Sam Newman joked that he doesn't just throw take off your coat, he comes home at night - it will take half his apartment.
This way of life in his walkie studio a few blocks from Manhattan prosperous times square, the 280 square feet is hardly a government has also dispatched the size of the library, and a bed, a desk, TV support enough space in a wall and kitchen for other.
"I have developed this strange Stockholm syndrome, you agree with your captives," said the 31-year-old public relations. "When I go to other people's apartment, I thought, 'why they need more than one bedroom?" I'm really glad to be here have really let things accumulation, because... Here, I put them? "
The "big apple" is the legendary legion really, really small apartment residents. Many of them are proud of, it can even in narrow Spaces found humor. Now the city is to see how small is the New York of people are willing to go.
As the population and the rent is expected to continue to rise, New York city planners architect design method, make its tolerance - even comfortable - live in house of 350 square feet to 250 square feet of small challenge.
City, in the hope that the design must be based on the east side of the Manhattan, next year is mostly "micro unit apartment building." Our goal is to provide more of these small apartment, the whole city as a young single, cash poor and empty nester increasingly edge out the most expensive real estate market affordable choice.
If the pilot scheme is successful, the New York may eventually overthrow was founded in 1987, all new apartment for at least 400 square feet of requirements. The smaller the sitting room is a concept that have already been approved some cities. San Francisco recently approved for building 220 square feet of small apartment. Tokyo and Hong Kong to provide long-term small unit.
As a way to get new yorkers think small, New York city museum is open exhibition, on Wednesday, has a 325 square foot facility complete one room apartment, using the latest save space design. A sofa bed, fold, a soft pad Ottoman empire contains four nested chair, and a folding chair table hidden in the kitchen counter sliding, show a bar and a TV set in order.
Newman was surprised at how much more capacious, ventilation demonstration apartment feeling better than his own unit.
"If they fascinated by cable and pipe, I will be in tomorrow," Newman said, in a walk through the exhibition reporter. "In fact, where you can have a cocktail party, without the feel of it like a subway at rush hour."
12 feet, 24 feet long model for other facilities including 5 feet 9 inches 7 feet 9 inches, a refrigerator and separate freezer hidden in the counter of a lovely bathroom, as well as the holy grail of the New York apartment, a dishwasher. Murphy bed, favorite function, planing only handle gently touch.
"It was almost like it is how to design the space shuttle or ocean liner, al mining hitt said:" Donald, the curator of the exhibition.
In the west side of Manhattan, it does not need a long time, the 67 - year - old school cfo jack Sproule to visit one room apartment, he and his wife have. In the 290 square feet, there is enough space for bed, collapse to the wall, a small kitchen and bathroom, fully Sproule joke is the only place in their flight have a view.
But a marked feature of image window is the end of the unit.
"The view," Linda Sproule said, pointing to the large Central Park (Central Park), reservoir, big lawn and the distance of the metropolitan museum of art.
Let 's send small initiative that, balance - super small apartment, living in the world one of the great cities of the opportunity.
Its predecessor is a junction thought-provoking statistics. New York city, there are 82000, 2030 years is expected to increase of about 600000 people. The third city family only one person, the proportion of up to 46% of Manhattan. Residents face of the market value of the average rent is $2000 a month in one room and a bedroom apartment of 2700 yuan a month.
The new small apartment, according to the geographical position, is expected to the studio to price, but there are countries with the most advanced facilities.
Sproule said, life a little personal interests.
"This will help us focus on each other," he said. If not a lot of maintenance work, "this is amazing, we have to how much free time each other. It also allows us to explore New York."
Newman will not say, how much he pay his little studio, besides it is lower than market value, his neighbor.
Five years later life was claustrophobic, has been replaced by a very different fear.



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