Leigh Kamping-Carder

Sometimes it seems like every block in the city is crawling with guys in hard hats, jackhammering away to build the next tower of overpriced condos. Well, not exactly. Some blocks are worse than others!

We never tire of peeking behind closed doors—​especially when those doors conceal teeny-tiny apartments that somehow work for their inhabitants. Not surprising, then, that we were smitten with this 242-square-foot studio in the West Village, documented over at Curbed NY, that manages to be quaint and functional at the same time.

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