What may be New York City’s most bizarrely-shaped apartment went up for rent for $2,950 a month — but social media users have warned potential renters that there’s likely no convenient convenient way to set up furniture with all the oddly-angled walls, awkward corners, and twisting hallways.
Located in Manhattan’s uptown neighborhood of Washington Heights, Unit 1B at 25 Fort Washington Avenue features three bedrooms, exposed brick, and hardwood floors.
But it’s also shaped unlike any apartment most people have ever seen before, with a meandering front hallway and rooms made up of tight corners and unusable nooks.
The incredibly peculiar apartment has been the subject of countless jokes on TikTok, where commenters have compared it to a maze, a Sims house, and a congressional district.
In for a ride! What may be New York City’s most bizarrely-shaped apartment has gone viral on TikTok
The buildup! The video tour starts at the front door, which opens into a hallway — but facing a wall, so a person has to immediately turn left to walk down the hall
Keep going: The hallway is bizarrely long, and winds around several corners before getting to the living space
Twists and turns: The kitchen and living room area have walls that face at very strange angles
Inside: The living room features an open kitchen — a normal attribute of New York City apartments
There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the wall placement at all, and the living room has an awkward nook that would make it difficult to place furniture and decor
What do you even DO here? Even worse, one corner of the living room features a right acute angle
The apartment was put up for rent by Premier One Realty LLC on August 9 — and by the next day, was already earning unprecedented attention on social media.
The TikTok account RentNewYork shared a video tour of the space, which has since racked up 11 million views.
‘Tell me you can’t make a good layout without telling me…’ the video said, with a caption adding: ‘My head is hurting.’
The video tour starts at the front door, which opens into a hallway — but facing a wall, so a person has to immediately turn left to walk down the hall.
The hallway is bizarrely long, and winds around several corners before getting to the living space.
The living room features an open kitchen — a normal attribute of New York City apartments — but, strangely, well over four walls, with each seeming to go at an awkward diagonal angle.
Squeezed in: The tour continues down another oddly-shaped hallways, which leads first to a half bathroom with a diagonal wall across from the toilet
What a mess! The bedrooms are all bizarrely shaped, with walls ad odd angles that would make bed and dresser placement a nightmare
Good luck! It’s unclear where, exactly a bed would go in this room, which is tiny and shaped in an inconvenient way
Viral: The apartment was put up for rent by Premier One Realty LLC on August 9 — and by the next day, was already earning unprecedented attention on social media
Uptown: Located in Manhattan’s uptown neighborhood of Washington Heights, Unit 1B at 25 Fort Washington Avenue features three bedrooms, exposed brick, and hardwood floors
This creates several acute-angled corners and tiny nooks that are impossible to use, and would make furniture placement quite difficult.
In fact, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the wall placement at all.
The tour continues down another oddly-shaped hallways, which leads first to a half bathroom with a diagonal wall across from the toilet.
Also down the hallway are three bedrooms, where the walls likewise seem to have been built at odd angles.
Anyone keen on feng shui would likely be in for a hard time, since it’s unclear how even a bed and dresser could fit comfortable in the first two bedrooms.
Shockingly enough, the listing changed to unavailable before the end of the month, making it likely that someone snapped it up.
What in the world? Commenters are utterly baffled by the odd layout, with many cracking clever jokes about how it is designed
But commenters are utterly baffled by the odd layout.
‘Someone said they wanted “a cute apartment,” and the designer heard “acute apartment,’ wrote one.
‘Someone said amaze me, architect heard “a maze,”‘ joked another,
‘Is this an apartment or a congressional district,’ quipped a third.
‘Why have 9 walls when you can have 37?’ asked an upbeat commenter.
Another imagined telling a guest how to find bathroom: ‘5th corner on the left, if you get to the room with 10 walls, you’ve gone too far, make a right and start over.’
‘Imagine coming home drunk and trying to find your room,’ wrote one more.
Several are unsure how the rooms are even usable, and what the architect could have been thinking
One person wanted to know: ‘How is every single room unusable?’
Several imagined how difficult it would be to find furniture to fit in the space — and how to arrange it.
‘I need to watch them put furniture in. Pivot pivot pivot pivot pivot pivot hahahaha,’ one commenter said.
One imagined that this is the result ‘when you get your architect degree from Wish,’ while another chimed in: ‘Not to brag, but my Sims houses looked like this.’
‘This is the house I have to run through in my dreams,’ said one more.