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For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We\u2019re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This week: a Forest Hills studio with a wood-burning fireplace and an ornate wreck in Staten Island.<\/p>\n
70 Remsen St., Apt. 10J<\/a><\/p>\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n This studio is on the tenth floor of a romantic 1929 Brooklyn Heights co-op building that has a lot of street-level appeal: marble columns<\/a> and leaded glass at the entrance, surrounded by tiny carvings of shields, lions, and even the face of the architect<\/a>. Then there\u2019s the apartment itself, a crisp space that the listing calls \u201ca minimalist dwelling.\u201d A wall of white custom cabinetry with a Murphy bed dominates the main space, a 14-by-14 square. There\u2019s more white cabinetry in a corner kitchen with a slim window and still more white finishes in the bathroom (glass shower, no tub). Hardwood floors are \u201cbrand new,\u201d according to the listing. The real draw here is the windows, which look southeast over the neighborhood with perhaps a sliver of river view.\u00a0The broker behind the listing, Nick Gavin, is known<\/a> for selling the lofts of art-adjacent downtowners and is advertising this one as \u201ccomparable to a luxury hotel space,\u201d suggesting his seller, a gallery director, might have used it as a pied-\u00e0-terre or a caretaker\u2019s pad.<\/p>\n 333 W. 57th Apt. 504 <\/a><\/p>\n Photo: Corcoran\n <\/p>\n The Westmore is on 57th between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, just off Columbus Circle, and went up in 1939<\/a>. The glass bricks and maritime curves of its old lobby have swung back into style, as have the patterned terrazzo floors; some of the new luxury buildings further down the block on Billionaires Row incorporate references to this style and period. There\u2019s similar vintage oomph in this fifth-floor unit, which has chevron parquet floors, iron balustrades, and a slightly formal dining area backed by a wall of mirrors. The living room, which is sunken with two steps down, is 22 feet deep with a curved bay window that stretches nearly the width of the room. The bedroom is 16 feet long and has its own big window, plus a small closet. At around 900 square feet, it is fairly large for a one-bedroom, and the monthlies of $2,463 cover a gym and bike parking. The kitchen is serviceable but small, so it may not work for a serious home cook.<\/p>\n 162 Beach 92nd St.<\/a><\/p>\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n This two-story, three-bedroom stand-alone house is one block off the beach at 92nd Street \u2014 the edge of the legal surfing zone<\/a> in the Rockaways. An outdoor shower in a side yard seems designed for rinsing off and stowing boards and wet suits, and if you pass the shower, you\u2019ll find a set of steps that lead up to a network of interconnected decks and balconies. A back deck would fit a big table and grill and connects to the kitchen. Upstairs, the front and back bedrooms each have a balcony. Below the front one is a classic front porch; the outdoor spaces, per the listing, add up to about 750 square feet. Inside, there isn\u2019t much character to the white-box bedrooms, but there are three of them and three bathrooms with penny-tile floors and white subway tile on the walls. The lack of fuss over the finishes suggests this might have been used as a short-term rental. But there\u2019s also a garage, so you can charge the Rivian while you\u2019re catching waves, then drive straight to the Financial District.<\/p>\n 20 Continental Ave., Apt. 6B <\/a><\/p>\n Photo: Sotheby\u2019s International Realty\n <\/p>\n Another Murphy bed, but it\u2019s an \u201cexquisitely designed Murphy bed,\u201d per the listing. It hides in a wood-fronted cabinet beneath a chandelier on a landing looking over a living room that appesrs more like a Disney palace than a studio in Queens. The 550-square-foot unit is in one of the neighborhood\u2019s Tudor Revival co-ops with casement windows and a wood-burning fireplace. The seller seems to have pushed the decor toward the turn-of-the-millennium Tuscan-villa look with sconces on sponge-painted burnt-sienna walls. But the bathroom is stylishly 1940s with black and yellow tile, striped wallpaper, chrome fixtures, and some modest, period-appropriate updates, and there\u2019s more style in the entry hall, wallpapered with storks on a red background. Those spaces could be left as is, but the small, corner kitchen has older appliances and dated green faux-marble countertops. The corner location means the views over trees from the sixth floor are \u201cexquisite,\u201d according to the listing, which calls it a penthouse. Monthlies of $1,170 cover a gym in the basement, a doorman, and the use of the building\u2019s private garden.<\/p>\n 190 Meisner Ave. <\/a><\/p>\n Photo: American Homes Group\n <\/p>\n This Italianate villa was built on Staten Island\u2019s Lighthouse Hill in 1856 for a corporate attorney who became an assemblyman, but its most famous resident was Graham Marr, an opera singer who had a recording deal with Columbia Records and bought it in 1925. After his death, the house sold to a couple<\/a> that worked to restore it, putting it on the official map of LGBTQ+ historic sites, and the building was individually landmarked<\/a> in 2007. It\u2019s seen better days. Photos show that chunks of ceiling have fallen in two rooms and leaves have blown into a few others,\u00a0suggesting there are some holes that need to be patched up immediately. But the floors beneath them look nice \u2014 wide plank boards that, like the marble fireplaces seemingly present in every room, are original or at least very old. The standout feature is the curvy central staircase, which meanders up\u00a0to reach an octagonal cupola and a widow\u2019s walk. The\u00a0basement has hand-hewn stone walls, and there\u2019s a terrace off what was likely the old ground-floor kitchen. There are also the grounds themselves: three-quarters of an acre with mature trees and a garage with a little mansard roof that might date to Marr\u2019s era; it, like the main house, clearly needs work, but it doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s beyond saving.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ef25186864678768b09d166644e8a421d6-70-Remsen-Street--Unit-10J-1.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\")
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