{"id":255518,"date":"2026-06-04T18:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255518\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:40:16","slug":"inside-a-340-square-foot-nyc-apartment-full-of-secret-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255518\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a 340-Square-Foot NYC Apartment Full of Secret Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vintage Glass Handkerchief Vase<\/p>\n

Zara Striped Percale Pillowcase<\/p>\n

The jobsite, however, was in Tudor City, on Manhattan<\/a>\u2019s East Side. (Not that Magnes minded, of course.) \u201cBen is supersmart and creative, so I knew working with him would be fun; I knew he\u2019d be open to the unconventional and likely embrace it,\u201d Magnes explains in regard to Riskin, with whom Andrew goes back more than a decade. The home, a studio<\/a> apartment inside a century-old building, had great natural light. Its original steel casement windows and pine floor were also beautifully untouched.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing was really wrong with the apartment except that it hadn\u2019t been changed since the 1970s. Which meant it had a half fridge that you couldn\u2019t open because of the radiator placement, a convection oven, and 12 inches of counter space,\u201d says Riskin, who dismissed the shortcomings after deeming the cost of problems being less than the price of the apartment (the home was listed at under $400,000).<\/p>\n

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The breakfast table may be out of sight, but it\u2019s never out of mind. \u201cIt can be brought out to serve breakfast against the recessed banquette between the kitchen and windows,\u201d says Riskin of the custom design by Venturhaus<\/a>, a company that specializes in customized camper vans. It features collapsable legs that fold completely inside the tabletop, allowing it to be nestled out of view below the spice rack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vintage Glass Handkerchief Vase Zara Striped Percale Pillowcase The jobsite, however, was in Tudor City, on Manhattan\u2019s East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99545,99546,87613,15519,9,56,63,65,64,76030],"class_list":["post-255518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-clever","tag-clever-home-tour","tag-decoration","tag-domestic-home-tour","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-small-spaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}