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GUESS HOW MUCH A 54-SQUARE-FOOT UNIT WITH NO KITCHEN OR BATHROOM RENTED FOR IN
NYC

By Hannah Frishberg

Published March 15, 2024, 1:56 p.m. ET

An itty-bitty closet of a Manhattan apartment has resurfaced online and gone
viral for how much it cost per month — and just how little it offers. 

This 54-square-foot Midtown West unit without a bathroom or a kitchen listed for
a grand $1,200 a month, and — as usually happens — appeared in a video that
accrued more than 2.8 million views on TikTok.

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“So today I’ll be showing you the smallest apartment that currently exists in
New York City,” listing agent Alexander Bruni claimed at the beginning of the
brief clip, which posted last February. “Check this out.” 

According to Yahoo Finance, which reported the video making the rounds once more
online, a similar unit with the same specs in the very same building rented for
a cool $1,290 per month in February.

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A view inside the apartment, whose tiny size doesn’t fit much.
thatnycrentalpage/Tiktok

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The hallway outside the apartment. thatnycrentalpage/Tiktok

The unit appears to be a single-room occupancy, or SRO apartment, that was later
converted to market-rate rentals. SRO housing in New York dates back roughly a
century — and was originally meant to house individuals who would otherwise be
homeless. The pocket-sized studio is a legal if rare arrangement, in which
tenants share a common bathroom located elsewhere in the building. In the case
of this unit, it’s down the hall.

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It takes Bruni mere seconds to show viewers the entirety of the Midtown West
unit, which is just 9 feet by 6 feet, a size so small he repeatedly reassures
his audience that “this is real.”

The micro-unit features a single window that appears to look into an air shaft,
two shelves and “no space for anything besides a bed,” Bruni says. 

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The unit is just 54 square feet. thatnycrentalpage/Tiktok

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The shared bathroom, located down the hall. thatnycrentalpage/Tiktok

Other recent viral stories about SROs have featured a similarly compact Midtown
residence, which rented for $650 a month, and another Greenwich Village
third-floor space that sought a whopping $2,350 a month. 

What do you think? Post a comment.

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Although many may consider the set-up extremely overpriced, Bruni — who
regularly helps New Yorkers find more normal-sized abodes and shares tours of
his listings on TikTok, where he goes by @thatnycrentalpage — argues that it
does have its merits. 

“In reality, all jokes aside, in college, whatever bumble town you were going to
college in, you were probably paying $1,200 at least for the dorms there — you
were not paying to live in New York City, that’s for sure,” he says. “So yeah,
the unit might be small and very unsightly but at the end of the day for what
you’re paying you get to live your life in New York City.” 


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