Rental that has no bathroom or kitchen but still costs $1,200 per month sparks outrage as realtor is seen touching both walls at same time

A rental home in New York City without a bathroom or kitchen is up for grabs for $1,200 a month.

A now-viral video of the “insanely small” apartment has sparked outrage among viewers on social media over the exorbitant rental price. Some even compare it to a prison cell and suggest it should be illegal.

Realtor Omer Labock took viewers on a tour of the Midtown Manhattan apartment in a TikTok video, saying, “The smallest apartment in Manhattan can be found in this building, so let’s check this out; it’s really crazy.’

He then humorously touched both ends of the unit at the same time, reflecting the compact dimensions of the space.

“I’m not the biggest guy, but I can almost touch both sides of this. “I think we can consider this the absolute smallest apartment in Manhattan and the total rent is $1,200 per month,” he said.

Opening the door to the third floor, Labock revealed a small, bare room with a freestanding wardrobe and a lone window overlooking the fire escape.

‘Yes, this is the whole story; you can’t make this up,” he said.

The bathroom is located down the hall, outside the unit, and is shared with other residents of the building.

“Now you’re probably wondering where the bathroom is,” he said on camera. “You need to leave the apartment and enter this shared space.”

‘Would you like to live here?’ Labock asked viewers in the caption.

The apartment, which lacks both a bathroom and a kitchen, has sparked outrage over the monthly rental price.

One user expressed his disbelief in the comments: ‘This should be illegal. Which bed goes in here? Why is it $1200? This is depressing.’

Another comment read: ‘Isn’t that illegal? There are chickens on free-range farms with more space.”

“Prison cells are bigger than this!” a third user commented.

Another joked: “Call 911 now.”

This summer, rents in New York City reached a new high of an average of $5,588 per month in July, a 30 percent increase since 2019 and 9 percent higher than last year, when rent was $5,113, the report said.

The eye-watering cost of renting an apartment in Manhattan comes despite the fact that the city’s population has declined since the pandemic.

The borough’s population decreased by 400,000 between June 2020 and June 2022, according to U.S. Census data. Experts say that despite some recovery, the population is likely still below 2019 levels.

Average monthly rent is now up 9 percent since the same time last year, marking a new record for the city.

The average rent, $4,400 per month, and the average price per square foot of $84.74, also reached a new record, according to a new report from Miller Samuel and Douglas Elliman.

In June last year, another unit without a bathroom reached the milestone at $2,350 per month.

An 800-square-foot, non-bathroom apartment in New York City rented for $2,350 a month after its prime Greenwich Village location sparked a bidding war.

The third-floor rental on West 11th Street went viral on TikTok in December after real estate agent Omer Labock gave a tour of the tiny space and said it had to be the “tiniest apartment” he had ever seen. At the time, it was listed for $1,975 per month.

“New York is a special place,” he captioned the shocking 32-second clip, which was reposted to Reddit last month.

The average price of a studio in Manhattan in July was $3,278 and a three-bedroom apartment was $10,673.