this is officially the smallest apartment in all of new york city
a lot of you watching this know me as the guy who creates travel guides to exotic places
around the world the guy who did a workout with thor and of course the guy who tours
luxury apartments around new york city but not many people watching know that back in 2015
when i started this youtube channel i was living in a 250 square foot studio apartment with an
ex-girlfriend at the time that's two people living in a space the size of most walk-in closets
it's important to lay this backstory because when i first moved to new york city i was
broke i was living paycheck to paycheck i had a ton of student loan debt so living in that tiny
apartment was my only real option to be in one of the only cities in the entire world where you can
move here with absolutely nothing not knowing a single person and make your dreams come true
so this vlog is a special one as someone who's spent two years of their life living in a shoebox
new york city apartments and if you follow my instagram you know i recently moved into a 2
000 plus square foot loft which i'll be touring in the next episode but it's very safe to say i have
the perspective of what it's like to live in these places we're about to tour in today's episode
there he is did i ruin your shot the man the myth the legend mr cash jordan so if you don't know
cash is one of the top rental agents in the entire city this guy has toward how many apartments you
said two hundred dollars oh she's so i've made over 250 apartment tours on my channel but
they're not as nice as his tours as you know i mentioned i've lived in a 250 square foot
apartment this is kind of going back like a blast from the past let's see we're at the first place
and like i said these apartments are only going to get smaller the final one might be the smallest
one in the entire city and they're all smaller than what you just mentioned none of these are
200 square feet no forget that that right there is third avenue on the other side of us is second
avenue we're in midtown east on 53rd street and uh you see that tent city those are actually
restaurants so if you walk out your door you might gain weight you ready so here we go nice welcome
all right all right so for the main hallway we have the actual apartments we have four units here
ready here we are first apartment door stays open
oh wow this is actually not as bad as i thought number one because we're facing south true so we
have the sunlight but this is uh yeah this is a tiny apartment it's a square footage it's not a
bad place let's uh let's check the square footage i got the uh the laser tool yeah what do we have
here 17 feet seven inches by six feet six inches i'll tell you six four so if you go horizontal
your head and your feet are gonna touch the fridge roughly 18 by six so like 110 square feet
not counting the bathroom so maybe it gets up to 175 150 square feet max this is the biggest place
that we're seeing your bed i can't see another spot for it then in this corner somewhere and i
think you're going to want to get the smallest bed that you can but once you've got a bed here really
past the fridge i mean it's going to be a small table and probably like a tv mounted on the wall
and that's the setup i wouldn't put a couch here what's crazy most people they don't do
a murphy bed because they're going to live here for like two years they didn't have one in their
parents house growing up and it just doesn't make sense when oh i might move in with so-and-so in a
year anyways why am i going to spend more than i need to right exactly let me show you guys
the bathroom so again this i'm happy that this is like normal size need to get an extra light
bulb up there but at least it's like a normal sized bathroom the fact that it has a bathroom
you'll see later in the video but the fact that there is a bathroom in here you know
that's a luxury yup it's yours this is not a bad apartment it's a good place it's just
small the kitchen and everything was redone like a year ago you've got all normal size for new
york normal size appliances any other 49 states that's not a normal sized stove i love how in
new york things just become normalized like this becomes a nice kitchen for an apartment like this
but also like the nice locker on the cabinets good storage pretty much this is the nicest
place we're gonna see what is this so then we have that's your thing that is your closet
and that's it what is the rent for this place so it's 1800 with some free rent so it
nets out to 15. this is the starting point of this video like cash are saying the nicest the largest
yeah it's just uh this is the big guy it's not horrible for 1500 a month if you're just moving
to the city and you're looking for that first apartment this is not a bad first apartment
cash was just saying it's been a while since he's taken anything but the subway
there was a point when i first moved here where i would bike from the upper east side down to
the meat packing district because i couldn't afford the monthly pass that's crazy in my mind
100 and i think it was 120 a month was like that's food yeah that's food right there so
i biked from the upper east side i'm talking year-round we're here on mcdougall street we're by
washington square park new york university fun neighborhood not midtown definitely a more
desirable neighborhood you have all the cafes it's much quieter you're on a tree-lined street
and this place is smaller yes correct and cheaper but definitely smaller and maybe
the neighborhood's a little louder let's go check it out
there's a code i have to type in so i can't show the code to the internet but the fact that we have
a code that's a little level up rather than a key entry we have a code let's head on in i don't know
if we're all gonna fit come on in oh i don't have do you see this here they go spin around
this is the smallest apartment i've ever seen you're you might be too big for this apartment
like my wingspan is almost the entirety this is probably a nine foot go look at the bathroom dude
wait till you see that are you seeing this in the frame so for some perspective like i'm a pretty
big person but i take it at the entire door of this bathroom bathroom sink we have a
vanity the shower is just in the middle here sandwich in you have the shower rod
to then cover the water from getting on your toilet i've never seen
i don't have words for this i'm not like this is the craziest thing i've ever seen on a positive
note this is technically a self-cleaning bathroom because everything's going to get wet because your
shower's right here in the middle and you have the nice shower caddy i can't believe this i mean
we're going to take some measurements but this is you have to go inside look you have to turn i you
can't walk straight like this to get out i have to do the side shuffle to get out of the bathroom
and then we have the i guess you could call this the kitchen with the kitchen the kitchenette we
have a sink it's a nice storage area you could put a hot plate here i guess uh and plug it in
the faux marble right here on top from the kitchen then we have the mini fridge microwave
combo so my shelves the store whatever you like and then in the corner where diego is
is where the bed would go yeah i don't see another place for the bed i mean it's gonna have to go
here this could be the bed so this is technically a loft if this holds should we test yeah i mean
you have insurance does does eric have insurance so you could sleep up here this holds 215 pounds
wow so you put a ladder there and then this would be the bed and actually look at this i'm just
noticing this see that spackle oh yeah someone someone had a ladder you know we gotta look at
the positives when renting because this whole video is about you're just moving to the city
for the first time you're looking for that first place so on the positives you have a huge window
with tons of light bouncing off that window you have the fire escape which is this could be a
balcony you know you might pop out there at your own risk let's head out there you have your own
i guess you could call this a terrace if i can even make it out here okay got the shimmy out here
okay we made it so you do have technically an outdoor space and it's actually interesting
someone has the drying line here with the closed clips you could even have a garden out here
someone has a plant box like cash was saying outside you are paying for the neighborhood
we're on a beautiful tree-lined street in the west village but back into the apartment let's
go take some measurements if i can shimmy on in here from the medicine cabinet to the
tile what is that two feet yep just two oh geez oh that is a tight shot man right there 1.7 let's get
the measurement of the actual space so i'm so cute like what is this space so let's do it oh
geez all right well kitchen counter just about eight feet yeah it's just underrated
yeah depending on where i put it like right now it's 7 11 sometimes it's eight so like eight by
nine eight by nine eight by nine 72 square feet 72 square feet and it's all yours twelve hundred
dollars is what this nets out to so it's cheaper and smaller than what we saw first it definitely
has less but like eric mentioned the neighborhood here is fantastic and
since you'd probably be paying 1200 for your own bedroom in this neighborhood
to get an apartment that's the size of a bedroom is that the same deal with no roommate it might be
we took a little hiatus we picked up another member of the apartment hunting squad and we're
seeing is this this is this is it and you know what's funny is we have another member with us
and this is the smallest place and you said it's pet-free it is pet friendly so st mark's place fun
neighborhood right by you know new york university as well since it kind of takes over downtown but
definitely an awesome block lots of restaurants this is it this is it 14 st marks that's right
theo is excited okay look at this dog he's just like foaming and chomping at the bit to get in
let's go feel come on not bad this is actually a pretty impressive entryway so this is the nicest
building that we've been to so far diego's gonna go in there and film our reactions to seeing this
but don't say anything when you get in there i wanna just i wanna have the reaction you good
to go in no let him get in position get as far back as you can all right all right let's do this
this can't be legal this is it this is it man what what we're home what is the square footage
of this this is let me get the tool there's a bunk bed here without the bottom bunk we've got
a loft going on a sink i guess this is the kit is there a bathroom it's out in the hallway oh my
gosh the hallway bathrooms eat okay i don't know what to say you could never live here with a dog
that's what i'm thinking it was a tiny dog but could you imagine this dog living in here
the door almost hits the sink and this is your i mean this is the kitchen you have a little
mirror here medicine cabinet this tiny sink with storage underneath mini fridge microwave
comes with a tv at least we have the bunk bed which is pretty awesome good use of space true
the loft above so my shelving closet this tube fluorescent lighter high school gymnasium
wow just for some perspective i wanted a shot of myself and theo in the frame i can actually go and
put my arm almost across the entirety of this apartment this is six like six eight wingspan
so this is probably just under seven feet cash is gonna take some measurements but also check
this out this is just a reality of living in a place like this if you're a tall person just
i mentioned in the last place having that natural sunlight this is a true alleyway view there is i
mean there's a little light we're on the top floor but you look down it's just nothing to brick it's
great if you have no friends yet if you're still working on friends if you don't have them yet this
saves you some money what does this place go for so right now these are between 1095 and 11.95 and
these are rent yeah people rent these the factors people willing to pay 1100 a month i mean this is
smaller than a college dorm do you want to know something crazy that i didn't tell you about this
apartment i lived in this exact unit in 2007. this exact unit i lived here and i had like all this
stuff i tried to move in and none of it fit so i had to throw away half my furniture and at the end
of the day i had the bed which was up and i had like a little futon which is where he's standing
over by the window my clothes i had enough like a slim enough wardrobe that it did fit in the closet
like i just when i was like 22 i just want to be in the city but you made it work i made it work
so if you're watching this and you're looking to move to the city it is definitely possible don't
say the rent's too high excuses if you want to move here bad enough and you have that dream it's
right here contact cash all the places that we've shown in this video cash is actually renting out
so they're all down below in the description along with cash's contact information if you like this
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anything rentals this guy can help you out there and with that we'll see you in the next video