Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/03/04/new-york-city-woman-finds-hidden-empty-apartment-behind-her-medicine-cabinet.html
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A sawsall and a hammer and you have a larger apartment, and of course your rent goes up too…
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Curious if it’s a one-way mirror. My guess is that it’s just an apartment undergoing renovations.
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Approves.
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Considering the fresh drywall, exposed wiring and torn-up floors, yes, my guess as well.
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Wow… more than one unit in an apartment building. Who knew?!
They do need to close up that hole and insulate the wall though.
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That was interesting; and I like our intrepid explorer’s head-lamp and claw-hammer ensemble.
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While they’re at it, they could also install a medicine cabinet. The reason she was able to go exploring was because a mirror was mounted over the hole where a medicine cabinet would normally be found.
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I saw part two yesterday, where she goes through the hole, and then no part three dropped… I was on the edge of my seat, there. Jesus, I wasn’t expecting she would just go through the hole into a whole apartment. That’s not how it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to just be an interstitial space between apartments for plumber access (that also allows people to move between apartments):
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This really needs to be a Broad City episode
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Looks like some crazy subdividing there. She needs to ask the landlord to ensure some insulation is put on the other side of that wall - not just for air, but for sound, too.
(Off-topic. Using Brave Browser why do I always have to put Shields down to get Tik-Tok video embeds to work on BoingBoing? Can’t something be done about this? @orenwolf - as much an FYI as a genuine request for a fix.)
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By the end of the second video, I started to think this might be a put-on.
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Part three and four are available.
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No. Sorry. Your fight is with TikTok.
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I love shit like this.
Kind of bummed that it wasn’t a room she could take advantage us.
Reminds me of an old SF story, set in a super-overpopulated London. A guy has an “apartment” that is a part of a stair landing. Just a place for his bed and a dresser. One day he explores a loose board and finds . . . a sitting room, with windows and a chair. An unimaginably vast private space, by his standards.
Also reminds me of the time I opened a little hatch underneath the sink of a Holiday Inn. Tulsa OK, I think. It turned out to be access to a “wet wall,” a 3’ wide space that ran behind the rooms. I was at a corner, so the space went forward and to my right. Also up and down! No floor.
There were other hatches, to other rooms.
Also. ALSO . . . perched on the “sill” of my hatchway were two unopened bottles of cheap red wine.
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Ah ya! apartments in buildings share walls! why is anybody surprised by this? obviously, the vacant apartment is not being heated you just need to tell your landlord to close up the hole that the lazy carpenter failed to do
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If there’s a lamp post and a woman offering you Turkish Delight, get out of there!
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Is someone visiting the neighboring apartment and stealing the copper plumbing? It is incredibly unsafe that there is an access point between apartments.
This is crazy considering real estate values in NYC. Just sitting there, unused.
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