An anonymous artist found an ingenious way to beat NYC rent.
For non-Taylor Swift New Yorkers, living in the city is a struggle -- it's cramped, it smells weird, tourists fill all the good parts and the rent is insane. Ask any starving millennials trying to decide if they can afford to buy both cereal and milk at Duane Reade and they’ll tell you that the cost of living in New York is 90% of their nightmares (the other 10% is split between bed bugs and Times Square on New Year's Eve).
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To fight rent prices and bring a bit of whimsy to the morning commute, an unknown New Yorker set up a cardboard living room on the N train this week. The setup included a cardboard chair, stove, dresser, rug and ottoman. We don't know much else except that the MTA didn't find the paper room, which means angry commuters probably destroyed it at some point.
When cardboard homes on the subway get out of control. Somebody give this person a job in construction. #ineedamiracle #onlyinNY #subwayartA photo posted by realtarik (@realtarik) on Nov 11, 2014 at 4:54am PST
Is cardboard subway furniture the future of city living? Ehhhhh, probably not.
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