Microdwellings: Planning for the Even Tinier Apartments of NYC's Future

Before the end of the year , a team led by Monadnock Development will break ground on the city's first building full of micro-units at 335 East 27th Street, the result of a competition meant to bring the principles of good design to bear on local demographic change.

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