NYC’s craziest basement apartment with outdoor space for $4,995 #nyclife

[lem]

Id be laying in bed at night looking at those bricks wondering if they are going to kill me.

[Bobrogers]

There's more light than most subterranean apartments, and it's nicely fitted out, but I'd still be concerned about the possibility of flooding. And it's not cheap!

[ucre]

*"The courtyard is your own space."*
Umm... no. It's NYC. That courtyard belongs to the rats.

[zeeqq]

Fabulous apartment but that location is a death trap. Hell no. I’d be so paranoid at night coming from work. No way.

[nicholea]

The smell from the garbage in summer would be something else! It feels like an Edgar Allan Poe apartment

[rrubio]

I'd rather commute to and from NJ and buy a house than rent for $5k.

[dricx]

The brick ceilings, is just too much like a crypt!

[jazziered]

These are the apartments that flood out and you die.

[femmebrulee]

I'm not a fan of basement apartments at all. It's dungeon like. Even with the windows and natural light. I think it's the bricked ceilings. Usually I'm a sucker for some original brick work but this is a little much. I'd just feel like I was the "Man in the Iron Mask" if I lived there. It might be better if they painted the bricks on the ceiling white.

[rpvitiello]

That looks like an illegal unit. The entire apartment is below the curb level. Usually they make the ground floor units a duplex with the below grade space to be legal.

[BudgetCZAR]

cold, damp, muggy and welcome to my city

[patdonnelly]

A bedroom near the garbage below street level=fear of rats.

[browneyez.]

The best part of this apartment has got to be not hearing the upstairs neighbors through the brick ceilings.🤗

[VoodooViking]

Def need some old wine barrels in there. Along with old Victorian medical equipment, a small alchemy lab. And an absinthe fountain. Even if it’s just for decor.

[lynnesimmons]

I'd be worried about falling bricks

[sharonkathryn]

The brick ceilings give me anxiety. I would be paranoid they would collapse at any moment.

[grizzlyfan]

It looks like a dungeon....but i'm sure there will be some takers. That out door space doesn't seem to have alot of light so it would probably be creepy at night...

[su]

Spiders hide well on bricks.. just not my cup of tea!

[shotjohnny]

You better not suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) if you take that apartment or you'll become depressed as hell after a while.

[ameliainva]

When your entire apartment is a firewall.