pain and suffering

a few of you have been curious: how has our year of moving from one temporary living suitation to another been working out so far?

Well, most of the housing options I found in our price range for this summer were about 700 sq ft of space on the 8th level of some unairconditioned building that most likely had a bakery or pizzeria (or some other oven-dependent business) on the ground floor.

But then we found this:

(a view from the hallway)

oh wait. let me take a few more steps backwards:

yes, that's more like it. But not quite giving the full picture just yet...

so let me take a few more...

there you go. much better.

and here is a view of the staircase to the upstairs loft area

with the extra bedroom and bath we do not use except for visitors.

yup, that's right, a veritable guest suite in NYC. Who knew such a thing existed?

And then there is the back patio:

with additional shared patio beyond that:

At this point you might be thinking to yourself, "Wait. But I thought that square footage in New York was notoriously limited!" Well, you are right, it is.

I guess because we stole it all.