Only in New York and third world countries. Leave it up the New York Post to find us the New Yorkers who store their clothes and shoes in fridges, sinks and stoves and get them to admit it. Hopefully this is only happening in some of the city’s apartments that rent for less than $1,000. Here’s their stories:
“Oh my gosh, who doesn’t use their kitchen as a closet in New York?” quips design writer Jen Salgado, 37, who used to store vintage leather handbags and canvas totes in her fridge (yup, it was plugged in) prior to renting her “country home” — a 4-by-4-by-4-foot space in Manhattan Mini Storage down the street from her 300-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment in the West Village.
Mike Nouveau, 26, a downtown deejay with a shoe fetish, never eats at home. “My kitchen is really just a wall of my 225-square-foot apartment,” he says. So he unplugged his refrigerator and in went his shoes. “I have three rows of shoes in there, and they fit perfectly.”
Zandile Blay, a 27-year-old fashion writer, decided to get rid of her refrigerator entirely.“I replaced it with a huge full-length mirror and got a small beverage cooler for my wine and Coronas,” she says. She did, however, keep her oven, where she stores her jeans and high-heel shoes. “I called up my super and asked him to turn the gas off,” she says, “so I wouldn’t accidentally burn my clothes. And after asking me twice in Spanish, then once in broken English if I was sure, he went ahead and agreed to my request.”
If you see somebody walking down the street with grill marks on the back of their sweater……….
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talk about being fresh … (c’mon, is this thing on.)
HA-I saw this stupid nonsense in yesterday’s paper and thought , are they fo’ real?.. How ’bout the chick with the Chanel bag etc in the kitchen cabinets? My first thought was instead of all the designer shit upgrade your living space, no?
No… just no.