It’s a Small World

In New York City, where micro units were once known as “tenements,” we now have a museum show about this reinvented housing type. Currently on view at the Museum of the City of New York, the exhibition, Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers, represents the confluence of two civic initiatives. One was a call from the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a nonprofit focused on housing policy, to develop new apartment types for a changing and growing city.