New Yorkers are used to living in shoe box apartments. Now, more of them can see what it is like to live in something even smaller. Leasing begins Monday at Carmel Place, the city’s first micro-unit development, a nine-story, modular... Read More
In the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about Carmel Place, the city’s micro-apartment building. I recently was able to get a preview tour of the finished interior. This is one of the studio units waiting to be hoisted up... Read More
Kips Bay has been called many things: isolated, concrete-heavy, a way-stop for young professionals. The east-Manhattan enclave can add another label to the list: test subject. The area has long had a reputation as a stopover for transient young New... Read More
Later this winter, a truck will pick up this prefabricated apartment from a former naval foundry in Brooklyn, carry it over the Manhattan Bridge, and deliver it to a construction site on Manhattan’s East Side. A crane will hoist the... Read More
When Max Dorfman started apartment hunting this past spring, he had what he considered to be eminently reasonable demands: an apartment to share with two friends somewhere below West 125th Street that would cost no more than $3,400 a month.... Read More