Rent a 77-square-foot apartment in Greenwich Village, NY, for $2,350/month? Take a look...

[True Dough]

And the SHARED bathroom in the hallway!

An empty third-floor apartment on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village keeps going viral on social media — and it could be yours for $2,350 a month.

That’s a lot less than the Manhattan median rent of around $4,100 a month and about half of the asking price for one-bedroom apartments in the exclusive Greenwich Village neighborhood. You’ll just have to get used to the size: less than 7 feet wide and 11 feet long. Knicks 6’8” all-star Julius Randle could stand in the center of the room, stretch out his arms and easily touch the walls on either side.

Then there’s the bathroom situation: There isn’t one.

Instead, you’ll have to visit the shared toilet and shower in the hallway. As for a kitchen? There isn’t really one of those either. There’s no oven or stove and you’ll have to make do with a mini-fridge under the counter.

https://gothamist.com/news/inside-the-77-sq-ft-greenwich-village-apartment-with-no-bathroom-for-2350month

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. F to the NO.

[Chainfire]

2. I have been in jail cells bigger than that.

[True Dough]

3. Passing through?

Or serving time?

[Chainfire]

6. At one time in my career, I worked on two new prisons under construction, and later

did some work at an active federal prison. I didn't even like being locked in, knowing that they would be letting me back out. So, no, the worst encounters I have ever had with the police were, "License and registration please." I have had two speeding tickets in my life, the last one 35 years or so ago.

[True Dough]

7. I've yet to be caught speeding

I certainly do it, generally not excessively though.

The only ticket of any kind I have ever received in my 30 years or so of driving was for an illegal left-hand turn. I slowed down in an unfamiliar neighborhood because I saw a few young teen boys gathered by the crosswalk and I wondered if they were going to dart out at some point. Consequently missed the "no left-hand turn" sign. There was a cop right there to nail me. I tried explaining to him. Even though I was courteous, he issued me a ticket.

I had to return to the same place the next day because it was a two-day first aid course. I took a different route. As I was coming down the street, I spotted that same cop sitting in the same place. His lights came on. I recognized the woman that he pulled over, who had made the illegal left-hand turn, as a fellow first aid course member.

When she made her way into the building, I approached her and said, "Too bad that police officer is such a jerk, huh?" She replied, "Oh no, he couldn't have been nicer. He let me off with a warning."

A cop treating a woman differently than a young male? Ya don't say. Still burns me, obviously. I'm telling the story 25 years later.



How many times have you watched Shawshank Redemption?

[highplainsdem]

4. Gives me claustrophobia just looking at it. That's about a quarter the

size of my bedroom, and maybe 1/7 the size of the studio apartment I had in the Murray Hill neighborhood in NYC in the 1970s. And one wall of that was mostly glass overlooking a courtyard with trees. Still felt too small, with one L-shaped room and the kitchen appliances along one wall near the door. At least there was a reasonably sized bathroom.

[txwhitedove]

5. If I were young career motivated, great, cause I always wanted

to live in NYC for at least a year. But now, my small 1,480 sf 3-bd, 2-bath home with fireplace and magical yard with birds and squirrels, at less than $800 mo all in, hell no.

[highplainsdem]

11. NYC has wonderful nightlife, restaurants, museums, theaters, etc., and lots of really

interesting, and fortunately usually very nice, people. And Central Park is lovely.

But if you're used to being able to see some distance in most directions, and you love trees and open spaces, it feels like being at the bottom of concrete and glass canyons. Which got unbearable for me after a while.

Years after I left NYC for the second time, I was talking to a business associate there who'd lived there less than two years (like me, she was from the Midwest), and she told me she was getting tired of all the concrete, tired of having to lean out a window in her apartment to see the nearest tree. I don't know how much longer she stayed.

[GreenWave]

8. Do they still have that TV show "You live in what?"

One such small place had pull downs for beds tables, etc.

[highplainsdem]

9. Now that you mention it, the tiny excuse for a kitchen in this

walk-in closet with pretensions looks like it might have been built into what had been a niche for a pull-down bed.

[Axelrods_Typewriter]

10. Hell to the no to the no-no-NO!

That room is a hell of a lot more expensive when you consider there's no real kitchen. That mans you gotta eat expensive takeout.

If I ever say I wanna live in a place like that call in a wellness check, because I'll need it BAD.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

12. is there a window on the other wall?

[wishstar]

14. Article says there is a window but didn't see a picture of view from window

Article says that its not certain of legality involving NY rent control of owner going up so much from $1300 rent that was charged in 2020.

[Skittles]

13. that much money and you cannot take a shower?

HELL no

[malthaussen]

15. And to think the Village was a cheap place to live circa 1960.

Pop cult would be very different if the Village had been then what it is like now. A friend of mine lived right on Charles Street on a secretary's salary in the very early '60s. What a lucky time to live there!

-- Mal