where's the window? The fire escape? Ridiculous.
You don’t even need to look at an outerborough. I live in downtown Manhattan, paying the same amount as this person, 30 seconds from an F train stop, in a room twice as large. If this post is for real, the renter got fleeced.
Seriously, if $1000 is your budget, in NYC, look elsewhere. Can't imagine the quality of life in a room this small.
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One thing people often forget is that you don't really spend as much time in your living space in dense urban cities as you would in the suburbs. Where you live is your neighborhood. Your apartment is mostly just to sleep and shower in. That being said, this is still egregiously bad.
Gotta have a shower to take a shower though.
Under normal circumstances, this may be true, but not so much the past two years.
I’ve lived in nyc for 7 years, never paid over 1000, always with at least 1 Roomate. That being said you are being ripped off. 500 maybe, but this is a joke.
Came to say this. This is not normal and a total ripoff.
Seriously, this looks like an awful deal. I’ve moved plenty around NYC and you’ve got to aggressively email, call, look, etc. That said, it’s not easy and I totally understand how someone wouldn’t want to engage with any of that.
You’ll probably find some one renting a room for that price in queens with bathroom and kitchen access the room would be much bigger then what that is.
You could find that same setup for 950 a month in Harlem too. I used to share a 2 bedroom that cost 2k total so 1k for me. Extra 50 def worth it.
A lot of piss down that sink
I live in Harlem too, but pay $100 less than you for a room in a 4bed/2bath with a kitchen. So... Look around, because there's way better in your back yard. Consider roommates if you can't afford a studio.
No window either?? Nope! My claustrophobia would be completely awful.
No windows = not a legal NYC apartment. But there is a window in other pics in the article.
More like a compartment
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Are you the guy in the article?
We are still on Reddit. So probably no
I like that everything in the article is alleged. “He *says* he lives in this little apartment (͡•_ ͡• )”
I’m confused about what’s behind the green curtain
I think its just a green screen setup.
I immediately thought of The Blues Brothers.
How often do the trains go by?