Too Rich,Too Skinny

摘要

A few weeks ago, the front page of the real-estate section of The New York Times featured two articles. One described the construction of the city's first "micro apartment" block, its teeny units ranging from 260 to 360 square feet. The second reported the fastidious mock-up in a Brooklyn warehouse of a single apartment, a prototype for those in a hyper-luxe tower rising on West 53th Street in Manhattan. The faux flat-which could probably fit 10 micro-units inside it-was estimated to cost a cool million and will be trashed after the finishes have been suitably agonized over. Here was the income gap made concrete, the tale of two cities, living large and living really, really small. I dream of Gini (Coefficient)!