{"id":352384,"date":"2026-09-21T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352384\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:44:13","slug":"nyc-apartments-under-a-million-lenox-hill-sunset-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352384\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Apartments Under a Million: Lenox Hill, Sunset Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n This two-bedroom, as seen in this listing photo, leans hard into its Prospect Park proximity with five north-facing windows.
\n Photo: Curbed; Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

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, we\u2019ve got a grand two-bedroom penthouse directly across from the Parade Ground and a rare chance to live on the Upper West Side\u2019s Pomander Walk.<\/p>\n

1110 Caton Avenue, Apt. PH17<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n The view isn\u2019t great in this two-bedroom, as seen in this listing photo, but you can fit a king-size mattress here.
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

The living area of this penthouse leans hard into the location, with five north-facing windows across almost 26 feet of Prospect Park frontage. But it\u2019s also spacious: a work-from-home station plus separate living and dining areas all seem pretty feasible. (If you really need another room, the listing suggests that there\u2019s enough square footage to carve one out.) The views from the bedrooms appear to be less exciting, and only one has closets, but there\u2019s enough space in each for a king-size mattress. The windowed renovated kitchen is roomy, with a washer-dryer. The monthlies are $1,459, which get you only the basics and a bike room. You\u2019re right across the street from the park\u2019s Parade Ground for pickup soccer games, a five-minute walk from Wheated for a seriously good pesto pizza, and an eight-minute walk from the Church Avenue B and Q stop.<\/p>\n

55 East 65th Street, Apt. 6B<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n The kitchen\u2019s red cabinetry, as seen in this listing photo, is just some of the bold d\u00e9cor throughout in this Lenox Hill one-bedroom.
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

This one-bedroom is another case where the proximity to green space is a selling point \u2014 you\u2019d be just two blocks from Central Park. But we also couldn\u2019t resist the d\u00e9cor and fixtures that are, let\u2019s say, bold (a distraction from the views, which are far from dazzling). The living-dining area skews kinda-sorta gilded age with a prosciutto-marble wood-burning fireplace and patina mirrors sandwiched by built-ins, whereas the matchbox-size kitchen\u2019s renovation feels more modern, with a good amount of candy-apple-red cabinetry and stainless-steel appliances. You can fit a king-size mattress in the bedroom, right on top of the snow-leopard-pattern carpet. It all makes the bathroom, which is merely white marble with a walk-in shower, seem pretty restrained.<\/p>\n

843 43rd Street, Apt. 7<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n This two-bedroom apartment\u2019s living area, as seen in this listing photo, feels particularly airy thanks to the French doors.
\n Photo: Corcoran\n <\/p>\n

Nice space and air in this two-bedroom in Sunset Park\u2019s Finnish Co-ops<\/a>, where the eat-in windowed kitchen has been zhuzhed up with butcher block and a mint-green fridge. The living room feels particularly open thanks to the French doors, and you can easily fit a couch and round dining table in there. There are leafy views from the bedrooms and plenty of room to stretch out, and the windowed bathroom feels classic with the cast-iron soaking tub. Monthlies, which get you a live-in super, more laundry in the basement, and a private storage unit, are notably low at $1,094, probably because the co-op is self-managed. The 9th Avenue D train is a seven-minute walk, and you\u2019re just two blocks from Sunset Park and its Art Deco\u2013y pool come summer.<\/p>\n

272 West 95th Street, Apt. 2\/3<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n Pomander Walk, as seen in this listing photo, feels like a British-inspired micro-village on the Upper West Side.
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

Pomander Walk<\/a> is a gated co-op that\u2019s effectively a micro-village on the Upper West Side, with dollhouse-romantic Tudor-style houses and lush gardens lining a blocklong pedestrian path. (The enclave was built in the 1920s, intended to echo the look of an Old English village.) The listing here is for two one-bedrooms on separate floors that, with board approval and a stomach for renovations, you can turn into a three-bedroom duplex. (Although, as my colleague Kim Velsey points out, at least one of those rooms will have a spiral staircase running right through it.) Compass\u2019s Danielle Sevier, who has the listing, chalks up the low price to the fact that the apartments themselves are quite small \u2014 the living rooms alone are just 10-by-12 feet \u2014 and that even if you weren\u2019t planning to combine them, they need some work. But if you\u2019re game for bi-level living in a storybook enclave, this is probably it. It\u2019s $2,792 for the monthly maintenance, and that\u2019ll get you a live-in super, a bike room, and a storage cage.<\/p>\n

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