A Tiny $800 New York Apartment
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- This is the cheapest apartment in All of New York City. It’s also VERY Small. Could you live in a tiny nyc micro apartment like this or is this just way too tiny for you furniture and belongings? Regardless, affordable NYC apartments that cost $800 per month are hard to find, but here we have one and for someone, somewhere, this will be the start of their new york city experience. If you are moving to NYC for the 1st time, and youd prefer not to have room mates to save money this might be the right move. Check out this tiny nyc micro apartment tour and let me know what you think of this small nyc apartment. Would you rent a tiny nyc apartment like this in new york city?
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@@CashJordan Terrific video Cash!!
I love when you guys do videos together!
Hey Cash...and He Be...guess what? I'm in the process of purchasing a parcel of land and gonna build a tiny house for myself to live in on one end of the property and a couple more in the future to rent out on Airbnb...cool beans, huh? Wish me success...😊😎
You guys should do a neighborhood tour together. Cash's snark would make things extra entertaining!
No bathroom and no kitchen = NOT AN APARTMENT. It's just a room.
It's not even a room, I'd say. It's pretty much just a walk-in closet with a window.
@@AngelicRequiemX Yeah looks like a hallway with a fireplace in it. So dumb.
It’s a CLOSET!!!
These money greedy landlords carve up apartments and raise the rents to get more money..smh. I was born and raised in Inwood Heights in Manhattan and we had a nice 2 bedroom apt.. nice sized rooms and living room. Kitchen was nice too. I wonder what it looks like today...
Is it even legal to call them an apartment?
I’m sorry, any place that doesn’t have a bathroom and a kitchen is a damn closet.
Maybe it's just me but I think greed and lack of respect for human dignity drives some of these hellholes that are supposed to be living quarters.
@@sophiemorrison9820 Not just you. These renters literally don’t have a pot to piss in... It’s not cool...
It freaks me out that there's no running water in that space.lo It would be best as a place to store excess belongings although I don't know what commercial storage costs monthly.
@@sophiemorrison9820 As an apartment it is an unsafe situation for someone leasing....
Without a doubt. It must be illegal as such and immoral, too.
Those small "apartments" should be illegal. No toilet, no sink, no way to escape from a fire. Just hazardous.
This is literally for someone who is never home and has no intention of actually living in that space. Just sleeping.
You would actually be ashamed to bring a gf/bf home to this. Getting up in the night to go down the hall to go to the bathroom.
I'd still need a toilet & sink, tho.
Were they hang ot starbucks mightaswell spend more in rdnt even in new york be bored out all tine not much to see or do these people saying museaums broadway etc never go to them
I think there should be a law against renting spaces this small.
Yeah, like Japan at least have a law for proper pricing and size of a apartment, even their micro apartment still have a bathroom and kitchen(mostly no living room but it is a micro apartment) and the apartment price per month won't even reach to the immense amount like a thousand dollars
have aLL THE laws you want they are not enforceable
@@gregmccurry5619 it has to be legal to be enforceable, I understand what your saying.
This is definitely not a legal apartment but the combination of desperate people wanting to live in NYC + shitty regulation means this happens often
The first one was a SRO, and they ARE leagle. It is the calling it an apartment when it has no bathroom that is illegal. Maybe charging as much as they do should be illegal....
The state and city should pass a law that mandates that to be rented as an "apartment," it MUST have in-house (not in the shared hallway!) kitchen and bathroom facilities.
Why? That bathroom-on-the-hallway concept is a historic concept, so many people made that work, and many student homes still work that way. It is like a floor of roommates. There is no reason this should be forbidden. It is just a question of how much money you want to pay for it.
@@torkakarshiro5170 Note the quotes I put around "apartment." If you're advertising an "apartment," then that means it is completely self-contained, meaning the bathroom is INSIDE the apartment. This place would be more appropriately rented as a "room" with shared facilities.
@@torkakarshiro5170 It is a very historic and classical living arrangement dating back to ancient times and does work as long as everyone respects one another. I stayed in some rooming houses like that 20 to 30 years ago here in the states and stayed in tons of hostels and guesthouses abroad where you either have a simple room or you stay in a dorm and share a bathroom. One must be extra careful about securing wallet and valuables in more communal living settings where in your own apartment, you can leave your wallet, phone, and laptop out all the time. Little places like that aren't for sex and long relaxing baths and often you get a locker to secure your things in, particularly while showering. Some tourist guesthouses of the backpacker sort over in Europe were designated as, 'party hostels,' where the scene can be truly different. Western European countries have housing and tourist accomodations catering to many interest groups so everyone could be where they fit in be it gay, sttraight, party, quiet, artsy, hip, conservative, or whatever. In Asian countries, it was super fun, everyone fits in and usually respects one another yet used to being close together with limited space. They do have tiny basic rooms often catering to young people and students. In Korea they're called, 'goshiwon.' Even capsule hotels where you just get a bed sized box are available in some markets too. Some high tech looking and some very basic like military style.
At LEAST a bathroom. I would have to have my own toilet seat. Getting ready to go to the bathroom, get my toilet paper, towels, toothpaste and toilet seat. I'd be carrying it like a purse 😂
We need to help tenants and build more affordable housing, but I don't think that restricting the definition of an apartment and thus remove apartments from the rental market will help to reduce prices.
"Apartments" like that really need to have communal baths, not just a single toilet for the whole floor. Can you imagine all the frustration and fighting that must go on over bathroom usage?
Right. Because I can deal with a kept clean communal. At least 7 stalls 7 showers. Like college.
Definitely!! And there should be a separate shower room, not with the toilet, and with more than one locking shower stall so that people can get ready in the morning without running into problems.
There’s no way I could ever share a bathroom with strangers.
Two toilets per floor and a communal shower room at the ground floor would be nice.
I enjoy your videos extremely; your sense of drama & film making is professional; I was raised on foreign films: films were one of the factors that helped me survive childhood. I like how you share the transportation, the streets, the apartments as if you were a documentarian on NHK. I am homesick every day; trapped in Los Angeles. Your videos & esprit are therapeutic.
The city should stop landlords from doing this.
Agree.
Agreed.
Why should they it's called profit if you're pressed then don't move here bozo
@@avawilbon1314 its okay until it bites you back.
@@avawilbon1314 I would bet your a transplant and only mad because your paying more for less somewhere else in Brooklyn or queens
I've lived micro before. However, I had my own bathroom. I can live without a kitchen, but need my own bathroom. And I agree, Cash... the first two apartments you showed are nothing but glorified closets.
How can people live without a kitchen? Like, do you not eat?
@@areswalker5647 maybe they had one of those small electric grills and bought those big jugs of water and a mini fridge 🤷♀️
@@summer21953 mh yes it's absolutely an option but it's weird how people prefer to have a "small living room" with couch tv and table rather than a small kitchen in their apartments. To me the most basic things a flat has to have is a bathroom, a place in which you can cook and eat, and a space for a bed (or anything useful to sleep on)
@@areswalker5647 I have lived in apartment without kitchen, Mostly we would order in food, and we had small corner with stove, fridge and things to cook simple meals and used bathroom sink to wash it.but yes, mostly ibwas ordering in. We did had kitchen but it was shared and downstairs and we were up, so basically I didn't use it.
@@cocolocofamily759 wouldn't it cost A LOT to always order in food?
I really enjoy your videos ... and the best part is that you're always SO excited when you find a SINK SPRAYER!!!
I’m a new subscriber and I love seeing NY in this way! It’s not just about the living spaces which is a plus. I’ll keep watching for sure!!
Those two “apartments” made the third place look like a palace.
Wait. Is the pantry considered a whole apartment?? I'm not getting how this is even legal
Me too
It’s New York bro 😂😂😂😂😂
I think there just has to be two doorways. In case of a fire.
It is called a SRO, and they used to be much, more common. LL's could not make as much money off them as they could apartments, so they got the city to get rid of them. Obviously not 100% successful, but....
I love how he slams doors..and throws his backpack around..scratching everything..what a way to treat your customers property!
I stated watching these a few months ago. I am obsessed. Thanks Cash. I don't even live in NYC
I will never go back to sharing a bathroom.
No, I'll go one further:
I will never go back to having a roommate. If that means I have to live in a cheaper town or city, So Be It.
I said the same a year ago when I moved to an apartment all by myself for the first time in my family. But life happens, and I'll be moving abroad for a MBA in a few months. Only place I got at the student residence is in a shared apartment with one more person. Well, it's not ideal, but I'm trying to focus on a bigger picture.
@@maryymendes I can relate, I couch-surfed all through grad school. Best of luck!
@@co7314 thank you so much 😊
@@Brooklynlife1000 WHen I moved to NYC in 2013, we had a great group of roommates. Then our building went into foreclosure and the good ones moved out and shitty ones moved in. We then moved and again had decent roommates (meaning they were only there to shower and sleep). I moved again (lease was up) and had awful roommates who told me to move out after just 2 months (their excuse was they weren't renewing the lease, but nothing had been packed). I found another place with decent roommates and then I left last summer.
@@Brooklynlife1000 let's be roommates 😂
I think I saw the first apartment”featured on “Orange is the new Black.” 😃
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Seriously. Jail is better. You actually get a toilet in your cell and have free food.
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Lol good one! That pretty much sums it up perfectly.
Isn’t this what is called a “single room occupancy”?
Nope.
Yes, other than the lease term.
In Boston I lived in a SRO 120sqft was equipped with bed, mini fridge, microwave, sink medicine cabinet. Market rate 2013 was $525, I had a subsidy and paid 28% of my income. I moved to Hawaii to live off grid since 2015. I’m ready to come back
Yes exactly, it's a SRO/ rooming house not an apartment
.....a dorm room
Love the studio. So in love with the big windows high ceilings and beautiful fireplace.
these landlords are getting away with daylight robbery !!!!
Blame the suckers who rent that horrible little coffin
And how is it even legal to rent a place without a kitchen is what I want to know.
Sadly there's a sucker born every day and with shows like this and on cable depicting this time of stuff tourist buy into it. If you don't know new York you will be taken.
Surely this is illegal to be called an apartment. No bathroom, no kitchen, I mean... barely even space to put a bed. That's crazy.
As long as there are people willing to rent it they will get away with it.
@@sheilagravely5621 It just amazes me that there aren’t any laws against that.
@@theempire00 There is a law/city ordnance against calling that/advertising it as an APARTMENT. They are Single Room Occupancy, (SRO) and that is because they have no bathroom. SRO's and apartments do not need kitchens to be leagle. All,(certainly the majority) of the SRO's that I have seen shown on TH-cam by the different real estate people are nice, in what appear to be clean buildings. Of course I have only seen them in the city and not the other burrows, there might be a different situation.
Apartment! Apartment? For dead people to stay there. Dam 5 star you reckon .. F Sake . Just needs a Head Stone Bazinga! Oh wow we’re you stay New York ..? Oh a Tomb . Not a joke . Tell your grandkids that .
@@MsGorteck It's borough..not burrow..lol.
Damn you Cash! I should be finishing DIY jobs and getting my stuff ready for work tomorrow but instead I'm watching your clips ( which I only found this evening) and wishing I moved to NY years ago! Showing where the apartments are and whats around them is brilliant! Keep them coming. Now, I'm gonna watch one more and then I get my stuff done. (Who am I kidding! 😁)
Love all your videos I love seeing all the different options of apartments that are on the market and seeing the different distributions that there are and I really like how you describe them In all the videos I had not seen that you wore glasses maybe the older ones
I hate how many NY apartments expect you to put your living room in your kitchen.
And literally expects you to be okay with no place to use the restroom or shower.
I'm fine with having the living room in the kitchen actually, it's the no private bathroom part that I draw the line at.
NYC*
So basically you’re living poor asf, yet you’re paying bookoos of money just to live in NY? Hell nah, I’ll move down South where it’s affordable and you get much more room for your money. I live Down South and I’m glad. 🤙🏿
To be fair house’s have that too! That’s also why tubs are often found in kitchen...
Lol John is clearly the evil twin…window labeled “do not open.” Immediately attempts to open window.
Love watching the tours. It just blows my mind that you get so little for so much. I have rented houses for less a month than some of the places you show. That have a yard. But it’s in the peaceful Midwest.
I love this micro apartment and I definitely don't mind having and sharing the hallway bathroom for$800.00 this small micro studio apartment,their perfect for me. Thank you so much for the inspiration Cash Gordon in a few months I will start my apartment search. 💕💕💕
It’s not a micro apartment Dumbo. Stop trying to make a 3rd world room sound sxy. It’s a room without cooking facilities or even a sink. It’s-a room at a backpacker hostel. Hotel rooms have more. And you call it a micro apartment? What do you call a motel room with a bathroom - a mansion?
Here is the thing: anyone who, by any reason rents this kind of thing, just perpetuates the utter fallacy that is real estate in NYC, period.
I swear when I see these small apartments like those I feel like they just put up drywall anywhere and call it an apartment.
Well this guy does. I'm from new York i don't know when rooms became apartments.
Well in NYC, and many other cities that is what the landlords do. To hell with leagle or safe, that is what insurance is for
Thanks for the review Jordan ! Now I'll know who to hit up when I move to n.y for the first time.
Always entertaining! Thank you for another great video.
The first two apartments were so awful. But PLEASE show us more of these ridiculous small/illegal places!!!
I always heard of the apartment with the shower that's in the kitchen. If you can find that one... wow, please do a video on it
Ooh, when my niece lived in Brooklyn she had a set-up like that. Now she's a personal chef and caterer with a booming business in Austin. And she lives in a big gorgeous house in a forest overlooking a creek.
@@diannewi But look at the laws the governor just signed in Texas. On one hand: Shared bathroom. On the other hand: No body autonomy.
@@woodcider Texas is a million times better than that hell hole known as New York! I'll take freedom over a nanny state any day!
@@susanhubbart5494 it’s not freedom of people are telling you what to do with your body. THAT’s being a nanny state. Also, Texas can’t even maintain their own power grid. I was so glad to leave that crap hole Texas behind.
@@mindyschocolate Not to mention the car-centric suburban-style development in all major Texan cities (and almost every other city in the U.S.). It's so horrible to HAVE to drive or take a car to do anything, because it's so unsafe and infeasible to walk/bike anywhere in a major Texan city. There's no reliable public transport to connect the suburbs to the city, nor is there sufficient public transport to get you around the city itself.
Those window AC units have filters you're supposed to remove, wash, and put back. That would also help it run more efficiently.
It makes a huge difference. I thought my (heating) split system was broken, cleaning the filter absolutely fixed it
Hello Cash, I just recently subscribed to your channel. I never thought that viewing those tiny apartments would be so entertaining. Thanks.😆
i love monster rehab. remember going to van warped the first time and monster had a shaded relax station and gave out those. literally saved me from dehydration
The sizes and pricing of NYC apartments really makes me appreciate how big the small apartments in Friends really were 😁😉😉
Even back in the 1990s, the apartments on FRIENDS and SEINFELD were HUGE. None of them, even back then would have been able to afford those apartments. Complete TV fantasy.
When I see the small apartments all I can think of is how people stuck in lockdown felt in their cages this past year. So glad I live somewhere I was able to freely roam during 2020.
idk why but i like binge watching nyc apartment vids.. especially yours
That is not a legal apartment. I looked it up a long time ago, when you showed a apartment with no kitchen. The landlord IS NOT required to furnish kitchen appliances, but the landlord is required to have gas access for cooking in the apartment & access to water. A shared hallway bathroom would meet the 2nd requirement.
And I question the morals & character of any landlord who would put such a living space like this on the market; regardless of the rental price.
Shame!
its actually a good deal for 800$ and pretty good street location .. i'm sure a prostitute has already rented this as soon as she saw Cash's video
@@michaeledwards1644 I'm upset that the landlord did not supply ANYTHING; Which to me, is a larger issue
@@michaeledwards1644 Now you have me thinking even more about this. The landlord could have furnished a mini fridge with shelving on top of it. And a hot plate next to that. And shelving for clothes & personal effects.
I have an electric stove/oven, not gas. So, my place is illegal? I think, not.
@@renpilak6048 I'm not a attorney. I looked it up. It's a NY Statute. I invite you to do the same. If I can find it; i will forward it to you.
Pop out the front of the a/c unit and either wash out the filter with running water or replace it. You’ll feel much better knowing it’s clean and it will work more efficiently!
I've lived in a 40 square foot van for the past 2 years, I could do this place so easy!!! I would love this!
How do you call a room with no bathroom or kitchen an apartment? That's really annoying. It's a room not even a studio.
I don’t understand how something that small without a kitchen is allowed.
Reminded me of the tiny apt I once lived on the UWS. At least mine had a loft bed, kitchenette, tight bathroom with shower, and it was in a doorman bldg. I paid $750/mo, it was in the early 90s.
Sounds really sweet.
Wow
Love love the one with the fireplace.
watching this from my 3 bedroom 2.5 bath house rental for $650... I cant not imagine... but i have to keep watching!
Major solo dorm room vibes from the first two. I had a solo dorm room in College, it was less than half the size of a shared dorm room. Absolutely insane, but it worked well enough. The nice thing about it was I had a sort of kind of private bathroom. There were three solo rooms on that floor and they shared keyed access to a multi shower/cubical bathroom. Which was nice, didn't have to share with the whole floor and was usually by myself in there. The room did have a sink at the very least.
The first two apartments aren't apartments. They have no kitchens or bathrooms, so techicaly they are just rooms. The last apartment was nice, but then I am comparing to to the first two.
Maybe that was the point lol
Even American prisons have toilets in them. That should tell you about the mindset of the companies and individuals that own these properties. I’d LOVE to see them spend a month in the places they rent. Great content and thanks for sharing!
i'd 100% live in both of those first apartments. that first one with the fire escape sitting situation?? heck yes.
This is just a floor space rental. it can't even be called a bedroom technically because it doesn't even have a closet. Unbelievable !
Hey Cash I literally binge watched your channel until about 5am this morning lol Have a wonderful day 💘 💙
Welcome to daily good fabulous addiction
Cash has made me late for work several times 🤣🤣
I have been doing that recently too - I live in Canada so I have no excuse :)
This small apartment space reminded me of when I rented a room in Queens back in 1974; it’s a tiny bit larger and it has a closet. The room itself is more like a walking closet. It had a twin bed and you shared the common area. 😅
HaHaHa You're a riot...I watch your videos just to crack up at your hilarious comments. I subscribed
"if your marriage doesn't work out" LOLOLLLL
New York legally allows you to call (and rent) as an apartment with no kitchen, no bathroom, no closet?!?! I think in (some/most?) other states it has to have a window and a closet at a minimum? There is also a minimum size which I think is also bigger than this place.
Watch HG TV...those so-called apts cannot be even considered as a bedroom because an actual bedroom must have a window AND a closet.
Dear Audio. In 1993 I lived in a similar room in San Francisco with my husband and newborn baby. I couldn't return to my old apartment. The landlord said I violated my lease by having a baby. No kichrn/ bathroom. The rent was $1000.a,month
I think you guys are so cute along with your tiny apartments
I find this channel very interesting as it is interesting to see how big city living is so different from my daily life. I live in metro-Detroit in a suburb NW of the city. I know it is all relative to location, but I own my own condo and am single. It is a 1000 sq ft condo with a full basement (2000 sq ft total) and I pay less than $1000 in monthly mortgage.
I have no words
In my head, when I see you walking showing your shoes, going to the subway, I hear the theme of Saturday Night Fever, John walking down the avenue in Brooklyn. DO IT! Love the channel Cash!
Ok. Now I will.... and Cash can comb his hair approvingly whilst walking....👦🚶
Cash you have me addicted to watching these tiny NYC apartments....I don't even live in NY ..I'm from Texas 🤣
I LOOOVE THAT APARTMENT WITH THE FAUX FIREPLACE!
First apt looks familiar , there is a TH-cam channel that someone has with an apt very similar. He made it livable but I definitely call in a closet . Would definitely like to see a video on housing codes in NY and how far they can push the envelope on what they call livable
I will pass on this closet 🙂
I think it's immoral to rent out such small and sparse living spaces as "apartments " .
Yet, i am also fascinated with all the weird remodels/modifications which have quartered in size what used to be historically much larger residences.
Tiny apartment videos fascinate me the most.
Those “apartments” still better than Hong Kong apartments.
Electric kettle and two plastic bins. That's the only way that you can realistically do your dishes in those apartments...I think the worst is the lack of a private bathroom. Who wants to poop with strangers around?
Or worse, have to poop but the bathroom isn’t available. Hey at least you have an electric kettle and two plastic bins 😅
@@Sarahnjack Omg imagine turning on the poop kettle!
Another great video!
Cash, while watching your video, my Siri liked your voice and kept asking what your request was ! Lolol
Looks more like a dorm than an apartment. Not from NYC, but how does everyone live in all these closets they call apartments?!
Work all day, party all night. It's just a place to stash your stuff and sleeep.
@@frostedbutts4340 Guess that it works well for young people and still... what do you do if you get sick or had a hangover and can't use the communal bathroom because you can't even walk a couple of steps? You will use a bucket and let everything marinate in there till you can manage to go to the bathroom to dispose of the waste with a cup, little by little in fear of clogging the toilet while your neighbors ask you to hurry up cause they need to use it? And then opening the door for them to find how the bowels of hell smell? And they realize that you just tried to use the shower drain to dispose of the disgusting chowder too? And in a panic attack, you threw the half-filled bucket by the window and now an old lady is covered in your disgusting mess?
So... yeah, the older you become the more is the need to have a bathroom for yourself.
Maybe a inmate would feel at home if they been lock up for years.. but wow that’s just to me it’s basically a nice storage space
Not even storage place because that cannot even hold a small bed much less other stuff.
@@adrianbruce6736 not unless you stack boxes on top of boxes.
If that 2nd place had a bathroom I would be able to do it! The view and the light make up for the size
Honestly, Cashew, were I in my 20s and if it had its own bathroom, I could make that first "apartment" work. With a small space, the idea is to build UP. So here's what I'd do: I'd get a bunk bed and use the bottom bed for a sofa (and for my down-and-out friends to sleep on occasionally). I'd put shelving above the bunk bed - OR - perhaps some netting to store towels and linens. I would use a foldable tray for eating and working. I would get a tall, narrow bookcase for clothes on top shelves and other stuff on the bottom. I'd use two plastic file cabinets with drawers and a plank on top for microwave and maybe even get a watercooler. Also, in nice weather, I would put a big pillow out on the fire escape to sit and communicate with my gods. That place is so extreme that I felt the need to figure it all out! That's my cerebral aerobics for the day!
I love this guy and his shrine obsession. Who does he think he is Holga Pataky?
Prices are on the climb here in Colorado too. But I do have to salute New Yorkers for being able to deal with these prices.
If it were just me and I was starting from scratch - and if my employment was nearby- then yes! I could do it. It would be fun , although challenging, to keep it uncluttered but still have everything I positively need to make life comfortable. I would be saving lots of $$$$$$$$$$$!
Is there a legal definition of an apartment in NY? Even my pop up camper has a “shoilet” (toilet and shower combo)
I have a 30. ft camper.. i have a triple S system.. shit shower and shave lol ha ha ha ha
Yes, i looked it up.
When I was younger, up til early 2000s, a minimum legal apartment in NYC was 400sq ft with kitchen and bath.
Then about '04 or '05 they dropped the minimum to 200sq ft but it had to be a new unit or fully renovated unit.
Now, as of last year, I saw that minimum space is 150sq ft (not including kitchen and bath) and to be considered a legal apartment it has to have a kitchen (fridge/sink/stove/cabinet) and a bath (sink, toilet, shower or tub).
These micro prison rooms are ALL illegal.
Also on many apartments shown on this channel and others have bedrooms that are NOT considered legal sized bedrooms. A bedroom in NYC must be at least 80sq ft.
Lmao shoilet, thanks for that one. In Europe they just call it a 'wet room', where you get a small basin + shower + toilet crammed into 9 feet
@@frostedbutts4340 why I have a triple S system.. shit shower and shave lol ha ha ha..
A mansion in New York is a 2 bedroom with a bath.
Renting closets for appartments should be absolutely illegal! Even jail cells have a toilet and a sink in some cases!
I think some very old buildings in my city are like this. I remember hunting for my first apartments as a 20-something, and seeing ads where the rent seemed suspiciously cheap. My mom warned me about buildings where the "apartments" are just bedrooms, and everything else is shared, sort of like a college dorm. I never tried to live in one--it just sounded way too cramped, and I didn't want to be stressed out by the idea of needing to get up to pee at night.
I’ve come to realize as more and more people wanted to move to NYC, these buildings just started to cut their rooms in half piece by piece. That’s why apartments look like 80% of it’s missing. It’s because youre sharing what use to be a full place with a whole another group of people. For example the second place shown probably in the past extended past that wall across from the “fireplace” and actually included the other parts of a home.
I wish I would have found this place when I first moved to NYC. My home(s) was just a place to land after a day of work and nightlife expeditions. I never ate at home so it would have been perfect. I'm not sure I ever ate...I drank a lot. Anyways- it was a bumpy ride but I eventually landed in my forever home,..8 years of hopscotching apartments later.
Exactly! Most of these commenters about this being "illegal" or "unsafe" or worse have no idea. Nobody is forcing them to rent these rooms. Go seek out another place if you don't like it. It's not much different than dorm living (which costs MORE). Plus, in many of these buildings with shared bathrooms, they are not hastily put up stud walls, but real walls built between 1880s and 1920s. These buildings are officially called tenements as a legal description (shared bathroom) and not much different from just renting a room. My small 360 sqft apartment was once TWO apartments that had a shared bathroom in the public hallway. (They were combined in the 1960s).
Well Jason when you landed in this one, they’d be no sink for you to pee in. It’s a long walk to the bathroom for you and the lucky person you’ve picked up that will be impressed every time either of you need to go. S for that quick wash and brush Up before you begin…..
@@andyrob3259 not sure what the shit. but i accept..?
come on man. weed is legal. SMOKE IT.
what are you sayin' kid?
New York is not the place for a claustrophobic like me.
Can't stop watching this kind of videos tho
Just 1min and 11 seconds into the video... Why am i feeling that this guy has a complete influence of "Casey Niestat's Vlogs method (including music)" with a little of his style ofcourse !
1) The first apartment deserves the old witticism, "It was so small, you had to go outside to change your mind." 2) Did you guys consider the possibility of wiping down and vacuuming the window A/C unit before turning it on, to reduce the amount of dust released after its long hiatus in use? Just a thought....
Cash.. you also call it a "kitchen" but is it really a kitchen...? Or a bunch of kitchen appliances located on a wall near the front door? Ohh well glad to see the sink sprayer 😊
? LOL. Ross literally tried to rent something exactly like this.
Joey and Chandler wouldn't let him take it. They gave him terrible references so the landlord wouldn't rent it to him! 💖💐⚘🌻⚘💐💖
First thing I though of!
Yeah but Ross’s had a ‘kitchen / bathroom’ so you could ‘cook while in the tub’. 😂
Love watching these. I live in California Bay Area and I can’t afford rent in anything here. So I see these and yeah they don’t have kitchens and tiny rooms. But at least it’s your own place and you can afford them place. That isn’t here
Makes me feel that when people rent these closets and have to share a bathroom yet they charge a Lot in rent and u can tell they were once a full apartment. I just think horrible slumlord
Cash 😂 it’s easier to dust the ac than dust the entire office
There’s new dangled things called air conditioner filters. Eve. Washable ones need to be replaced. Compressed air cans will blow out the dust too and you can just throw a sheet over the AC unit and that will catch the dust or even $1.00 for a plastic painted sheet cover from Walgreens lol
I loved the camera pan to show this gem
😂😂😂😂
You can make a Kitchenette, dining room living room, closet and bedroom in 100 square feet. You could even fit a shower toilet combo in a 2x2 corner of the room.
I know that you can do it because I built a space that small and a buddy stayed in it for 6 months.
I don't know - I think if I could afford to eat out for dinner and get a decent bunk bed with a desk or sofa under I'd consider the 2nd one as it was very pretty and the bathroom was very clean - for someone just starting out it was a lot less depressing than a lot I've seen...
I am with you, I found it charming and adventurous.
I mean, yea, it’s less depressing than the partitioned “rooms” that people illegally rent out of office buildings, but one can easily rent a room in an actually apartment or house, share a bathroom with one or two people tops, and have access to a kitchen for that price.
Exactly! A "room" in an apartment in this neighborhood will cost $1300 and up. Plus, you'd have to share space with an unknown. So, this is not a bad price. Especially since it has lots of light. I'd still get myself a small fridge and microwave though....
Love those single room occupancy "apartments" on the west side. Some crazy ones around west 72nd street that actually creatively pass building codes. Btw to be legally an apartment each bedroom no wall can be less than 8 feet. (unless over 3 bedrooms in unit). Also, since it's sharing a bathroom with others, it's a dormitory or hostel. I love how Cash still gave advice on how to furniture them...making every place seem excellent! lol
1st apt I would build me a loft bed or buy one . Get bed off floor one area turn it to my kitchen area with a dresser . Plenty of ideas hear . Under loft would be a small desk area or put a Small Chair like Recliner or something to sit on. Invest in a foldable table like a tv stand eat on. You can tuck away. I could do alot with 1st Apt .
I lived for a few months in a basement suit that was about 8 x 20, but it actually had a bathroom and kitchenette in one half. The other half was the bedroom.
If these apartments were a big square then at least that would be something to work with.