Is this apartment in Murray Hill? Been looking for a new place lately, and one of the places I went to last night, the guy was still living there. It looked a lot like that. The listing was a "huge" 550 sq ft, actual apartment size was 174 sq ft (I measured it, this discrepency is sadly the norm for Manhattan, there must be some law that says they are allowed to claim up to triple the actual space because every single apartment is within 20 sq ft of 1/3 of what it is listed as), and in that 174 sq ft were crammed 13 filled outdoor trash bags, clothes, empty cans & bottles, pots & pans (not all clean) all over the place, including on the mattress (the mattress was on the floor, no bed), lots of other miscellaneous junk lying around. Mostly the smell of cigar smoke masked the other odors. And yes, the guy was living there. He was home in fact.
The standards have gone WAY down... this was one of 2 places I looked at last night which had running water. Saw other interesting space-saving innovations that I never would have thought of, like saving space by combining the kitchen & bathroom so you only need one sink. This way, if you want a beer while on the can, you can grab it out of the fridge RIGHT THERE! So sanitary...