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" About a decade ago, right out of college, I visited my friend John in Manhattan. We ordered pizza that night, and the following morning I tried to heat up the leftovers. But I couldn&amp;#039;t get the oven to work. How do you turn the oven on, I asked John, who had been living in his one-bedroom apartment for about six months. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know,&amp;quot; he replied. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never tried to use it.&amp;quot; The young urban male \u2014 or female, for that matter \u2014 doesn&amp;#039;t need a place to cook or entertain; he needs a place to sleep, fck, and shower. Privacy is nice, too. That&amp;#039;s why micro-apartments, which are now being developed in some of the nation&amp;#039;s major cities, are such a godsend. On Jan. 22, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, waving zoning restrictions that had mandated all new apartments be larger than 400 square feet, announced that 55 micro-units would be built on East 27th Street, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. The units will be between 250 square feet and 370 square feet, with rents between $973 and $1873 depending on the renter&amp;#039;s income. That may sound like a lot for such a small space, but the average price for a studio apartment in a non-doorman building in Manhattan is $2,282.  Meanwhile, San Francisco approved the development of even smaller micro-apartments \u2014 each only 220 square feet and starting at $959 a month. And Boston has approved 300-square foot units. All of the units will have the basic essentials: bed, bathroom and micro-kitchen. The aesthetic is less exploited-Dubai-labor bunk than Star Trek living quarters. There are cheaper options for big-city living \u2014 find roommates, live in the outer boroughs. But micro-apartments are such an obvious solution for young professionals who want to live in the heart of the city that it&amp;#039;s a wonder it&amp;#039;s taken so long for them to arrive. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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