Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments

Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by jseliger on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:36PM (#11067051)

The development is the product of a 2012 design competition intended to address one of the city’s more vexing housing problems: How do you build safe, legal and reasonably priced apartments for single New Yorkers who do not want to double — or triple — up with roommates?

This is actually not that hard: the solution is to reduce or eliminate height restrictions and build more subways. That's it. I wrote more about the issue here: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-futu... and do see the links within it.

The failure to understand basic economics is amazing.

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Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by ghaff on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:55PM (#11067199)

You mean like the $4.5 billion 2nd Avenue subway that is nearing completion after being discussed for something like a hundred years.

And, while one can always build more and build higher, Manhattan isn't exactly a study in low-rise construction (although much of the city is low/mid-rise). And if you stay in NYC hotel rooms where you're looking out at some narrow shaft between buildings, it's not hard to understand why there are some limits on just building skyscrapers willy nilly.

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Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by rco8786 on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @02:31PM (#11068028)

"nearing completion" is an enormous stretch, if not just plain wrong. The very first phase is still under construction and only consists of 2 miles of a planned 8.5 total.

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Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by ghaff on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @06:28PM (#11069670)

I had seen some headlines about 2016 completion. Didn't realize it was only the first phase.

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