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this sits right next to SRO's and all that. 145th between amsterdam and broadway is sketchy. man oh man. you all don't know what you're getting yourselves into. lol
this sits right next to SRO's and all that. 145th between amsterdam and broadway is sketchy. man oh man. you all don't know what you're getting yourselves into. lol
Basically (it varies by local code) these are dwellings where individual have a room which may or may not have some type of minor cooking facilities (hot plate, microwave oven, etc...) or not. It may have a toilet or not. Usually a shared kitchen (for the entire floor or a series of rooms) is the normal along with bathrooms including showers/bath tubs.
In NYC and elsewhere SROs were often former hotels and still operated pretty much as such. Hotel rooms usually do not have cooking facilities and depending upon when they were built not even in room baths/showers, so converting an old hotel into a SRO was a natural way to make money.
This explains why all over the Westside from the Village to UES, LES, Chinatown/the Bowery, etc... you once found large numbers of SROs. These most always were often old hotels that went up in a different era and thus couldn't compete with new offerings.
You saw lots of SROs in Chelsea and West Village because at one time the docks/ports down there were very busy. Crews/sailors often needed a place to lay up for several weeks until they sailed again. Renting an apartment was out, and traditional modern hotels are expensive.
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