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Christopher Robbins
Published Aug 7, 2013
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Where will we live when the hedge fund managers and young creative digital tech poet-coder innovators drive up the rent in our "Micro-Units" to 10,000 B£oombergs/month? This man who has carved a living space out of a dumpster in Brooklyn inadvertently gives us a glimpse of where we might lay our Future Heads.
HGTV [rinses mouth with water, spits] profiled Gregory Kloehn, who bought a commercial dumpster for $2,000, and added a sink, stove, toilet, shower, and grill. The dumpster even has retractable windows, for when you want to surprise your significant other with a little ray of morning sun to accompany breakfast in bed, which is also your kitchen, bathroom, living room, toilet, dumpster.
"People say, 'Well, I don't even barbecue at my house. You got a barbecue in a garbage can, and a little minibar.' I think they're just surprised that someone would take something like this and spend enough time to make it a home."
Minibars: what can't they do?
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michael bloomberg
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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