Funny you mention that. I lived in a great 1BR apartment in Murray Hill for $2,600 up until about 18 months ago. My unit was relatively large, on the 7th floor

Funny you mention that. I lived in a great 1BR apartment in Murray Hill for $2,600 up until about 18 months ago. My unit was relatively large, on the 7th floor of an elevator/doorman building, we had a communal roof deck, laundry in building, and south facing light. The downside was that it was on 34th st so a bit noisy and the unit was probably 30+ years old so appliances were kind of crappy, but everything was well maintained. Basically it was an affordable upper-middle class oasis in a sea of luxury apartments. The crazy thing is that the building could not be built today. It was 20 stories with about 15 units per floor and according to the recent NYTimes article it is no longer approved for the zoning of that neighborhood. I'm not sure we need microapartments as much as we need to look at where people can afford to live today and clone that over and over. That's not the recipe for all of NYC, but in a neighborhood like Murray Hill where every other building is huge, why not just build out even more?