Stroll next door to SoHo Woman on the Park, 32 West 40th Street, (212) 391-7263, a tiny shop in a condominium tower called Bryant Park Place.
Fong moves on, scrolling through half a dozen homes, each smaller than the last, until she arrives at a tiny, 500 sq ft condominium on the east side of the city.
He owns two one-bedroom units at the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne and several other properties in the area, including two oceanfront condominiums in this tiny city on the edge of North Miami Beach for which he paid a total of $1 million.
A few blocks away, where the Belle Shores Condominium is under construction, tiny flakes of white Styrofoam floated on the ocean breeze one recent sunny afternoon, thinly coating the neighborhood's lawns and its cats.
Recent census figures indicate that the population rose 13percentt over the last 10 years to 23,643, while condominium complexes, strip malls, and large homes crammed onto tiny plots of land have sprouted seemingly everywhere.
From the tiny studio on West 24th Street, he can see directly into million-dollar condominiums in the Chelsea Mercantile building.
As evidence, he often points to the tiny, slow-moving devices he has built to clean the floors and windows in his condominium apartment.
As the Lower East Side continues its evolution from tenements to boutique hotels to $1 million condominiums, the neighborhood's retailing has moved from pushcarts to artisans in tiny spaces to more established designers selling higher priced goods.
On average, two-bedroom condominiums sell for $350,000 to $700,000, but Mr. Pilz said that weekenders often look to tiny, lower-priced units.
