This loft on the Upper West Side features multi-level platforms with a small bathroom hidden beneath the stairs.
This $1.29 million Midtown apartment is starved for storage, but it includes a number of crafty design elements, like a hidden pantry.
Other amenities are also integrated into the unit's design. The kitchen counter has grooves for plates and cups to dry, so water flows right into the sink.
Carmel Place, located in Kips Bay, was the first New York building to exclusively offer micro apartments.
The 55 apartment units range from 265 to 360 square feet. When they opened, the monthly rent went anywhere from $2,650 to $3,150.
Though the units are tiny, residents have access to housekeeping, grocery delivery, dry-cleaning pickup, and a gym within the building.
The building is made of modular units that were prefabricated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The pieces were then brought to Manhattan and assembled in Kips Bay.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and HPD Commissioner Mathew Wambua announced the design proposal in 2013, and the building was completed in 2016.
The service Ollie, which curates furniture in some micro-apartments, decked out 17 of the studios in Carmel Place.
Ollie included furniture, WiFi, a TV, cable, and subscriptions to the butler service Hello Alfred and the events club Magnises.
Some units feature white desks that slide out into larger tables, as well as coffee tables that can be raised.
This exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York was inspired by a contest for designing micro-apartments that can serve as affordable housing.
This 350-square-foot Soho apartment — owned by architect and entrepreneur Graham Hill — lists for $750,000.
All of the furniture is designed to serve multiple purposes. Sliding "couch cubes" offer portable seating and can double as a queen-sized bed.
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Hill's first micro apartment, a 420-square-foot Soho property, has an asking price of $2,369 per square foot.
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But its residents would have to be comfortable with their bathroom serving as a phone room or meditation area.
Hill paid $287,000 for the apartment and spent an additional $78,000 on the renovations.
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The unit is built to accommodate one of Hill's own inventions — an expandable bike that can go from 21 to 6 inches wide.
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Three years ago, Grayson Altenberg moved from a shared space in Brooklyn to a 100-square-foot apartment on the Upper West Side.
Even Altenberg's space can't compete with one of the tiniest apartments in America, a 78-square-foot space in Hell's Kitchen.
Personal organizer Felice Cohen has written an e-book about living in 90 square feet — roughly the size of a Honda accord.
While Cohen was living on the Upper West Side in 2010, the average rent for an apartment was $3,600 per month. She paid just $700.
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"The studio changed my life," Cohen told the New York Post. "It made me realize that I didn't want to waste money on stuff — I had no place to put it."
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