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Previously, you could only store your physical things in MakeSpace. Now you can store the intangible.

If you have a friend or family member in Chicago who could use extra breathing room, we’d love it if you could spread the word. Refer him/her using your invite link (generated once you sign up) and you both get $25 of MakeSpace credit.

ICYMI, Tim Ferris wrote about MakeSpace as a way of never checking luggage again (see: travel-caching). And just this week, Fox News published this list of five super helpful travel hacks and well, MakeSpace is one of them.

Imagine a place where you can live, work, and play all within the same building. A place where if you need an escape, you just take what is the equivalent of Willy Wonka’s Great Glass Elevator to a park upstairs. That’s the splendor of a Vertical City.

Figuring out how to make your tiny New York City apartment pop can be a serious challenge. That’s why sometimes it makes sense to call in a professional. When we were redesigning the MakeSpace office, we hit up our friends at Homepolish, and they sent over the wonderful Mary Davis to transform our space. Check out more pictures of our beautiful new space and an interview with the designer after the jump!

Have you ever wondered what New York City looked like in decades past? Us too! That’s why we’ve put together this collection of photographs cataloging the evolution of the Big Apple from 1950 to the end of the millennium. Take a look and decide which eras of NYC you’d like to have lived through!

MakeSpace Founder and CEO Sam Rosen has a blog post on Re/Code today addressing the myth that technology will displace the American workforce. He argues that more and more startups are shifting from producing apps to reimagining real world problems and the industries that solve them, and that as a result, we’ve seen considerable growth in blue-collar jobs in the United States.

Artist Bernardo Schorr envisions a bleak future of urban density so intense that most city-dwellers will be forced to live in 100 square-foot, windowless apartments. To address the challenges these small, windowless spaces will present, Schorr designed a futuristic solution: The Mixed Reality Living Space

What a pleasant surprise to open AM New York this morning only to find ourselves featured in the business section! 

Check it out! Friends of eBay Director Justin Stanwix gave us a shoutout on Fox Business this Monday. He and Deirdre Bolton both seem to love our brand of cloud storage. Pointing to UberRUSH, the company’s new carrier service, Stanwix suggests that stuff management is the future of retail  He told Bolton, “People want things, like, now and on-demand. It’s life on-demand and the cloud of stuff.”

MakeSpace is a small but growing startup with a mission to provide innovative and affordable storage to New York City and eventually the entire country.  Over the past couple of months, some of our largest competitors have taken notice of the new kid on the block.  For a startup, that’s both a good thing and a scary thing.  Good because it means you’re doing something right.  Scary because it means that you’re David and Goliath now has you in his sights.

Curbed New York has good news for all you world travelers based in New York City this morning! It looks like a ruling from a Manhattan Housing Court judge may have set a precedent allowing New Yorkers to legally rent out their apartments on Airbnb, despite the fact that New York City law explicitly prohibits subletting your apartment to someone for less than 30 days.