Apartment sizes in New York are usually small, but this one could be the smallest in all of Manhattan.
Omer Labock, a real estate agent, showed a video on social media showing a small ‘apartment’ of about 110 square feet or 11 square meters.
The video shows a hallway-like space with a window.
The apartment, of course, does not have a kitchen, dining room or living room, it is just a bedroom with a wooden closet.
“This has to be the smallest apartment in Manhattan,” Labock explains in the video.
“This is crazy, but it is also the cheapest apartment, it is basically a bedroom,” he adds in the video that went viral.
The shared bathroom is located outside the apartment, a few meters away in a hallway.
The rental price is $1,200 per month.
Average rent rises in Manhattan
This tiny space shows how difficult and expensive it can be to find an apartment in Manhattan.
According to a study by the MNS Real State site, the average income in this county in January 2024 was $4,662.
A studio apartment like this one has an average rent of about $2,573 in areas like East Village and up to $5,000 in SoHo.
Other quirky apartments in New York:
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Twenty-seven-year-old Sampson Dahl converted an 800-square-foot laundromat into an extravagance-saturated home for which he pays $1,850 a month. See his full story here.
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Sampson Dahl, a set designer for video and photo productions, moved into a laundry building and transformed it into a home and studio.
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Caleb Simpson, an influencer who specializes in documenting how New Yorkers live, says that this apartment is “the strangest one he has seen in NYC.”
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But at the same time he recognizes that it has so many strange things that “it is the most fun place I have been to in New York.” And that is, he has documented quite original homes.
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Dahl, who is 27 years old, pays $1,850 to live here. And she says that, although she would like to move, she would have to have “a minimum, $5,000” to be able to rent another studio home. Or live in a tiny apartment, like titktoker Alex Verhaeg, who pays less but lives in a 95-foot space.
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The laundry room has not been in operation since before he moved in, in March 2019, but he liked the 800-square-foot space because it gives him “freedom,” he says.
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He says he hasn’t paid for almost all the furniture he has, and all the items, including this musical organ (he also has a piano), which he got for free, from Amazon.
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His kitchen is equipped with everything he needs, and unlike that of actor Eli Young, who has a minibar in his ambulance apartment, Dahl prefers tea, a drink that he says he consumes by the ton.
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While other compact apartments in NYC do not have a bathroom inside, like designer Alaina Randazzo’s, Dahl’s not only has its own bathroom… it also has many mirrors and even a window between the toilet and the shower.
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Among the ‘donations’ he has received is a community refrigerator. Right at the entrance of the apartment. Anyone who passes by can put or take clothes from there.
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Also, on the sidewalk, in front of the laundromat where he lives, he incorporated a swing, and a table and two chairs, for whoever passes by, chats, or has fun. He says he likes to foster a community atmosphere in his neighborhood.
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The bed is one of the few things he has paid for. It cost him $25, and to make it more original, not only is it almost close to the ceiling, she also left him the original laundromat sign, to sleep next to it.
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At the foot of the bed, and almost on the ceiling, he has an “aerial” closet, in which he says there is almost no room for clothes. Very different, by the way, from the luxury closets of some Manhattan apartments.
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Although he lives in an old laundry, he did not leave a single clothes dryer inside his house, so after washing it he hangs it on loops that cross his home.
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He also distributes the clothes he has washed by hanging them on other of the strange pieces that decorate his home.
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The loops where he hangs his clothes also help him overcome leisure and sometimes he does pirouettes on them.
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Similar to the influencer Tory Deluhery, who lives inside a van and has her studio inside, Dah has her painting studio in her house-laundry, because she likes art.
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Dahl confesses that his next step is to stop living in the laundry and turn it into a community art studio.
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