From the article:<p>&gt;Apartments in New York City ordinarily can be no smaller than 400 square feet, but the city waived those restrictions for this development.<p>&gt;Small apartments are not new to New York. Thousands of apartments that predate the city’s 1987 zoning restrictions would be considered micro units by today’s standards.<p>So they basically are just moderately sized studio apartments, and the only notable bit is that they&#x27;re the first new construction moderately sized studio apartments in nearly thirty years.