INSIDE the SMALLEST Apartment in NEW YORK CITY | 60 ft.² Micro Studio
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- INSIDE the SMALLEST Apartment in NEW YORK CITY! Well we have found it! In this video we tour the smallest of of all the micro NYC apartments, minimalist New York studio apartments, and tiny NYC apartments. This studio is officially the smallest apartment in ALL of New York City...with just 60 ft.² of usable living space in this micro studio apartment!
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0:00 - Intro
2:20 - Apartment #1
6:00 - Apartment #2
9:53 - Apartment #3
Welcome to the channel! Erik Conover is an American UA-camr, Real Estate Agent and adventure filmmaker living in New York City. Conover creates travel series featuring incredible destinations around the World, along with his million-dollar luxury listings series giving viewers exclusive access to some of the most beautiful luxury homes on the market.
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Comment below when you started watching my UA-cam channel and if you remember the VLOGS from my first tiny apartment!
I started in 2017/2018 and I remember I think the second one or so haha... I loved it!
I've only been watching about a yr and a half unfortunately 😪 lol
2018!
I started watching in 2015 when you were with Jess
3rd quarter of 2019 or something. Anyway, when you go back to the vlogs it seems like true luxury compared to these😂
I can’t imagine paying $1100+ dollars a month for an apartment that is smaller than my bedroom. I am truly grateful for what I have.
You should be🤨
The enjoyment is outside the room in the city. The room is just to sleep and groom but the hallway bathroom is insane in a super bad way.
@@antdx316 but you don't understand living in places where you can get a large home for like 1 or 2k a month 1095 for a 5th of your room is absurd
@@fsu-chorgz-2490 Yeah, but think about where you have to live to have such cheap housing.
It’s a choice they made. Don’t feel bad for them. NYC is the most expensive place in the country (maybe San Fran)
“For 1500, this is not bad”
Yes it is. It is bad.
NYC is insane
1500 in my town could get you the nicest house there is
not bad but VERY BAD JAJAJAJAJA
It depends on where you are in life. If you're a young kid, fresh out of college and you got a good paying job, city life is great. But after about a year of having fun, yeah, living in a closet doesn't cut it. And with COVID-19, the benefit of city life obviously isn't there like it used to be.
@@jlgonthebeat3080 a house or a full apartment within a house?
It’s not an apartment unless it has a private bathroom and a kitchen. If it doesn’t have those things, then you just rented a room not an apartment.
It would be extremely cool to see people living in small places like that. not just see the apartment empty ... but see how a person would arrange their belongings and make that tiny space a home.
Imagine asking your girlfriend to come back to your place. I don’t think they would be too many second dates.
Right, that's what I was looking for. An empty one ALONG with one fully furnished.
@@sunnydaze2359 I was in a similar situation for a year while living in Chicago, I still got ass 😁😁😁 Got to play your cards right.
Well, Hong Kong is a thing and they do that there...
Even smaller places than depicted in the video btw, "Cage homes" have only about 10-30 square feet
I recommend a channel called Tokyo Lens. He has a video on tiny Tokyo apartments that's exactly this.
Huge window to look out everyday to think about where it all went wrong ….
Good one. That really made me laugh!
Lmao
😂🤣😂🤣😂
LMAO
Lol!
These prices are criminal, I wouldn’t even call it an apartment if there’s no stove or bathroom, it’s a bedroom.
Bro, that's a broom closet.
@@professionalyoutubevideowa37 🤣😂🤣 sadly true...
Welcome to nyc
Or room for you know company
That first appartmen is almost three times as expensive as the 3 bedroom 2 story family home my mom rents
Great video! but let's shift our attention to something productive. with the way the market is moving, we'll mostly hold for longer than 2030 to realize profit gain, I think a video on "How to profit from the present market" will be more effective, I mean I've heard of people making upto 250K within few months and I'd like to know how.
well the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward and such impeccable trades are better executed by professionals
That right, I started investing sometime in 2018 and by late 2019, I pulled a profit of over $750,000 with no prior investing knowledge or skill, I was basically just following the guidelines set by the financial advisor I use, so you don't necessarily need to be a perfect investor or do the hardworks, just have a professional guide you.
How can one find a resourceful broker, I buy the idea of employing their services, its a shame market crashes as of late have become a sort of habit for stocks
John Joseph is the brokerage-adviser. He has been of great help and his tutelage has brought me to a higher understanding of profit generation. Crypto trading is a digital currency investment that can bring you good profits over time.
I think I came across this name John Joseph on my way to work on the billboards and as to his effectiveness how can he be contacted please?
Building wealth involves developing good habits like regularly putting money away in intervals for solid investments. Instead of trying to predict and prognosticate the stability of the market and precisely when the change is going to happen, a better strategy is simply having a portfolio that’s well prepared for any eventually, that’s how some folks' been averaging 150K every 7week these past 4months according to Bloomberg.
That’s crazy, I’m just doing everything wrong with my portfolio
The US-Stock Mrkt had been on it’s longest bull-run in history, so the mass hysteria and panic is relatable considering we’re not accustomed to such troubled mrkts, but there are avenues lurking around if you know where to look. My wife and I are retiring this year with over $7,000,000 in tax deferred investments. up until 3 years ago we were 100% in the S&P. During bear markets we had a perfect plan. We got an investment manager in our corner and didn’t look at our portfolio for nearly a year
Same here, 75% of my portfolio is in the red and I really don’t know how long I can stomach the losses. I’m beginning to reach a breaking point.
Patience patience patience. It's a cycle.... a sucky point in the cycle, but a cycle nonetheless.
Hello, I am new when it comes to investing and i would really appreciate if I could get some tips about where it is worth to invest in (ETFs, Stocks, Growth stocks, Dividend stock etc.)
Imagine being in quarantine in that last apartment? I would literally go mentally insane.
Same!!
That would’ve ben called solitary.
as long as there is internet.. just change the interior to be something out of a luxury hotel
Atleast mental hospital has more room than this hahaha 😆
It’s bigger than my place and I’ve been stuck here all quarantine …
No wonder why there's so much crime in New York, they're already used to living inside jail cells.
They are used to living in solitary. The get arrested so they can have more room at a much better cash value.
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMAO
What are you taking about? NYC is the safest major city in the US and has a murder rate that's about half the national average.
@@kirkrotger9208 idk about that bro
I’m a New Yorker and I never understood why they made this big big city with all these tiny tiny rooms. Blows my mind.
Make America great agian. By the way America was never been great. They got rich by doing wars and looting oils. Middle East made todays USA.
It’s to fit more people if they eliminated these tiny apartments. The population would go down by a couple thousand.
@@H81234 And so would the rent hopefully lol. This makes good sense though.
@@N8dagr8t I think if 3 million people moved out I’ve New York City things wouldn’t be as chaotic as it is now. Y’all are too overpopulated.
@@H81234 not enough housing being built due to building regulations. I think nyc abolish zoning long ago but there is still more thing holding nyc back. Density needs to be increased, add more floors to low rise buildings.
I have never been more thankful for growing up in the Midwest until this video. For many years, I've thought 1br 1 bath 623 ft² with more amenities than I could type for $1550 was outrageous. That's considered luxury apartments for us, and in NYC, they're getting shoe closet apartments for the same price.
I love how they are all cheery while they are selling depression.
reminds me of Black Mirror episodes
Well they’re making money. lol
@@crossovo omg right
"Depression" I want the last one
I'd be down for one of these! Either that or vanlife
Imagine paying $1100 for a bedroom smaller than a standard prison cell.
Well for me it’s more like 1300 and my place is smaller than apt #3 …
@@fatmonkey8u my only question is WHY?! How do you people put yourselves through this and then tell yourself it’s worth it? There are so so so many other places around the world where your quality of living could be 100x better for less money
3x the space isn’t saying much 😭
@@Chi26trojans seriously in my country i pay 500$ for a month for 3 bedroom apartment, 3 other rooms a kitchen and 3 bathrooms and my room is 4/5 times bigger than apartment number 3
I don't have to imagine it, I did it when I was in Korea. North Americans don't have a clue what dense apartments are. But now that I have done it I am extremely confident about my adaptability
I really don't know why but I am utterly fascinated by living in small spaces like these.
Same, but it's more because it's NY
Me too. The first and second apartments are bigger than where I used to live in my early 20's in South Korea! I was happy then
honestly videos like these are more inspiring than the 8 or 9 figure mega penthouse ones. getting your start in a busy place full of opportunities. even if you’re not in NYC, being at the beginning of your journey can be super exciting
What does it inspire you to do?
I second this comment
These apartments look like the houses I build for my poor sims where they have just enough space to move.
This made me giggle! ;
As a New Yorker who loves sims, NYC is just a big file save with the move objects cheat on 🤣
Your a savage Lord
Hahahaha omg so true
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can’t get my head around the fact that he said his old studio was about the size of a walk in closet.. like sir what walk in closet are you talking about
Lol 250 Sq foot closet? Damn
I think in the UAE they sometimes rent out closets as sleeping quarters, their cities are that expensive. But come to think of it, gee, some of us have walk-in closets about the size of some of these apartments. That's sad.
#richlife
@@lyndagruen2047 yeah no, nobody has closets that big without a)sacrificing a necessary room or b) having immense amounts of disposable income
@@MrHocotateFreight Not everyone lives in a city.
I would be willing to do the 2nd one. Using a bed with additional storage. And I don't mind the tiny bathroom because I wouldn't feel safe sharing a bathroom as a woman living alone. And I have a weird fascination with tiny spaces so that one felt the most reasonable option. Still really expensive though
And the "terrace" on the fire escape somehow speaks to me as well! 😁
Yes, never a place without it's own bathroom.
I resonate with that wierd facination, even though I see in the comments that people like you and me have less likes 😂
After seeing this video, I appreciate my spacious studio a million times more than I ever did.
Yep. Mine, too. My studio is 300 Sq ft, and I have EVERYTHING that I need/want in it...including a separate area for my daughter's "room" (behind 2 7' room dividers).
@@MARRANCA2 Your space sounds amazing!
The fact that they're laughing and acting like it's some wonderful thing to "make it" by getting ripped off by greedy landlords is wild. Like, I'm sitting in Chicago right now, desirable neighborhood, ten minutes to downtown by train, less by car and in paying less than the adjusted rate on that first walk-in closet. NYC has people brainwashed.
Chicago is cheaper to live (lived there, my favourite city in the whole big, wide, wild world). 1500/month is pretty much what you pay for a bedsit in London (lived there as well) though you have to pay bills on the top (council tax, say 100 quid, electricity andother 100, water, gas). Does 1500 include bills?
@@ketugrahagraha3673 Yeah, I know it's cheaper, that was kinda my point. It's still overpriced in a lot of ways, but landlords in places like NYC get away with murder.
I pay 1350, gas and electric not included. I earn enough to be considered firmly in the "upper-middle class" category but would be scraping by in NYC. It's nuts.
@@windycitydreaming Yes, it is. I watched once a video on the UA-cam about a lady who built an eco-hut on her own land (Wells, UK) and had to fight for the right to build a place on her own land for 8 YEARS! The way she put it, t's not civilized when people have to fight for the right to have a roof over their heads. NY is crazy. London is even worse.
@@ketugrahagraha3673 So since I live in this monopoly city I'll tell you in some cases for example, if you pay 1500 in most cases in Manhattan where they're looking is just the rent, very few add some (at least 2) utilities within that amount. Its fucking ridiculous. I don't know who the hell wants to live like that, you're wasting more than what you can try to save.
When you look outside of the city into the the other 4 boroughs depending on the neighborhoods you can find a bit more for less, or more for about the same, and those agai. are with some utilities and very rare with ALL utilities included. At the end of the way it's what you make like for instance a minimum wage job they typically pays $15-$17 dollars isn't going to cut it here, you'll need another form of income, if not try to land a pretty decent job... NYC is fun but actually living here will honestly suck you dry.
@@windycitydreaming Don't even get me started... I've been searching for my very first place and even considering places looking for a roommate and it's still baffling on what I come across. At this point I rather search across the Hudson into jersey! At least there I've seen some rentable places that offer all utilities included, and have a pretty decent room (750-900 with some-all utilities) or decent size apartment for yourself. Like I've seen a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom, and a kitchen with living area at 1200-1500 with some utilities, and in jersey they parking on the property with is a plus. Now that's definitely not that bad at all.
I come from New York and still live here, both of those “apartments” are illegal. These Landlords are ridiculous!!!!!
Just curious what laws are they violating? Is it a fire hazard thing?
@@grayonthewater There’s a bunch of codes these apartments violate. A legal bedroom in NYC must be a minimum of 80 square feet and have a width of at least 8 feet in any direction. An apartment needs two means of egress such as a window and a door that can be opened from the inside. The last apartment doesn’t have a fire escape, if there’s a fire in the hallway there is no possible way for the renter to get out safely.
@@salvyboy102 last I checked the codes said the minimum was a 150 Sq ft excluding buying built before 1978.
Like a studio and 1bed have to be a min of 150, but a 1 bedroom the bedroom has to be a min of 80
I feel like I'm already running out of air to breathe by just watching how tiny those apartments are
after seeing all those tiny apartments i feel so lucky and grateful to be living where i am living.
“Don’t say the rent’s too high”
Bro, where I live you can rent a whole 3 bedroom house for $1,500. I understand the appeal and the pricing; it is a huge city full of business and culture and opportunity, but for something that little it’s just a little jarring.
Dead serious, where do you live? I might move there.
@@kieran.grant_ LMAO
We have a 3800 sq. ft., 6 bedroom, 3.5 baths, 2 story with full basement house for $1400ish a month mortgage payment.
Is New York really that appealing these days?
You think that's crazy, I have a two bedroom with formal dining room, a garage and full yard control for only $500/month plus electricity. Clinton, Iowa- full of jobs and dirt cheap to live in.
idk how i would live in a place like this and not fall into depression
You live in NY though, you're supposed to treat your place like a hotel where you're only there to sleep and shower.. that being said those prices are absolutely ridiculous and should be illegal
I'd love it!
@@eddieportillo897 the last one didn't even have a place to shower
@@eddieportillo897 Idk I don’t like that. I think your home should feel like a place to recharge.
I would develop claustrophobia so fast! Just watching this video makes me anxious.
I was lucky to find my current place for a very cheap price and it’s bigger than all these apartments combined. Seriously I’m not joking. The last tenant was here for years which is why the rent is reasonably low. I’m also in NY.
The first apartment is great for someone who just moved and is looking to get used to NY before getting a career and moving up.
The other two literally raised my anxiety
That second apartment looks like something I’d build in sims with like less than 2000 simoleons. I swear I’ve seen that bathroom in every tiny build home-
“NYC is one of the only cities that you can move to broke and still make your dreams come through.” Stop giving people false hope. You got lucky
Far better is to move to a less expensive city, get a job save some money and get a real place to live in.
A little luck and some hard work. Most people will get stuck there.
Mutch better chance living in Wisconsin screw living in new York
I’m glad you called this out. I cringed when he said that. It’s such a ludicrous notion. It’s disheartening to see influential people promulgating false claims upon their impressionable audience.
This is my most liked comment
$1,100 for apartment #3 is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. This is coming from someone who loves NYC.
Agreed. It should be illegal
They can always sucker someone into paying for it, someone very desperate, probably.
My 1550 sqft house with 2 car garage is only $1200 a month.
Especially since for another $300 you can get a decent-sized studio on the UES, uptown, or pretty much anywhere in the outer boroughs.
My mortgage is $150 cheaper for 1600 sq ft and an acre of property...
I always watch these videos and I’m like, “ wow, they are so small! I can’t believe it!” Meanwhile, looking back, I’ve lived in very small apartments before. One was a room above a garage and I did once go to look at an apartment in I believe it was Takoma Park, MD. I walked in and it was like a kitchen/bedroom/living room combo then a tiny closet and a bathroom…honestly I think it was smaller than these apartments. It’s near DC so it makes sense. I don’t remember the price, but I think it was around $800 a month.
You really gotta have big dreams living in NYC. I live in a two-story, 2 bed, 2 bath apartment for $975, split with a friend. There is ample storage, we have all appliances (even room for a dishwasher if we needed it) and a ton of space + a yard. I'm happy I chose small-ish town living
New York City isn’t just Manhattan lol you can easily get the same prices or better ones for much larger apartments in the boroughs. People’s obsession with living in broom closets just to say they’re from the city always surprises me.
You can find much better options in Manhattan. These people want the status of living in certain neighborhoods.
I was looking for this comment 😭😭 they could really go tour much nicer apartments for the same price in queens or brooklyn, a few train stops from the city 🤦🏻♀️
“Broom closets” 💀
ikr & its not like you’re sacrificing the city experience because you can literally use public transport to get into Manhattan easily
@@gabbieromano58 I hope more people who have a dream to live in the city come to realize this. There's no need to sacrifice your comfort and sanity to achieve that
It's unbelievable that landlords in NYC get away with renting closets as apartments
@Mega Canon
No, it's American greed
You can thank liberal De Blasio for that.
@@seansense This had been the way WAAAAY BEFORE de Blasio's time.
I'd you build it, they will come
@@seansense didn’t know De Blasio was responsible for pre-war building and zoning…
Well I pay 75 bucks a month for 2 beds (or 1 bed and a studio), living, room, kitchen, service yard and 1 bathroom, but it's in state of mexico lol
After seeing this video and comparing it to the smallest apartments in Japan, New York is still a decent place even at it's smallest. Very entertaining and interesting. Keep up the awesome vides bro!!
That last place is definitely for a med student who’s doing nothing but sleeping there.
Lol
Bold of you to assume that they sleep
No one should have to live like that
I didn’t
A study table under that bed for the med student
NOW I know why NYC has a LOT of homeless people, these rents are absolutely ridiculous and super high because it's the city of apparent dreams. I'm doneee
Democrats ruin everything
Prices are high because no one wants to live there. Most people would like no live in NYC no one wants to live in bumfuck Boise or Kansas
@@Big_Lou57 I’d absolutely take Boise and probably Kansas over NYC any day.
@@stoneyj1a1 Really? Didn't know Giuliani or Bloomberg were democrats, you know when all of the rents started exploding and homlessness skyrocketed?
They're done - because of rents like that. But without them, there'd be no busboys in NYC.
A friend of mine lived in Tokyo for a year, he went there to teach English to people their who needed it for their jobs, but it was where he lived that was ridiculous! It was a small capsule type that only was your sleeping quarters,as you shared the kitchen,sitting room and bathroom with about twenty others in one room! The building he lived in had a hundred floor split into ten rooms each floor,then those had the twenty capsules! He said after awhile he got claustrophobic from the amount of people and it was worse when you walked anywhere!
I watch these videos all the time. Cash's videos and collabs with others. I would never make it. I literally could not do it these days. I lived in cities and now I gotta be in the woods :) More dogs. Less people. Still the videos are interesting :)
Born and raised in NYC, and stuff like this is why there needs to be a huge overhaul of the renting laws and standards in NYC.
Some people don't agree with me but all I'm saying is things need to change because You shouldn't be able to rent out what is basically a storage closet for 800 plus a month, there need to be set standards like how a room must have a window and a closet for it to legally be considered a bedroom. I could understand paying higher rent for a studio apartment with a nice kitchen with new modern appliances for 1300$ to 1500$ but instead we are seeing tiny closet like this go for these prices, we need some regulation on the amount you can charge for the amount of space you are renting out.
There's far worse than these 😑
Bro, there are so many studies about rent control in cities that show its effects
There are people that live in pods in Hong Kong. They are not much larger than a casket basically, you can’t stand up in them.
@@KaguraWindQueen Hard to act otherwise when you grow up there. As a Midwesterner, I agree however.
How about reduce the property values in new york
'This can't be legal' - perfectly summarized that last place.
how would you even bathe in the last room?! the hallway bathrooms didn't seem to have showers!!
@@WhateverIWantChannel Gym showers i guess. These places are way overpriced for anyone in middle class so I think it would be better moving to a less populated area.
(overpriced compared to other similar apartments with the same size in other places)
I'm so thankful for people that choose to live like this.
I'm in a two bedroom in the ghetto, Single parent, pets, and all repairs and upkeep is taken care of me, for 9 years. TINY... but manageable, with dishwasher and laundry in unit. I'll share pics! Great job making that space livable!
After this i feel rich for having a normal sized apartment.
bruh my bedroom in my parents house makes me feel richer than this
@@mikeymike9926 My bedroom, the smallest of the three, in our old double wide is about the size of #3. And our house payment is $500 a month.
I have the most “expensive looking 👀”
Closet in my home from the looks of these apartments..
Dead ass
Normal sized apartment in Idaho is not comparable. People pay for the neighborhood
This is way more interesting then luxury apartment tours tbh.
Rasmus spitting fax
I remember when I used to watch his old videos and I agree. It feels more relatable and down to earth.
I agree
Absolutely.....reminds me of my dorm university days with shared toilets and showers in the hallways. Some showers had mould in the corners and the aluminium windows from the 60’s/70‘s allowed a fair amount of draught and rain drops come through .but hey good memories 😊
It's because after a while, the luxury apartments all start to look the same
The first unit, all four of those apartments, in that little hallway were probably all one unit at one time.
That second apartment, that small if you would want to call it a loft, would be considered the bed space in a place like China, they would even provide a ladder.
It’s crazy how these apartments are legal.
I’ve gone back and forth with it but if I had a solid full time job up in NYC I could make apartment 1 work. I’m a minimalist and after mapping out what I’d put in there tbh that place is a pretty damn good deal for NYC
I feel like a lot of people living in big cities have Stockholm syndrome towards their respective cities and don't even realize it.
as fuckk
Lmao 😂😂
i definitely do lol. we come to accept the city as our home and playground, the apartment is just where we go to bed. unlike suburban NY, NYC provides great public spaces with secure wifi. add to that street food vendors, living in a tiny apartment can work for someone who spends their day working in the office, hanging out with friends and doing recreation by the river, then going to bed in a tiny shoebox and taking a rooftop breather now and then
@@deathroll914 That's interesting perspective, actually. I can respect that.
Sounds like someone who’s never lived in a city. Probably never been to one either.
My mouth dropped when you said $1,100 for the last place. I was legit thinking no more than $300. Absolutely insane.
@Data Fix you're high fam.
@Data Fix You know, there are these magical 48 other states to choose from. Hell, 50 states, outside of the couple cities you're referring to. And you couldn't pay me to live in SF. I could live in NYC doe. But this is still crazy. He has shown plenty of spaces just a little more expensive but five times the size.
I live in Union New Jersey which is about 45 minutes away from New York city. And I pay $350 a month for my apartment and it's a pretty big size apartment. It's actually a condo so I guess I own the inside. But it's pretty spacious at least compared to these apartments.
Well, you pay mainly for location, not size, so makes sense
@Data Fix Just because something is lowest in it's market range, doesn't mean that its fair value. Know your economics man.
I could handle living in a tiny place, but I draw the line at not having a private bathroom in my own place. When I lived in the dorms, I cooked my own meals 3 days of the week or I'd eat out. Then I moved off campus because I just didn't want to live on campus and for my safety because I was getting bullied by some of the residents. The only off campus housing I could afford were once 120 sq ft. dorms that had been renovated into tiny apartments. The "bathroom" wasn't even a room because there was no door. It was just a toilet and shower, and I hung up curtains for separating it from the living/sleeping area. The kitchen was just a counter with a fridge under it, sink, and a 2 burner stove. My entire apartment was the size of a bedroom, including the "kitchen" and "bathroom". But it was all mine, quiet, and I was safe.
The fact that the last apartment is smaller than the bedroom of my one bedroom apartment and costs $700 less blows my mind. I cannot imagine paying that much for that small of a place
"Its great if you have no friends"
Sounds like a great place to live to dive as deep into misery as possible.
Nice place to be a junkie.
Or dive somewhere else
Well, a few of em have balconies you can hang yourself from at least. It’s not a glitch, it’s a feature lol
@Nóra Jánosi Looks more like the last stop before you BECOME homeless.
My take away, particularly regarding the last apartment, is that just because something is possible, it doesn't make it ok.
100% agree - the way they were talking about that last flat made it seem like it was okay that Cash just dumped all his stuff just to make that flat work... would also really love to know what the rent for it would've been in 07 bc I doubt it was anywhere close to the 1100 they're asking for it now..
I currently live in the smallest town home in my apartment complex which is 790sqft in Texas, my rent is $1385 a month including my own parking spot in front of my place. if it wasn't for my very expensive car note i would be living here worry free lol but i like living in in very nice safe areas so i guess i just have to deal with the expensive rent until i decide to own a house.
I've watched a few videos now and this is a really good channel! I'm subscribing.
Alex webber is a guy living in one of the apartments in the last building, he just moved to New York and is posting videos about this place if anyone wants to see the perspective of actually living there!
I knew it looked familiar
its actually Axel Weber but ya I love that guy
That’s the EXACT one it’s facing the brick wall with the neighbors window placed slightly to the left
@@avaisabel4719 it’s actually Axel Webber
I love Axel so much! He deserves the world
the constant “this is a good place” really hammers home that this is the bad place
It's NYC so I mean yeah, it's all overpriced garbage
@@IrishSpyHD60 wrong, South Brooklyn area is not like this at all. You actually get a good amount of space. People just have to stop flocking to Manhattan
is this a sneaky reference or am I only imagining things
If you think this is bad.. ill happily exchange you with a Ukrainian, Cuban, Taiwanese, or Venezuelan.
@@XAVE325 Nah it's all shit
I think you said it right at the end with the smallest apartment, “if you want to be here bad enough”. For perspective I just moved from the southern New Mexico area. At the time this was filmed I was living in a 850 ft^2 apartment for 850 a month
I have officially come full circle with these two touring this apartment together.
The fact people find this ok and pay that much for tiny ass rooms is insane. I wouldn’t pay over $300 for not even the first one. My two bedroom apartment in Texas is $570 a month with a decent sized living room, kitchen and bathroom.
That's going to change soon with the millions of others coming from California.
Overpopulated
570 a month you can mortgage a house and pay the expenses in north Florida.
They don't have much of a choice if they're working or studying there...it's still better than living conditions in HK.
I agree with ya...Is the cost of living in Texas better than Ohio? Also what city in Texas? I pay $735 for a 1 bedroom just outside of Columbus, Ohio (in cols I'd be paying 1000K for same apt) ...our cost of living is going up in Cols, Ohio bc more ppl are moving here (bc cost if living is going up so much in the big cities), but I didn't know Texas was cheaper than Ohio ... I may need to move there.
That’s insane..imagine during the pandemic when everything was closed. Spending hours and hours in these “apartments”
Lol rip
I lived in a student dorm with 14,5 m² and moved 5 month into the pandemic. You feel like in a prison. These apartments are good when you just come home to sleep there.
Not fully disagreeing with you, but you were still allowed outside. People could walk. Go to the park.
Almost everyone I knew who lived in NYC during the pandemic moved to a suburb in NJ (some temporarily, some permanently)
@@blakeswansonfitness6240 what's her instagram? 0:38
Pretty decent deal.
I'm from New York and anything around 1k per month for 1 guy is a steal
I liked the first apt. and could make it cute. Since I'm only 5ft 4in. I could survive in the second because I'd rather be able to live alone than share. Now the 3rd, nah, I can't imagine anyway to make that cute and livable. Stay healthy, happy and safe always. Blessed be
"Don't complain rent is too high."
1100$ for 60 square feet - you're fucking joking right?
You can’t even compare this to tiny homes, tiny homes offer so much more. This is just depression
Exactly they are normally on a large amount of land, so you do have loads of your own space - just not indoors space - which is fine if you're an outdoorsy kinda person... these 'apartments' are prison cells
@@lucybridges5887 tbh I think prison cells might be bigger than that last apartment
@@PeacefulAcres and have their own toilet
Well said, my childhood room was bigger.
yeah my 25ft squared house is way better than this! but i did have to sacrifice a big kitchen 😭
Lived in there in 1999 with my best friend and my cousin. THREE MEN... It was a WILD time, things were not the same... Good stories, some unbelievable.
Dude lets be honest , your not renting an apartment you're basically just renting a room at this point .
Apartments under 100 square feet should really be illegal, considering 100 square feet is what's generally considered psychologically healthy as a minimum for one person.
I’m 5’7. I could technically live in these no problem, for the long term. But if a Queen Bed can barely fit into this room. It’s waaay to fucking small for my liking
Fr
In France it's technically illegal to rent a room under 100 square, that's not an appartement that's considered as a closet !
@Uintah Basin Palms 🏜️🌴 - well of course they are out in the city who wants to spend hours trapped in that cage ? You’ll probably go insane
@@sergiomerino1434 Yeah, but it sucks even more realizing you’re paying so much for a place you rarely are.
This lifestyle looks like hell. Marketed to you by a good looking guy, the exception-story. Don't let him persuade you, youngsters. You *WILL* regret it.
For real. Imagine living in those apartments and then being forced to work from home. What a joke. That is not living.
Exactly this. They even state the apartments are owned by that one dude. Pure marketing.
@@jacob3275 Wait what??? 😯😮
Are they owned by him or is he just the rental agent finding tenants for the place
That dude looks like a vapid frat bro who can pretty much sell anything.
No word of a lie but when I first moved to Tokyo I was staying in a room about the size of the 3rd apartment.
No bathroom, sink or anything like that but it had a bed, an AC unit on the wall, small fridge, wardrobe / desk combination. And eventually my GF moved in with me. A couple months later we got our first apartment together which was something like 55 sq meters. It was like going from a shoebox to a mansion.
OMgosh!! Somebody turned the broom closet into a living space! I have no words...other than, I love Idaho! I love North Idaho lol. I literally have no concept of how the rest of the world...lives, apparently! Wowzers 😳😁
He said “don’t say the rents to high” sir, I pay 900 for my 3 bedroom HOUSE with garage and yard. I know rent it to high.
Legit, my neighbours house for 900€/m with electricity and water, and he gets a garden, house with 5 rooms, 2 bathrooms, garage with upstairs storage.
I mean, I would consider the second apartment shown, but not for more than 150€ warm xD
I only live in an old trailer, but it's 3 bedrooms, have a good sized yard and a shed. I pay under $700.
Well it's all down to the area. You could buy a mansion in some countries for very cheap, but is the area nice and can you find lots of jobs?
@@UnseenSpirit that argument is barely relevant anymore with most people working remotely (even post quarantine)
@@UnseenSpirit also the trades are always hiring whatever part of the country you live
Smallest Apartment, $1,500 a month is insane
We know no one ask
In NYC, $1,500 is dirt cheap'o!
tbf, they're doing their job as real estate agents, I pay $1400 for a one bedroom in Astoria, Queens lol 15 minutes and I'm in Midtown but have to deal with the stigma of ~not living in Manhattan~
In the valley of California I pay half of that for a 4 bedroom apartment 😑 NYC is insanely expensive and for what?! 🤷
Bruh my parents pay 1.8k a month for a 3 bed and 1 bath apartment in L.A NYC is expensive
Where do I find these micro apartment listings online? I can't find any websites or any listings for micro apartments under 1k?
Amazing!❤
10:56 The fact that they call a “room” with no bathroom or a complete kitchen an apartment should be illegal. 😳 that’s highway robbery. I’ve seen college dorms better than this 😳🤦
I haven't seen a single student apartment as bad and all we're way, way cheaper.
Where's the shower?? Above the toilet? That cant be legal
@@photograhy Technically, it's in between the toilet and sink. It's a wet bath, like in an RV or on a cruise ship.
I think prison cells are bigger........
In Canada, we call that rooms! I live in Quebec City (donwtown on the main street), in a building with many rooms for rent that all have a sink, a fridge and an oven with shared bathrooms in the corridor. The rent is around 375$ a month. I'm the only one of the building considered to live in an appartement: It's a big 3 1/2 (kitchen, living room/dinner room, bedroom + bathroom) with high windows, brick walls and a terrasse and I only pay 560$, all included ! 🤔😉
"you know, it's a luxury to have a bathroom" you have GOT to be kidding me.
edit: fast forward 2 months, im moving to NYC- some of these rooms are kind of a steal.
Why are you normalizing incredibly expensive rent for an unlivable space? This video is late stage capitalism commoditizing basic sanitary needs like a toilet and washroom and up-pricing it- how is this video ethical?
LOL right?
@@showuh9739 you sound so ignorant and privileged. You’ve def had an easy life.
It is a luxury.
@@to.lame.to.function5242 his point is obviously that it SHOULDN’T be a luxury to have a bathroom in your house, it’s a basic necessity ???
6:53 I've seen a shower where the toilet was directly under the shower head. So when you had to do your "business" during your shower you simply sat down while the water still sprayed on your head and you simply continued with your "occupation". It was an experience I cannot pass on properly because this is something you have to live for yourself. And it is not only the fact how interestingly that particular aroma of yours mixes with hot water and air around you :D
I know of a couple living in an apartment smaller than 140 feet square, incl living area, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. They now pay US$675pm for that. They aren't allowed visitors nor pets, no parking anywhere nearby.
File this under: "stupid shit people put up with for no good reason.
Exactly. Scummy slum lords get rich while renters stay poor.
They get to live in the greatest city on earth. Where else can you pay 1,500 in rent for a shoebox?
@@johnthedropper7289 except rent is so high you can't actually do anything while living in "The greatest city on earth." This guy couldn't even afford the subway you think he was having all kinds of fun in NY night life?
@@MrSomnix wooosh
@@johnthedropper7289 Greatest city on earth, where many residents and businesses are fleeing due to tax and regulation.
Did anyone else feel uncomfortable watching the last apartment. I’m actually amazed that this is even legal. I’d rather live in a forest...
Better than being homeless
it's not legal at all - it violates the city Housing Maintenance Code and the state Multiple Dwelling Law
Don't say it's better to live in a forest (or in a tent homeless). You would die to go back to this apartment , it's AWFUL, but it's warm and it's safe.
In Hong Kong this would be a luxury. A family with 2 kids would fit in there.
@@supremeneon9757
Yes, because I’m sure it’s better for the whole world to live in apartments, centralized right?
I live in a regional city centre in Australia, I rent a full sized 3 bedroom house with each bedroom being easily 2-3 times the size of these apartments, I have a massive front, back and a side yard, all fully fenced, etc for $1060 a month. I don't understand how someone could live in such conditions, it feels inhumane and it's just to have access to a crowded, polluted city like New York? Definitely not worth it to me
Them: not bad at all! Kind of surprised me!
The "apartment": a hallway with a kitchen for 1800.
Damn, thats insane.
I'm so glad I got out of NYC after trying out the dream. What a cold, lonely, overpriced city. My first 3 months I squatted with a stranger I met online, lived on her couch for $700/month. Then got a 4 BR apartment (that I obviously shared with roommates) in Queens for 1k/month. I didn't eat the entire time. These videos are so fascinating to me, but I hate how people like this always glorify NYC and make a closet apartment seems so affordable and "doable".
Out of curiosity - what did you do for a living in NYC?
@@MHouston602 I moved there after I got my BA in media production. I hustled around film and TV sets looking for a job doing anything, even coiling cables, but no dice. I tried TV and theater too but only got 2 interviews and never landed even an entry level job in my field.
I got a job at Whole Foods my first month there and that's where I made my meager income. I also accidently became a theatre critic on the side, which I continued to do for 2 years. That was the only part of the city I enjoyed though, being able to review local and off-broadway shows.
Is it me or is he screaming loud
NYC sucks
lol this dude talking about how anybody can move there and make their dreams come true. What fucking dream? Jesus.
As someone with a house in the midwest, I find mini NYC apartments facinating. The first one wasn't too bad, but by the time you get to the third, I'd rather just live in my car at that point
The first one is the actual LEAST I can do.
там еще и туалет в общем коридоре!!!!
🤣🤣
U wouldn't say that after u slept in ur car out there on the street after one nite..
thats more worth it then those places. find a Walmart Parking center to sleep in and get a gym membership at a 24 hour gym for showers ,working out, bathroom use and your good to go for less than 100$ compared to 1000$ a month
Hey not a bad thing if youre goin for that minimalist lifestyle these places will keep you in practice! I would love it!
I can't get the math to add up here? How on earth can you afford a rent of 1100 a month on an average paycheck? Even if you are lucky to be at $4000 .. all other costs that comes with it, just doesn't add up.
I live in a semi large town, in the city, and my rent is $500 a month for 550sqft. If it had been a newly built, I might have to pay up to $1k a month for a top quality finish. But for those apartments shown in the video, I would not expect to pay more than at max 300-400 a month. That is real estate greed in a nutshell. Insane.
The third apartment looks more like a prison except that it’s not free.
i was thinking it looked like a College/Uni student room in student housing,
Also except it has no bathroom
@@davidreynolds8865 the last thing I would want is to get stuck inside such a tiny apartment during my exam period.
New York under Democrat deBlasio has become a prison
yep move out of new york i wont live in salutary no thanks!
Living in the second or third apartment would be legitimately depression-inducing. I can't even imagine.
Yeah, I'd rather have a bit more than an airplane lavatory for a bathroom. And enough space for a stove and a real bed. And greenspace. And trees..... yeah, NYC is not to my liking. Not a fan of the insane prices, clausterphobia, high-rises or crowds, sorry.
@@lyndagruen2047 I do live in NYC, and still find what I'm seeing here to be exhausting.
That bathroom in the 2nd one is just scary to think about. The floor looks flat so if the water overflows it'll just spill out of the bathroom into the room. I can't imagine living in these rooms and having to pay 1k a month for something like this.
Those bring back my memories in Hong Kong which almost the same house rent and size.
Fr it’s like a prison cell. You can’t even really cook anything and not having a real bathroom is really shitty. It’s basically a college dorm
The last apartment is basically a prison. I am pretty sure there are some prison cells which are bigger than that - and you don't have to pay $1100/m
Imagine a new condition red brick home with stately white pillars out front and a 2nd story large screen porch in the back, furnished basement, with a built in temperature controlled 2 car garage, 4 roomy bedrooms, 2 bath, on over 5 acres of land, yards big enough for separate full-sized football and baseball, 2 outbuildings, gorgeous rural mountain views, and so much more, only 8 minutes from work...
...and now imagine affording all of this with a mortgage, including tax and insurance, priced exactly within the range given in the video for that last smallest apartment in NYC, all while building equity. This is how my family chooses to spend that amount of money. I just don't see why I'd move from here to there. I have a small town that serves almost all my needs where I work, a medium-large city a half hour north, and Pittsburgh an hour north of that. And, the kicker is, because I bought relatively recently, most of my neighbors have as much or more for less money... I love West Virginia.
A lot of people live in NYC when starting their careers to get that huge starting salary. I can see why someone would live there for a year or two to get that salary for negotiations.
I would advise against anyone moving there without a solid plan (and a job!) though.
@@yaboi4984 I can see your point since in some industries that could work, but in my lines of work, nobody really looks at past compensation, they just look at what you have done/can do and make you an offer; take it or leave it. Then once you're in, the negotiations can begin after a while once you've shown what you're capable of within their own organization.
Everything about this sounds like absolute hell.
Can’t imagine living in an appartment smaller than a college dorm
@@Purzify ...then some pandemic hits, and you can't leave home!
Not just hell. But the lowest level of hell.
I kid you not, those apartments are straight-up illegal in Belgium.
They should be
Same in Spain, each person needs at least 30 m2 of living space according to law. So 3 people must live in a place at least 90 m2.
America is backwards
I'm pretty sure that last one is illegal in NYC, if only because the bathroom isn't actually in the "apartment." I also searched city records for the last building: they have had multiple complaints from residents about illegal apartments being added and "apartments" being rented out as hotel rooms (which is not legal). The city had not been able to get into the building while anyone was actually in the illegal apartments or using rooms as hotel rooms, so the complaints have been dismissed, but it's definitely sketchy.
Same in Croatia
*The second apartment is fine with me, if I have to choose. It’s not as expensive as the first one, but at least, it has its own kitchen and T&B.*
I love how all the virtual stagings show sitting areas cause they couldn’t figure out where to put a bed 😂
I'll be renting out my pantry, thanks for the inspiration.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 me too, I may rent out the closest of the bedroom and the coat closet too
Bro I'll be renting out my goddam drawers.
Lol 😆🤣😂😹 OMG I'M DONE!!!
My mother had an addition added to her house, for a bedroom. It was bigger than this, and is only costing her just over $400 a month. It's just not in a city, with artificially inflated prices.
Hey bro, I'll let you sleep in my closet. Only $50 a day.
Honestly didn’t even think the first apartment was bad as a student’s (or post grad) place but $1800/month?? SICK! My stomach tweaking
Wow that last one is expensive. All of them really. I just moved into a 3 bedroom, bath and a 1/3 apartment for just under 1200 a month, split 3 way (students), with a galley kitchen, large living area, furniture and a washimg machine included. New York is crazy 😅