Brooklyn studio apartment, actually a playhouse, rents for $500

Chris Spags Founder and Editor

Friends around the country often mock New Yorkers for our exorbitant rents for what amounts to the cliché “shoebox-sized apartment.” And while that’s true, you can still live decently if you’re smart about it. And then there’s the other side of the coin, like this “studio apartment” in Greenpoint, Brooklyn which is literally just a playhouse.

playhouse studio 150x214 Brooklyn studio apartment, actually a playhouse, rents for $500 That’s the studio there, pictured left.

According to the Craigslist listing, it’s located in someone’s back yard. The room is 8×10. While it doesn’t include a kitchen or bathroom, you are allowed “24-hour access to both” presumably in the main house and not in a separate play area housing an E-Z Bake Oven and a bedpan.

The listing also claims that tenants used it as a studio/office in the winter and that it has a “great vibe.” You can see the full Craigslist post (it’s been flagged for removal on there) at Gawker.

I’m not really an artist, despite how great my illustrations of stick figures with boobs may be, but I don’t know what kind of “great vibe” you’d get from living in what amounts to a shanty for several hundred dollars a month. You might as well be a hobo at that point. And even then, you’d be a hobo who’s bad at managing your finances, even by hobo standards. And a hipster hobo at that, arguably nature’s perfect monster.

Brooklyn’s Cheapest Studio Apartment: A Rubber Play House that Rents for $500/Month

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