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Making Room: New York's Micro Apartments

By James S. Russell - 2013-01-29T17:44:56Z

Photograph by Museum of the City of New York/nARCHITECTS via Bloomberg

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New York's First Micro-Apartment

Confronting a chronic shortage of affordable housing, the City of New York sponsored a competition to develop reduced-cost "micro apartments" to accommodate the one-third of New York City households that consist of single people. The Museum of the City of New York exhibits finalists, the winning scheme, and tiny-apartment examples worldwide.

A computer rendering of the winning idea, designed by the Manhattan architecture firm nARCHITECTS, is New York's first micro-apartment development. Units ranging from 250 to 375 square feet will be built on East 27th Street in Manhattan by Monadnock Development LLC.

To read the full article by James S. Russell, click here.

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