I am immersed these days in "Downtown: My Manhattan," a wonderful book by Pete Hamill that has me thinking about city living and the history of Manhattan. Hamill describes living "over New York" in 1958 in a third floor apartment at 307 East Ninth St. His rent was $54 a month for an apartment shared with two others!

New Yorkers like Hamill are pros at small space living. I suspect they could teach a lot to the rest of the country, which will soon be witnessing the s ...

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