• The city wants proposals for a pilot project to develop apartments in the 275- to 300-square-foot range on property it owns in Manhattan. It's a competition called "adAPT NYC."
• There are 1.8 million one- or two-person households in the city, officials said, and 1 million studio or one-bedroom apartments.
• For comparison, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's townhouse is 41 times the size of a micro unit, and a new Rikers Island jail cell is 70 square feet.

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A new competition launched by Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls for plans to develop dozens of so-called micro-units, studio apartments that go beyond cozy to downright compact: 275 to 300 square feet. ...