check this out folks. i found this photo in a craigslist apartment ad for my neighborhood. i saw something like this a while back on apartment therapy or something. it's actually kind of totally brilliant, but damned if it isn't ugly. and odd. and the door implies the bathtub is somewhere else in the apartment. not a totally uncommon thing in nyc where the kitchen bathtub can be appealingly quaint (especially in a place described as a 'tenement'), but for 1700 dollars, it seems a little, um, inappropriate.  makes me wonder about the deregulation of the apartment and whether they are even legally -allowed- to charge that much for it. clearly no renovation has been done in quite some time, and shoddy overpriced renovations are usually how they get the rent raised for regulated apartments. maybe it was never regulated, but that seems unlikely too.

ah, new york city real estate. how i loathe thee. i can't believe i live in a town where having A closet (and i mean literally just one closet) is luxurious.