Jul 102012
NYC mayor challenges apartment builders to think smaller
As a followup to his not-at-all-governmental-over-reach program of trying to ban the sale of more than 16 ounces of soda, NYC Mayor Bloomberg wants architects to start designing apartments of 275 square feet.
They will be about four times the size of a typical prison cell and about one-fortieth the size of the mayor’s Upper East Side townhouse.
Pretty much says it, right there. Who the hell would want to live like that? Oh, wait…
One couple paid $150,000 for a 175-square-foot (16-square-meter) studio in Manhattan in 2009
Ye gods. That’s on the same order as the cost of my house, workshop and several *acres* of land.