"Living Quarters? Try Eighths."

Photo by Chang W. Lee, New York Times

"Drew, 19, right, who didn't want his last name published, came to look at the $35 a month mattress for rent. Nick Freeman, a Pratt student, on the mattress, acted as a kind of broker for the mattress." [nytimes.com]

"Into the circus that is the housing market in New York came an online ad: $35 for a mattress stuffed into a hole in the wall. It got a dozen potential takers." [nytimes.com]


Haha, I love this and its illustration of how desperate living space in the city is, not to mention how amazing it would be to rent a mattress coming out of the wall, and how I would absolutely do it.