for the next 24 hours i will be living in the smallest apartment
in all of new york city and that starts right now
last week my good friend cash jordan took me on a tour showing me three of the tiniest apartments in
all of new york city and the smallest of all these apartments was this 60 square foot micro studio
apartment now eight years ago when i first moved to new york city i lived in a 250 square foot
studio apartment in the upper east side the other day cash and i got to chatting when i was showing
him my new soho loft and he bet me that i couldn't last an entire 24 hours living in the micro studio
his laundry room that we just saw is bigger than the apartment that we're gonna go to right now
and that he's gonna trap himself in for 24 hours now the point of this entire video is to show that
yes it is possible to live in new york city on a shoestring budget i've done it cash has done it
many other people have done it i moved here living paycheck to paycheck broke as can be i'm talking
broke where i would take food from the hotel i worked at to save money on groceries and now after
about a decade as a 31 year old man i've worked my ass off and my life has changed a little bit
so that perspective is something i can share to show you that yes it is possible to move here and
live in a micro studio if you want to make it work if your dreams are that big you can make it work
as you're about to find out in this video one more thing for this challenge if you're new here i have
a golden retriever puppy named theo and it just wouldn't be right to have theo live in this tiny
apartment with me so my parents were nice enough to come and take him for the next day and a half
while i'm doing this challenge i'm gonna give you the key to the apartment but not the key to the
building you can't leave you got to stay here the entire time everything you need is in here
i think i hope i prepared the place how could i make a mistake if you leave this room other
than to use the bathroom which is in the hallway that's it man you lose the challenge the building
is covered in cameras and i can see them i'll know if you leave i don't think he's gonna be able to
do it i don't think so i hope so because i want to watch this video and enjoy it but i i don't know
good luck and here we go so it begins right off the bat one positive to this space is that there
is natural sunlight there is one single lone ray of sunshine making its way into this can you
even call this an apartment can you call this an apartment cash mentioned that he got us supplies
so let's see what we have here so number one we have the queen 10 inch air mattress of course
we have the double quick pump to pump up the air mattress i don't even think a queen-size mattress
could fit in here because that's a twin bunk bed so we'll see he was kind enough to get us a single
burner hot plate considering there is no kitchen in here all we have is the sink with the vanity
a microwave a refrigerator and freezer and i mean i guess it was kind of him to get us a hot plate
so we can actually cook something i don't even know if he left food we will see he got us a
spatula toothpaste i hope he got us a toothbrush last but not least a pair of shower sandals
because the bathroom is not in this apartment as you can see please be something in here nothing
nothing in the freezer down below okay all right we have some chicken breast tenderloins white
castle sliders for the microwave we have a healthy i'm guessing dinner option a power bowl thank you
for that cash and for breakfast we have a protein shake i've been in the apartment for just about 10
minutes and uh it's kind of that feeling of okay what next and the first thing that i normally do
when i wake up when i am home in my loft is i put on my workout clothes and get in a workout
and you know the rules i can't leave so as far as a workout i'm gonna have to get creative here
i did a circuit i did some pull-ups on the loft up here then i went right into some
good old-fashioned push-ups there was just barely enough room for me to go across the
apartment and then finally i finished with some good old-fashioned air squats right by the door
yeah if you work out in a 60 square foot micro apartment it will smell like bo in a matter of
10 minutes so with that said since the bathroom and shower aren't in this apartments you can't
just be walking around naked so we have the robe i mean i guess you could but you make
a lot of people feel pretty uncomfortable one more thing when you do go to the bathroom or to
shower you have to bring your key i almost just locked myself out of this place so anytime you
go to the bathroom or shower if you don't want to lock up you have to have your key
so the hallway to get to the bathroom let's just say it's quite cozy it's a long narrow hallway it
measures just about two and a half foot wide you walk down this long narrow hallway there's four
doors at the end of the hallway those doors are the two toilets and of course the shower and the
shower room is a whopping four foot by three foot that's it that's the shower there is a curtain to
block the door from getting wet there's a little hook to hold the door open right right here and
that is where you put your soap and shampoo which cash if you're watching this man there's no soap
so i'm just gonna take a quick water shower and just rinse off all the sweat from the workout
nice and cozy short little walk back to the place here are your neighbors all right and we're back
you know if you just moved to new york city if you just arrived and you're looking to be here this is
a pretty viable option if you are hustling you're trying to make it happen this this could work
man so i have uh i have these dirty clothes i need to figure out where to put and the thing
with a tiny apartment is you really have to be organized even for this little experiment
i don't have that much stuff but it seems like 10 times the amount of things because
the space is so small 9 30 in the morning i can't leave this place but it is still
a monday just like any other day and i have a lot of work to get done so i brought my
computer pretty safe to say there's no internet so i'm gonna tether to my phone
find a place to get comfortable and just sit down and get some emails done get what i can done done
i tried to get as much work done as i could and also can you hear this i'll go in the hallway
that's something you gotta deal with it's not too loud it could be louder but the neighbor is
jamming out on a monday afternoon and if you actually had to do work in here i mean i'm
talking you had projects it would be pretty hard to get them done in here i'm getting pretty hungry
so i figured why not open up the hot plate the hot plate is essentially a single electric burner top
they are perfect for small apartments for camping and it fits right on top of the microwave which is
perfect cash left me some options here we have the chicken tenderloins or we have the white castle
sliders and i was thinking about the chicken tenderloins but then i am a considerate neighbor
and i know damn well that if i start cooking on this hot plate it is going to smell up this
entire floor like chicken and i'm talking chicken with no seasonings he didn't give me any spices
any flavoring nothing just chicken so i'm going to opt out of the chicken
i'm gonna have the sliders i'm also kind of on a diet right now i'm doing a fitness challenge
but what's one cheat meal and i was thinking let me turn the camera even if you had a table in here
where would the table even go you couldn't really put a table in here if there's no room for a table
so even eating here you're gonna have to eat from your bed which we haven't inflated yet
so it's now 4 p.m i've been working pretty much the entire day doing emails scripting out future
projects i got pretty bored after i finished all my work and i tried to see if the tv worked
which it does but there's no cable hooked up i really thought i could do this i did because i've
lived in tiny spaces before but to live here with not much at all i don't even have books
i think i'm ready to throw in the towel if you actually lived here you would only be here
essentially to sleep you wouldn't be here the entire day you'd probably have a job somewhere
else you would work out outside of the park you don't move to new york city to sit inside a micro
studio that's for sure i get for the video though it makes sense that i can't leave here but i've
had it i've had enough i'm sweaty it's hot in here i do realize that once i leave i can't get back in
this apartment so this is it i have my bag packed up i'm leaving the hot plate i do wonder though
how fast it's going to take cash to call me or be over here by the time i walk out because there's a
camera right in this hallway the camera is right right up here right there hi cash we're leaving
oh what's up man hey i was looking at the footage from the building as i do from
time to time and uh what are you doing i i lasted as long as i could i i mean
it was like a prison cell are you giving up on that place
not necessarily giving up but i i had i couldn't stay in that apartment for any longer
i'll be there in five minutes i couldn't do it man i couldn't do it
well you know the neighborhood's why you'd want to live here anyways i mean it's a great place
but it comes with this and if you don't get to experience this it is kind of tough to
stay inside there all day i mean you say in your videos all the time the neighborhood
is what you're renting 100 man considering there's no furniture my mediocre supply did
i get you everything or did i miss stuff the chicken was a nice touch without the utensils
no utensils no spices no salt no ketchup for the burgers killing me
if i bring ketchup we try to spend the evening i do want to go back and stay the night good luck
just out of pure principle i'm going to stay the night we're back and i figured why not let's just
go all in we are going to cook on the hot plate oh my gosh i can't believe i just realized this
i went to the store and i got some smoked paprika and i also got some just black pepper to make
this chicken taste better and i realized that i don't even have a skillet to cook this chicken on
just a quick reality of what it's like to actually be here right now it's probably 80 degrees in this
apartment you can see by these beautiful sweat stains on my shirt that yes it is in fact hotter
than here this actually looks pretty good and i mean at least it's healthy i put the camera up
there on the shelf just to get you the perspective again there's no place to sit so either i'm
standing here enjoying this meal or i do have the air mattress which i haven't set up yet just
because i do have the fear that it might not fit oh wow oh my gosh look at this sucker this is huge
dripping in sweat but i've realized after attempting this that there is actually there's
a hole in the air mattress i don't know if you can see that yeah there's a hole in this so i was
about to climb up here you'll see that in a second but i realize when you are up here in the loft
you can't get to the light switch so you have to turn off the lights before you go
up into the loft so here we go my gosh oh my god all right all right here we go here we go
almost made it i've traveled quite a bit i've slept on dirt floors i've slept in hostels this
isn't my first time sleeping on a slab of wood it's not gonna be my last time but this is not
gonna be comfortable you can see by my face i'm glistening it is hot in here if you did live in
here you'd have to have the window unit the loft is a fairly decent size they're my feet down there
i'd say it's about seven foot long there's even a little cubby back here
we have an outlet here for charging your phone and a cable cord right here for the cable hookup
either the next clip will be here in the morning or
i'll be gone this might be the most uncomfortable night sleep of my entire life
it's five 11 in the morning 5 11 the next day oh my gosh where the lights at oh
my gosh focus i feel like i slept on a plank of wood all night my eyes are beyond bloodshot
i probably slept two hours i fell asleep at maybe like 10 30 i was listening to a an
audio book on audible i also woke up with what appears to be a pimple on my nose bridge great
i'm ready to get out of here and i probably have major neck issues now you hear that crack oh
all right that's it
oh and here we have it back in the soho loft that was an interesting experience it brought
back a lot of memories so with that if you enjoyed this video give it a thumbs up leave
me a comment down below if you think that you could live in that tiny micro apartment i know
i could if i was 18 19 years old i would make it work back then i wanted more than anything
to come to new york city and make my dreams come true if you're out there watching this
i hope this gave you a little bit of perspective and with that i will see you in the next episode