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Here is the “worst apartment ever in New York”: it rents for more than 1,300 euros per month (video)

A video supposed to present the “worst apartment ever seen” in New York, a small room rented for 1,650 dollars, ignited the TikTok social network, where it was viewed 21 million times.

With the bathroom and toilets on the landing, the potential tenant will only be able to enjoy a small closet in the one room of this cramped apartment which costs the equivalent of 1,370 euros per month. Contacted by AFP, the author of the video, a real estate agent, did not want to give either the address of the studio, which he located in the district of Greenwich Village, or the name of its owner.

Nevertheless: posted on the New York City Realtor account, and titled “Worst apartment ever in NYC !!!”, the video garnered 2.6 million “likes” and comments galore on TikTok. “So in plain language, you get a closet“, wrote Helen Blondel.”Harry Potter lived in better“, outbid Adam Granger.

The average rent in Manhattan was $ 3,790 last October, according to the Rent Cafe site, for an average area of ​​65 m2, when the apartment in the video appears to be barely 10.

For Cameron Knowlton, the real estate agent who filmed the video, the apartment, free since October, should nonetheless find a buyer quickly, even if the ad is only circulating among real estate agents and has not been posted on any major site. real estate ads. Greenwich Village “is one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the world so there will be people to rent it“, he assured.

Several other much more spacious, en-suite studios at similar rents are however offered in Greenwich Village on major real estate sites.

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