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The winner, chosen from 33 applicants, is a collaborative effort between Monadnock Construction, the Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation, and nARCHITECTS called My Mirco NY, which will have its design implemented in a 55-unit building scheduled for completion in 2015.

55 units is a pitiful small number of units.

NYC should have around a million new housing units, but zoning restrictions prohibit that. They limit height ("air rights"), floor area ratios, fenestration, etc. And that's not even counting the issue of landmarking. It all favors landlords and hurts tenants, but ironically many tenants support it because once they have their little place they don't want anything to change. If such restrictions had begun earlier, much of Manhattan would still be farmland and NYC as we know it wouldn't exist.

I think this of thing is going to be very big within the next 30 years.

if this site was created many decades ago it would have been filled with NYC bears jumping up and down screaming OVERPRICED!!! PRICES DISCONNECT!!! MUST GO DOWN NOW!

"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winner of the city’s adAPT micro-apartment competition yesterday,....."

I'll bet the Mayor lives in a micro-apartment. :-)

No thanks, I moved out of the dorms in my early 20s lol

Cool. I like very efficient spaces. Makes keeping up on the cleaning easier, and stops you from collecting a ton of shit.

It's really thoughtful that the design includes a balcony to jump from.

thunderlips11 says

Cool. I like very efficient spaces. Makes keeping up on the cleaning easier, and stops you from collecting a ton of shit.

Unless you shop at IKEA

dublin hillz says

No thanks, I moved out of the dorms in my early 20s lol

I think apartments even smaller than this if cheap enough would be pleny popular. Among other things, people with long commutes would buy them and stay there a few nights a week.

marcus says

I think this of thing is going to be very big within the next 30 years.

No it's not.

zzyzzx says

I think apartments even smaller than this if cheap enough would be pleny popular.

No, your wrong. Idiotic comment.