Could you live in a 300-square-foot apartment?

Posted by Melissa on 7/10/12 at 9:55 am

New Yorkers are used to living in cramped surroundings, where space is a luxury afforded to only the wealthy.

And soon some Manhattanites will really feel the squeeze.

On Monday, Mayor Bloomberg launched a contest to develop micro units — which are closetlike flats are 275 to 300 square feet .

Yes, they are larger than a jail cell, but just! The micro units are big enough for a bathroom, kitchen and sleeping and dining room, though the Mayor admits that little entertaining will be had in these teeny-weeny apartments

Just as a FYI, Bloomberg’s 12,500-square-foot upper East Side townhouse is about 40 times as big as the micro units.

Our question to you is, could you live in one?

Melissa

Posted by Melissa

Melissa Myers has worked as an entertainment journalist for ten years, both in London and New York. She has done a daily gossip column on British newspaper the Daily Star where she interviewed everyone from Tom Cruise and George Clooney to Simon Cowell and Jennifer Lopez. She also worked as the News Director of In Touch in New York for the past six years, before launching her own site www.celebzter.com, which aims to provide smart content for smart women.

What do you think?

Am72walker

I already have! My first year of grad school I lived in Chicago in a teeny 250 sq foot studio. I hated the size but I loved the area! Would I do it again? Probably not, I really enjoy having friends over and its practically impossible within those tight quarters.

Could you live in a 300-square-foot apartment? - New York apartments are known for being small, but the proposed micro units take things to a whole other level

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