This 77-square-foot NYC apartment with no bathroom rented for $2,350/month
As Manhattan rents continue to skyrocket, most recently reaching an all-time high of $4,200 per month in April, New Yorkers are bound to see some crazy things.
That said, one particular city unit is going viral online because of how much you just don’t get for your buck.
In Greenwich Village, an empty third-floor apartment was listed for rent at $2,350 per month.
Considering this is way below the median rent in the city, you’d think you would be scoring a deal. That’s until you discover it only offers 77 square feet of space — and no bathroom.
Pegged as a “perfect starter apartment,” the previous listing notes, the unit at 49 W. 11th St. is a “Single Room Occupancy studio where you share the bathroom in the hallway with other tenants” — which has become the norm for a lot of buildings catering to college students.
In a viral TikTok video from December, which continues to makes its rounds, real estate agent Omer Labock with Douglas Elliman gives viewers a very short tour of the studio — because, well, that’s all that’s needed.
“New York is a special place🥴,” Labock captioned the video.
“Do you believe this is a New York City apartment,” Labock asks. “This has to be the smallest apartment I’ve ever seen. It is a studio located in the Greenwich Village, and the space you see is the entire apartment.”
“You do have a small kitchenette set up with a mini fridge and a sink, one big window, and you might ask where the bathroom is. And the answer is that there is no bathroom in the apartment. It is actually located in the hallway and it shared between four different units.”
When it first listed in December, Labock said rent was $1,975 per month.
“2k for a closet ! nah I’m good,” one person commented.
“This should be illegal 🥺,” another person said.
“It looks like a fancy jail cell,” someone else quipped.
But in April, the unit went up for rent at a higher $2,350, with marketing mentioning it was ready for “immediate move-in.” Looks like whoever rented the pad for four months only had enough.
And it seems like the small space, no bathroom and exorbitant price tag was good for someone else.
The unit was scooped up just a few weeks later.
Jonathan Tauzowicz with Compass held the listing.
According to Rent Hop, this apartment’s rent is 40.26% cheaper than the median rent of $3,850 for a studio apartment in Greenwich Village.
