{"id":178362,"date":"2026-03-28T19:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178362\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:33:34","slug":"prospective-tenants-line-up-to-view-rent-controlled-brooklyn-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178362\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective Tenants Line Up to View Rent-Controlled Brooklyn Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dozens of prospective tenants waited in a long line for the chance to view a rent-controlled studio apartment in Brooklyn on Saturday morning, March 28, footage shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The apartment, <a href=\"https:\/\/streeteasy.com\/building\/138-montague-street-brooklyn\/11?utm_campaign=rental_listing&amp;utm_medium=share&amp;utm_source=web&amp;lstt=in9tpQGvXzph0xjQVJ4yS0pq59w99Lpc_MEVeDvuOSzsym4oGjyBgfKmVMJQwNENnm0THJeFC1nqJdS0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:located;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;located&quot;}\" class=\"link \">located<\/a> on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, would be rented at $1,675 per month to a tenant chosen through a lottery system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartments.com\/rent-market-trends\/new-york-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apartments.com,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apartments.com,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Apartments.com,<\/a> the average monthly rent for a studio apartment in New York City is more than $3,300.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage taken by Vaishnavi Naidu shows New Yorkers waiting in line at the open house on Saturday morning. Credit: Vaishnavi Naidu via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of prospective tenants waited in a long line for the chance to view a rent-controlled studio apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,6748,99,21059,9,24,63,5564],"class_list":["post-178362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-heights","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-footage-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-studio-apartment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}