Studio With Shared Bathroom

12-16-2008, 06:35 AM

Actually, it's not that bad at all. It was either that or share a 2 bedroom with 3 people (living room is a bedroom for one of them). I HAD to live in the location due to work. I figured sharing a bathroom with 1 other person is better than 2.

It was a little unique because the studios were TINY, really cheap and with each their own entry to the hallway. They both connected to 1 bathroom.

First I had a really excellent bathroom-mate. No problems. The next one wasn't quite as clean, but also tolerable.

12-17-2008, 04:32 AM

I don't understand why this would be a better deal than just living with roommates. I looked at some SRO type buildings and most of them aren't better deals unless you're sharing the bath and kitchen with a ton of people.

It's usually as affordable to just get a 3 or 4 bedroom apartment and split with 3 or 4 roomies.

12-17-2008, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE View Post

Does the area have a lot of these kinds of places? Never heard of such a thing as this. In my part of California many people share an apartment, room mate situation. I would guess that is like having a shared bath. Didn't realize that a set up like this exists. When you say shared bath are you meaning just the bathtub or shower portion of the room? Do you have your own toilet, sink ect? Or is this more like renting a two bedroom one bath unit?

Some are individual rooms with the bathroom totally separate, outside the apartment. In the room, however, I do believe that most would have some form of sink, and have heard stories from old New Yorkers about now fashionable areas where some of the brownstones were SROs back in the day, some having a separate bathroom completely and others having partial bathrooms in the apartment. Not all of these carved up apartments were studios, either. There were some brownstones that were cut up into one and two bedroom apartments, yet the bath facilities were shared off a common hall, either full or partial. And, in some of the walk-up apartments, you have what's akin to a half bathroom, with the bath tub being a central fixture in the kitchen. If you've ever seen the Michelle Pfeifer movie, "Married to the Mob," her character lives in one of those apartments on the LES. Some of those still exist today.

And, even in the old SRO style, some can have their own bathroom, but it's outside via a locked door so that you have to leave the apartment, unlock your bathroom to get to it, and then go back to your apartment. Someone could live like this, but for how long would depend upon how long it took for the hassle to really get on their nerves, and how inexpensive the rent was relative to a unit with a bathroom.

12-17-2008, 09:39 AM

My first apartment in the city was a 6th-floor walkup on the UES (E. 75th Street) -- there was a clawfoot tub in the kitchen, and the "water closet" was in the hallway outside the apartment. When the building was constructed, two bathrooms were installed in the hallway on each floor, and were shared by all tenants. At some point, the two apartments on the west side of the building had small W/Cs installed in the apartment, and in the front apartments on the east side (my side) of the building, entrance to the bathroom was made by breaking through the wall between the apartment and the W/C.

Unfortunately, this couldn't be done for the rear east apartment (MY apartment) because the chimney for the boiler was located between the apartment wall and the wall of the W/C.

So, 75% of the apartments had "ensuite" bathrooms, but tenants in the rear corner apartment all had to go out into the hallway. Even though it was a private bath, it was still rather unnerving -- imagine sitting there doing one's business as a neighbor passes by in the hallway -- and I quickly learned not to drink too much in the evening, because I didn't want to have to get up in the middle of the night to relieve myself.

It was, to say the least, an interesting setup .....

12-17-2008, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by squeezeboxgal View Post

So, 75% of the apartments had "ensuite" bathrooms, but tenants in the rear corner apartment all had to go out into the hallway. Even though it was a private bath, it was still rather unnerving -- imagine sitting there doing one's business as a neighbor passes by in the hallway -- and I quickly learned not to drink too much in the evening, because I didn't want to have to get up in the middle of the night to relieve myself.

It was, to say the least, an interesting setup .....

Wow! A very unappealing situation. And as a young woman or young man, the concept of a bedpan would be even less gratifying!

12-17-2008, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE View Post

I guess having a tub in the kitchen makes it interesting when you want to get a way and take a hot bath while someone is cooking dinner. Holiday parties would take on a differant look as well. It would be easier to get dinner ready and give the kids a bath though. I could just see it now; "Don't come in the kitchen I am taking a bath. I don't care if you are hungry and want to eat before you go to work."

LOL -- Unfortunately, the apartment was set up so that you entered directly into the kitchen. The (very small) bedroom was to the left and the living room was to the right. There were no doors on either room, so anyone in the tub was pretty much visible to everyone else in the apartment.

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