What can $150,000 get you in midtown Manhattan?

[baldguy]

175 sq ft.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/cozy_crazy_couple_makes_tight_studio_R15ToNFTaJE3c17zkw4efP/0

[MrScorpio]

1. Me out of Midtown Manhattan

I love the place, but I wouldn't want to live there

[HopeHoops]

2. A burrito and a small Pepsi.

[elleng]

20. Was gonna say, Dinner, maybe!

[Crabby Appleton]

3. A ride in a cab to Newark airport. nt

[rug]

4. A room 3 miles north of Midtown.

[KamaAina]

5. That's not even in Midtown!

Morningside Heights is way up by Columbia University (the place is on West 100th). It's a "gentrifying" area, but holy crap! :wow:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. That's not midtown - that's Morningside Heights. Near where I used to live!

Hung out a lot in that area.

[elleng]

21. Where my Dad grew up! He's 96!

[petronius]

7. I was gonna guess a parking spot, so in comparison a whole studio is pretty good

I think that could be fun, if you're really into the strategizing like these people seem to be...

[Moondog]

8. I never thought that there was

anything smaller than a Manhattan pied a terre. I was wrong. You would have to really want, or need, to live in Manhattan to do this. Makes some of the working-class spaces in Tokyo or Hong Kong look generously proportioned.

Sheesh.

[Initech]

9. You could sublet a cardboard box inside a bathroom maybe?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Hell, my place is smaller than that.

Of course, I wasn't dumb enough to plop down 150K on it, either.

[Maine-ah]

12. plus a $700 a month maintainance fee

$700 a month equals my mortgage payment - nor do I think I could live in that with 2 cats & a cat box....

[kentauros]

13. I have to wonder what kind of "maintenance" that $700 is buying?

Must be some rich maintenance people that work that building ;)

And $700 is my rent. I hope to see that as a mortgage payment eventually, too :)

[kentauros]

11. "We don't cook."

They're joggers and seem to be health-nuts, but they don't cook their own meals? Yet they buy champagne by the case :eyes:

[phasma ex machina]

14. "No one ever stays too long," she said. "It's too small."

:rofl:

[stray cat]

15. Thats a bargain if its true!

[applegrove]

16. A parking space.

[CreekDog]

17. Hot dog stand

[krispos42]

18. A lightly-used pickup truck, a bed-mounted camper...

...and a parking spot for it.

Drive it out to Westchester or Jersey as needed to refill the water and drain the septic system.


Oh, and you'll need a long extension cord.


:D

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

19. Whenever I am feeling a little sour about California, stories like this cheer me up

[elleng]

22. With the holidays coming,

the Prokops plan to hang a wreath and put up Christmas bushes -- but in the hallway.

"Maybe I'll just get Christmas-tree pajamas and wear them around,"