New York has always bragged that it’s worth every penny you spend. But right now, there’s a viral apartment montage that’s making a lot of people question that claim. The video zips through a bunch of TikTok-style apartment tours. Each one is more ridiculous than the last, and somehow all these places cost between $3,000 and $3,500 a month.
People are moving to NYC to pay $3000 dollars a month to live between the cracks in the drywall.They don’t even realize hamsters got better homes. pic.twitter.com/3nelxhxWHn
— aka (@akafaceUS) April 27, 2026
You get a woman squeezing past exposed brick into what she cheerfully calls her “little shoebox NYC apartment.” She has just decided to accept how bizarre it is. Then a guy sits on a bed that takes up his entire room. He barely has to move to touch the door. One woman films the “Smallest Bathroom in NYC,” where the sink is literally built over the toilet, just like in jail or an RV.
There’s another clip with a woman eating from a bowl, wedged between a countertop and the fridge in a kitchen so narrow it looks like a hallway. Someone points out their bedroom door, but it’s hard to tell what counts as a room at all…