"But now you can find legitimate, nice apartments with true bedrooms, as opposed to closets played off to be actual rooms".
In June 2017, the apartment above Ms. Tainow's finally hit the market: The former one-bedroom was now the "BEST TRUE 3 BEDROOM apartment in the West Village area," according to the StreetEasy listing.
CONS: The apartment is on the fourth and fifth floors of a walk-up and is without a true master bedroom with a bathroom.
"True one bedroom," "spacious," "comfy," "sexy," "cool," "amazing," "super amazing," even nouns as seemingly uncontestable as "closet" and "light": all are ruthless attempts to manipulate a population in which the prospect of hardwood floors buffed to a high gloss inspires a degree of lust beyond that of mere human flesh.
It is not uncommon in New York, for example, to shop for a junior one-bedroom or a convertible one-bedroom, neither of which is a true one-bedroom at all but really a studio that already has or can have a wall put up to create a bedroom.
They knew they couldn't afford a true two-bedroom, so they planned to erect a temporary wall in a large one-bedroom, priced no higher than $2,700 a month.
In most cases, "true two-bedrooms were just too far out," Ms. Smithen said.
The place I ended up getting was the first true one-bedroom I looked at.
Though she was not unhappy there, for the long term what she really wanted was a true one-bedroom.
The 1,800-square-foot 1,800-square-foot 1,800-square-footould require redesigning to become apartmentree-bedroom, he said.
