Once upon a time, “snug as a bug in a rug” perhaps referred to a modest bug (or human being) being comfortably snug in an equally modest rug. Nowadays, with heightened frivolity and a spate of buggy individuals, the smaller the better…or, at least, the more newsworthy for being foolishly unique. Indeed, last August I published a post about a guy living in the city’s smallest townhouse. Today, there’s another contender for a fanciful superlative within the microscopic side of life category gaining their fifteen minutes of attention in Manhattan.
In the Morningside Heights section of this disproportionate metropolis, a couple with (I venture to guess) a lot of free time and cozy money on their hands reside in a 175-square-foot “microstudio.” The New York Post writes of Zaarath and Christopher Prokop and their Lilliputian abode which measures 14.9 feet long and 10 feet wide…costing a mere half million dollars, which the couple believe is a savings.
When you first see it, the first thing you say is, ‘Holy crap, this place is small,’ “said Zaarath, 37, an accountant for liquor company Remy Martin.”But when I saw it, all I could think of is, I can do something with this. This is perfect for us. We love it.”
Zaarath’s iota of perfection is situated on the 16th floor of a luxury apartment building at Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. While the building has a doorman, the Prokop’s can only access their apartment by means of a staircase on the 15th floor. In fact, this microstudio is a one-fourth section of what was once the servants’ quarters in the earlier part of the last century.
Of course, no Manhattan luxury apartment, no matter how costly and how truncated, would be complete without a view of Manhattan; the microstudio provides such a view for their viewing delight. The furnishings and supplies are at a bare minimum and primarily consist of a queen-sized bed (which takes up one- third of the space), a mini-fridge and hotplate (the pair doesn’t cook), a cappuccino maker and several containers of espresso (crucial to this sort of lifestyle) and related paraphernalia that’s luxuriously sparse and happily compact.
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