Here's What A 68-Square-Foot Apartment Costs In NYC

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The New York City real estate market continues to parody itself. As apartments get smaller, rents somehow rise — and one Upper West Side home has taken this trend to the extreme.

A 68-square-foot studio in an Upper West Side brownstone has hit the rental market for $950 per month, according to a real estate listing with Citi Habitats. The single room occupancy residence is located in a building on West 70th Street between Broadway and Columbus Avenue.

Other perks include: Sharing a bathroom with four other apartments, a twin-sized loft bed accessible by a ladder, a broker's fee charging 15 percent of the annual lease and the fact that it's a fifth-floor walkup.

At least the location's nice.

The real estate listing — which also appeared on other listing sites such as StreetEasy — provoked some puzzled reactions on the New York City Reddit page. One Reddit commenter said that the Upper West Side home resembled the living situations of their Sicilian grandparents after immigrating to New York City.

"We have now come full circle. My grandfather and his parents, newly arrived from Sicily, had to share a bathroom in the hallway with other tenants in a Manhattan tenement. I can guarantee they actually lived in less cramped conditions than these," miss_printed said on Reddit. "How fun."

Check out photos of the tiny apartment.

Photo by Google Maps street view