Sale at 34 Bethune Street

I don't think it's 200 sq ft

Open House may want to adopt hospital rules. "2 at a time please."

Where would one put one's clothes, in the (tiny) bathtub??

I still think some idiot will pay $250K. Listing price, of course is ridiculous.

Cheapest apt for rent in West Village is $1700. Going to go up 5% a year too, there's no more land.

Here you have a $300 maintenance and $800 to borrow $325K at 3%, leaves you at $1100 a month. Add in tax benefit at 35%, you're down to $700. Apt appreciates by 3% a year, giving you the $700 back.

You'd be an idiot not to live there.

If you think about it as the size of a hotel room and use it for a pied a terre, its not that unbearable. And I could see some trendoid who "only comes home to sleep" trading space for proximity to the Meatpacking District (fka the Meat Market but that's when it was a working market not a playground) although I don't know where they could possibly store the wardrobe (clothes and shoes) necessary to maintain that lifestyle especially if one needed a totally different look for the day job that financed it.

For a pied a terre, Nada is dead on.
For $1100 a month, one has a kitchen, a bathroom and a bed in manhattan, the west village no less.
Really can't beat that.