How a $300 Portable Washing Machine Makes New York City Actually Livable

Living in New York City brings its fair share of rewards and challenges. For me, the biggest continuous struggle--even after almost a decade in NYC--was doing laundry (#blessed, I know). When I lived in Brooklyn, my building had a basement laundry room, but it was creepy down there and I learned the hard way that the super locked the room at 9 p.m.--with my wet clothes trapped overnight in a washing machine. Then I moved to Manhattan (and still live there) where most buildings don't offer laundr...