micro-size me in Manhattan!

Micro-Hotels Offer NYC Visitors Cheap, Chic Digs | NPR

The micro-hotel looks like a luxurious boutique hotel. It has a cafe with designer decor, a terrace and a concierge, and it is right in the center of midtown.

Even with the downturn, he says, occupancy ranges between 85 and 90 percent.

The rooms are tiny, with bunk beds, an iPod docking station, a light and a small TV above each bed. If you want to read or watch TV when your friend is sleeping, you can do that. The bathroom is down the hall.

...the atmosphere at The Jane, housed in a building more than a century old, is straight out of Jules Verne: old-fashioned bellhops, huge keys, a backward clock, moose heads on the wall — and long-term tenants, 60 of them, who pay less than $700 a month.

"I call it the hotel at the end of the world," says Samuel Gaedke, who has lived at The Jane for four years. "If you want to disappear off the face of the Earth for a little while, it is a good place to come to."

The Jane's single hotel rooms are $75 a night.

< A single room at The Jane harks back to early 20th century digs that bawdy sailors rented for 25 cents a night.

Looks like the age of supersizing is over. Bye bye, Hummer! Don't let the door hit your fossil fuel sucking fat arse on your way out!

With all the techno advancements in the world shrunken down to fit inside the Blackberry, G1 or iPhone in your belt holster as you listen to your music via your tiny new iPod Nano that's practically indiscernible from your tie clip or cuff link while you take videos with your pocket-sized Flip camera to upload to YouTube from your very small HP netbook with its 10 inch screen, the next inevitable step is to check into a micro-hotel after disembarking from your electric Mini Cooper.

For some strange, mysterious reason I suddenly have this annoyingly seductive urge to re-visit New York City (hadn't been there since late 2000, pre-9/11). I seriously miss The Met, MoMA, The Whitney, and just walking, Walking, WALKING across Manhattan, sucking in the air, the smells, the sights, sounds, and bustling. And New Yorkers look so chic and so real compared to Angelenos.

The Jane...$75 a night, eh? Hmmmm.....*drools*