Apartment:

• Large one bedroom (approximately 1,100 square feet)
• Very high ceilings (ten feet, no joke)
• Air conditioning in living room and bedroom
• Third floor in a five story elevator building
• Full size bathtub
• Beautiful wood floors
• Insane amount of closet/storage space (you will never have to throw anything away!)

Building:

• East 30th between Lexington and Third Avenues
• 100 walk score, 100 transit score, 80 bike score
• Walking distance to Grand Central and Penn Station, Madison Square and Union Square and the United Nations and NYU hospital
• Closest subway: 6 train at 28th and Park, or 33rd and Park (five minute walk to either)
• Closest supermarkets: Trader Joe’s at 31st and Third, or Fairway at 30th and Second (five minute walk to either), or... there are a ton of supermarkets in this neighborhood
• Secured entry with intercom
• Dog friendly
• Elevator
• Live-in superintendent
• Additional storage for rent in the building, but I can’t imagine anyone living in this apartment and needing more storage space

So wait, just how big is a 1,100 square foot apartment?

• I had a king size bed in the bedroom, and I could have fit a second king size bed in there, if I’d wanted to.
• I used some Ikea shelving to divide the living room in half, one side for my library and the other side to sit on my three-seater couch and watch movies on my projector, and never felt cramped.