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See How New Yorkers Manage to ‘Live Large’ in These Four 350-SqFt (or Less) Apartments

Jan. 30, 2013 6:25pm

New Yorkers have long been making the most of tiny spaces — well before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s initiative to pilot a housing project of apartments between 250 and 370 square feet.

A series on the YouTube channel SPACEStv honed in on four such residents who showed off their small but functional and eclectic digs.

  • Suzi West: West lives in a 200-square-foot apartment in Brooklyn. What she doesn’t have inside, she makes up for outside — her backyard is larger than her one-room flat.
Tour Four New York City Apartments Under 350 Square Feet

(Photo: SpacesTV/Flickr)

Check out the space-saving efficiencies she’s employed to help her live comfortably in her space:

  • Michelle James: Living in L.A., James had 1,500 square feet. Now in NYC’s West Village, she only has 311 square feet to her name.  But it’s an amount of space she feels she can actually keep up with. 
Tour Four New York City Apartments Under 350 Square Feet

(Photo: SpacesTV/Flickr)

See how James turns things like a fancy dress and her shoes into home decor:

  • Michelle Konar: Konar not only lives in her 300-square-foot apartment, she runs her own Etsy shop out of it. She also has an outdoor space –rare for a studio in the city. 
Tour Four New York City Apartments Under 350 Square Feet

(Photo: SpacesTV/Flickr)

Watch how she makes her business and lifestyle work within the space:

  • J Michael Moore: Moore might have an advantage for small spaces given that he’s an interior designer. He makes the most of his 225-square-foot apartment’s high ceilings with a custom-built sleeping loft (above his kitchen) and by keeping everything movable. Moore purposely kept patterns out of his space, focusing on block colors instead. 
Tour Four New York City Apartments Under 350 Square Feet

(Photo: J. Michael Moore/SPACEStv)

Check out the fiery orange-red he pained his apartment:

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  • ThomasUSA
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:14pm

    I took this same idea to the extreme and I now live in a coffin… It has a solar cell covered lid that powers the battery system. I heat it with an electric blanket and don’t need a kitchen because I just hang an IV from the top of the lid.. and when I need to go to the bathroom I just pop it open and pee on the curb with the rest of the “residents” on the street . And when I die, they just have to close the lid and call for garbage pick up!

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  • Bernard Gui
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:12pm

    When I was a kid, we called those “efficiency apartments.” They were tiny back then, too. When I visited Poland in 1993, a family we knew there (mom, dad, 2 kids) lived in a flat this size. It was more than cozy. Vampires live in coffins.

    What difference does it make?

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  • NoMoMrNiceGuy
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:00pm

    Can you say AGENDA 21 !

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    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:52am

      Yes, people living in small apartments to save on cost of living – AGENDA 21 – OOOOOOH SPOOOOOKY, so very spooky. So dangerous, in fact, it’s so dangerous that you should probably go build a big, giant house just to counteract the danger of it all.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:21pm

      I already have, Robbie.

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      Chuck Stein  
  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:51pm

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg can call his housing project “Say Free Mini pads”.

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  • NDPINDNT
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:47pm

    That’s not living, it’s existing!

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    • GringoBushPilot
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:34am

      Well, since half the human race live on refuse dumps and in shanty towns, maybe the these New York minis aren’t so bad.

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  • ABRAXUS
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:45pm

    Plenty of room for four. Make sure that you have permission of the block captain before you rearange the furnature. All praise to the party. And the chairman is god.

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  • Chunkyrhyno
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:43pm

    it seemed like they are all loners,,,,,,,,,,and here in the U.S.A., we dont call apartments “flats”!!!!

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:02pm

      When your working all the time to pay the taxes you only need a cot to lie your head on.

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  • hatchetjob
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:36pm

    Did anyone else read that J. Michael Moore “pained” his apartment? There may be more here than meets the eye, just sayin’.

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  • hkyplayer
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:36pm

    Who would want to live like that? This is not worth living in NY if you live like a homeless person! Move!
    Breath! feel the sun! hear the birds! Stretch!

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:04pm

      NY keeps you burdened with taxes so you can’t afford to move.

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    • 702TruthSeeker
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:14pm

      the smell of garbage produced by millions of people laying on the sidewalks in leaky bags as you walk by can’t be beat. when it’s picked up, the garbage trucks drive around with “garbage water” pouring out the back all over the streets. the rats.. cockroaches.. new york is a filthy ****hole

      cost of living makes you a slave, taxes are ridiculous, laws are insane, crime is through the roof when compared to less dense parts of the country. it’s true that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, but a lot of people get hung up in the rat race and never make it out

      left 7 years ago and never looked back!

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  • Stelex
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:29pm

    This is the conditioning of the the UN. Just keep moving the walls in and they will acclimate to it. Agenda 21 is real, is active and is happening. Pitty the folk who accept the word of the government.
    On a lighter note…..it could be worse.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

    Enjoy

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  • vandy
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:26pm

    we’ll all be living like this with big brother watching our every move if Agenda 21 is fully implemented.

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  • Todd Decker
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:20pm

    When I was stationed in Japan in 1989, the Air Force had modular furniture that could be configured in any way imaginable with shelves, drawer modules, desk modules (looked like a large wooden box, but the door opened downward to become the desk), and cabinet modules. The same polls that held the shelves held the modules. My roommate and I filled our tiny dorm room with these units so that a section divided his side from mine. We had them all along nearly every wall and folks would come by in amazement at what we’d done as it gave us a place for the TV, VCRs, stereo, VHS tapes, our clothes, books, CDs, audio tapes, etc.

    To conserve even more space, we both had these covered, foam armchairs we called futons that folded out to be like a thick, twin-sized mattress on the floor. Comfy chairs in the day, comfy “beds” at night.

    Despite how awesome it was, we both longed to have a proper place to live with plenty of space to breath. That’s why these pieces on tiny living spaces make me want to puke. Been there, done that.

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  • carhouse
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:03pm

    Anybody that lived in a college dorm has done this already.. Maybe not as costly but just as creative.
    plis a roommate and maybe one girlfriend,

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    • Stelex
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:31pm

      Well if things keep going as is, and we don’t stop it. You’ll get to enjoy those digs again. Government…….whats not to love????

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      Stelex  
  • The-Monk
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:03pm

    There are a lot of politicians in Wash,DC. that deserve an even smaller living quarters…

    Complete with bars also… and not the libations type.

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  • SCREW-WINDOWS
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:02pm

    Those are spacious to me I can’t pass gas without poppin the eardrums.

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    SCREW-WINDOWS  
  • checkingbothsides
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:53pm

    I could live in one of those if it was just me. I once had a studio apartment that wasn’t much bigger, and I made do just fine. What is the cost of something like that in NYC?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:04pm

      3,000 a month and idiots are lining up to have a nanny tell them how to live. Oh, and you have to have a Prius with all the hot button stickers. Lisps are optional.

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    • mbck1491
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:54pm

      Wow! That’s nuts, $3,000 for a shoe box. I’ll take my sprawling (comparatively speaking) 2500 square foot home with acreage out in the country for a mortgage payment just about half that. You couldn’t pay me to live in NYC, or any city for that matter.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:48pm

    My bathroom is bigger! New York city is a sewer and needs to be bulldozed.

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  • jackact
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:46pm

    Appreciate the pun but how can any fool be ‘living large’ when they pay approx $31.00 a square foot a month for a 350 square foot ‘closet’ that they don’t even own?
    Bloomberg, the genius, strikes again.
    New Yorkers are SO lucky……
    :(

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  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:42pm

    Yeah, when you spend all your income on taxes and living expenses, the burden of having personal possessions simply is not a problem for New Yorkers, is it? Who would want to live there?

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  • spirited
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:41pm

    Proto-types of Agenda 21 planned housing.

    8^Oh …..Social Justice

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  • macpappy
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:40pm

    So, it was small, but they made up for it by making it cluddered too.
    This story sux Blaze, could you not find real news to fill the slot?

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:39pm

    Good for them. Have at it. I will occupy a box one day…..and until then I am going to enjoy some space.

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  • Couyon64
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:39pm

    I can’t think of any place more deserving.

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  • ABRAXUS
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:37pm

    USSR in NY. Lets not forget the 60 watt bulb.

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  • tonypro
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:35pm

    Good for them, it’s their choice, not gonna happen for me though.

    Besides if you look just a couple of layers down, it’s hard not to think that n.y. is a model test for the u.n. agenda 21. Especially since it’s the u.n.’s headquarters in OUR country.

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