275 Park Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Compass
Listen, it’s not as though getting an apartment in New York has ever been easy. But one could probably argue it has never been harder than it is right now. The most god-awful studios are regularly renting for thousands and thousands of dollars with lines of interested tenants out the door. Here, we’ll find the actually worth-looking-ats, the actually worth-the-costs, and the surprisingly affordable-for-those-parquet-floors from around the internet.
This week I looked at Brooklyn (because I’m a masochist who never learns her lesson), and listen, I tried my best. But I did come up with this thesis, spoken-word poem, or whatever you want to call it:
Brooklyn. The borough of compromises.
You can have windows, or you can have bedrooms.
You can have original details, or you can have a bathroom that’s been assaulted by the Home Depot tile section.
You can have a neighborhood you want, or you can have some money left over to take a train to that neighborhood.
The love-it-or-leave-it Brooklyn. Welcome to another week of Brooklyn real estate.
Send help, maybe? Or just enjoy the offerings. Until next week!
$4,100, 3-bedroom (pictured below): Good bones and a beautiful building (built in the Queen Anne style in the 1920s). The apartment is a little worse for wear in the bathroom department and decidedly lacking in the window department, but it’s the best deal I’ve seen in the neighborhood in quite some time.
$6,275, 2-bedroom (pictured at top): If you’re looking to get off the beaten path, then an industrial loft across from the Navy Yard could be for you?
90 Clinton Avenue.
Photo: EXR
$3,850, 1-bedroom (pictured below): Not for the imagination-challenged. Definitely needs an inspired eye and a little elbow grease.
84 Butler Street.
Photo: H L Dynasty Real Estate Corp
$6,000, 2-bedroom (pictured below): Cozy duplex with exposed beams and an attic bedroom that the listing suggests you use as your office. I say bedroom (but you might need a chamber pot up there).
319 Union Street. Photo: SERHANT.
319 Union Street. Photo: SERHANT.
$15,000, 5-bedroom: Divide this by five, and it’s only $3,000 a month per person. Just make sure your kids are gainfully employed and understand the importance of paying rent on time.
$7,250, 3-bedroom: The windows are nice, and it’s a brownstone in stroller heaven, but if I’m not mistaken, this is a single floor … that they’re somehow calling a three-bedroom … I hope for all our sakes that I’m wrong, but you might need to go and investigate yourself.
$8,950, 2-bedroom (pictured below): I’m done expending energy to be outraged by the prices in this neighborhood. I’m ready to roll over and passively admire homes like this one, with its strange but intriguing layout, owing to the building’s former life as a public school. Now it’s a bachelor pad. Every turn is unexpected and welcomed, and there’s a fireplace. Okay?
174 Pacific Street. Photos: Sotheby’s International Realty.
174 Pacific Street. Photos: Sotheby’s International Realty.
$7,800, 3-bedroom (pictured below): If you’re going to charge me $7,000-plus, you’d better be promising an entire house that’s grand in every way. Like this freestanding mansion with herringbone floors, stained glass, and 18 windows on the first floor alone.
$4,250, 3-bedroom: Lovely waxed parquet, a blinding amount of natural light. The maybe-faux marble in the bathroom is also somewhat blinding, as is the amount of track lighting.
827 Prospect Place. Photos: Courtesy the owner.
827 Prospect Place. Photos: Courtesy the owner.
$3,750, 2-bedroom: Parlor-floor apartment — someone got a little handsy with the renovation, but there are traces of charm left over.
$2,895, 1-bedroom: A totally acceptable co-op in an elevator building with prewar-style details, including built-in shelving and rounded doorways. (Though the building dates to 1942, so perhaps we should call them mid-war details?)
$2,100, 1-bedroom: If there were an Emmy award for Best Lobby, this building would definitely definitely be in the running with its prewar splendor. The apartment itself is fine!
$2,150, 1-bedroom (pictured below): Cheap and far away — with parquets, sweetly arched passageways, and colorful ceramics in the bathroom.
2626 Kings Highway.
Photo: Apartment Rentals and Sales Realty LLC
$3,500, 2-bedroom (pictured below): Ground-floor apartment with charming stained glass and nice hardwoods. Grim bathroom, because life is about trade-offs!
191 17th Street.
Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate
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