New Yorkers live in the smallest homes in America and, it turns out, rent some of the least storage space to go with them. Studios hover around 300 square feet and one-bedrooms rarely clear 700, yet the average New Yorker
Space is the most expensive thing you can buy in New York, and most renters are quietly paying top dollar to store boxes in it. That walk-in closet you fill with off-season coats and holiday decorations sits on the same
A gut renovation turns your home into a construction site, and drywall dust, stray paint, and contractors hauling ladders don’t mix well with a leather sofa or your grandmother’s dresser. Storage during a renovation is how New Yorkers keep their
A wine collector in Murray Hill kept four cases of Barolo in a hallway closet for three years, convinced that thick pre-war plaster walls would hold a steady temperature on their own. Then a August heat wave hit during a
When the Waldorf Astoria New York closed for what became an eight-and-a-half-year, $6 billion renovation, someone had to answer a less glamorous question than the one the architects were solving: where do you put the contents of a 1,400-room hotel