By Stephen Jacob Smith 4/04 3:30pm

Doll Houses

The winning proposal by Monadnock Dev., Actors Fund Housing Dev. Corp. and nARCHITECTS.

More Micro-Apartments! City Seeking Developers For New Sites

New York’s first micro-apartment building hasn’t even broken ground yet, but the city is already planning more. At a luncheon hosted by the Citizens Housing Planning Council today, Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Matthew Wambua announced that new requests for proposals will be issued for more micro-apartment sites.

“We are considering RFPs for two or three micro-unit developments later this year,” a HPD spokesman told The Observer after the event. “We’re in the process of vetting a number of city-owned sites, and RFP guidelines will be tailored to the chosen sites.” Read More

By Matt Chaban 1/22 12:17pm

Prefabulous

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The Little House That Could

Would You Live in One of Mayor Bloomberg’s 300-Square-Foot Micro-Apartments?

New York apartments are notorious for being about as big as a shoe box, but those were typically 19th century tenements. Today, the Bloomberg administration brought tiny apartments into the 21 century with My Micro NY, the winning entry in a competition launched last July to create a miniature housing model for the city.

Currently, it is illegal to build a new apartment smaller than 450 square feet, but the new program seeks comfortable, attractive housing units between 250 and 375 square feet. The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development received 33 different entries for the project, which will be built on a city-owned site in Murray Hill. Read More