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\n 166 State Street
\n Photo: Curbed; Photos: JDM Real Estate Consulting\n <\/p>\n

This article first appeared in The Listings Edit newsletter<\/a>, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York City. Sign up<\/a> to get it first.<\/p>\n

Listen, it\u2019s 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\u2019ll find the actually worth-looking-ats, the actually worth-the-costs, and the surprisingly affordable-for-those-parquet-floors from all around the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weird week, friends. Started on the Upper East for some gutted-mansion hopping because East Harlem wasn\u2019t giving me great results. From there, I ventured to\u00a0Sunset Park, which was disappointing because I saw only two apartments I liked. After that, I did some Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill browsing\u00a0\u2014 avoiding Downtown Brooklyn, a.k.a. Consensus Clunkism<\/a>, with all my might. Stick around for a little slice of new-to-me Bed-Stuy history.<\/p>\n

$2,700, studio:<\/a> An apartment for ants. Let me amend: a cheap apartment for ants.<\/p>\n

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\n 452 East 78th Street
\n Photo: Cooper & Cooper Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

$3,850, studio:<\/a> Top-floor alcove, yes please? An apartment for ants with trust funds and a proclivity for views.<\/p>\n

$5,000, 1-bedroom:<\/a> Handsome renovation with highlights that include a Verona red-marble bathroom and a gorgeous cedar sauna on premises.<\/p>\n

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\n 343 East 74th Street
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

$5,500, 1-bedroom:<\/a> I just thought the building itself was sexy!<\/p>\n

$8,100, 2-bedroom:<\/a> The stone balcony is what I\u2019m signing up for here. Can\u2019t tell if the blinding fluorescence is because of recessed downlights or because of the bad image quality \u2026 but you should go find out for me.<\/p>\n

$8,700, 1-bedroom:<\/a> Ever wanted to live in a defunct doctor\u2019s office on the Upper East Side?? Now\u2019s your chance.<\/p>\n

$8,900, 1-bedroom:<\/a> It\u2019s feeling very Donna Tartt, very Goldfinch-coded in here.<\/p>\n

$11,000, 3-bedroom:<\/a> Two walk-in closets, which I guess explains the high price point?<\/p>\n

$14,500, 3-bedroom:<\/a> The most fabulously ugly dungeon\/mansion I\u2019ve seen in a long time. It was listed for sale<\/a> this summer but appears to have just sat. The skybridge<\/a> connecting the bedroom to the rest of the house?? It\u2019s giving Epstein\u2019s lair \u2026<\/p>\n

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\n 52 East 78th Street
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

$2,800, 2-bedroom:<\/a> Image 9. The pairing of the bottle of red and the Old Spice deodorant is evocative and quite frankly romantic. Otherwise, cheap with potential.<\/p>\n

$4,500, 3-bedroom:<\/a> Honestly really nicely renovated parlor-floor apartment that won\u2019t last.<\/p>\n

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\n 563 41st Street
\n Photo: Sousa Real Estate, Inc.\n <\/p>\n

$3,195, 1-bedroom:<\/a> I just love how New York this place feels. In less than 1,000 square feet we have a ballet studio, an outdoor living room, a photo gallery \u2026 who needs space when you\u2019re living life to the fullest?<\/p>\n

$4,200, 1-bedroom:<\/a> Big, weird mansion with bad lighting and linoleum floors. But I\u2019m a sucker for exposed beams, and maybe you are too \u2026<\/p>\n

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\n 1698 Lexington Avenue
\n Photo: StayBK LLC\n <\/p>\n

$3,000, 1-bedroom:<\/a> The theme this week is dance studio, I guess!<\/p>\n

$3,900, studio:<\/a> I find the idiosyncratic floor plan appealing here! The giant picture window and bookshelf is a nice side by side, too.<\/p>\n

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\n 166 State Street
\n Photo: JDM Real Estate Consulting\n <\/p>\n

$4,700, 1-bedroom:<\/a> www.windows.com<\/p>\n

$12,950, 2-bedroom:<\/a> Very Nancy Meyers in here \u2026 I\u2019m just such a sucker for a semi-wide plank of wood. Especially when there are a lot of them and they\u2019re in my kitchen.<\/p>\n

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\n 471 Henry Street
\n Photo: Brownstone Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

Since I can\u2019t go a week without talking about Bed-Stuy, and because of my recent move (we\u2019re officially putting it in the past tense) into a two-bedroom in a multi-family brownstone in the neighborhood, I have new, vested interest in some of my apartment\u2019s original details. I\u2019ve never been big into mahogany \u2014\u00a0too close an association with men\u2019s club things like cigars and poker and private libraries. But lately I\u2019ve been gravitating toward these more masculine details, studying and appreciating them with a closer eye. Amazing to think that when these brownstones were built, they came equipped with beaded lattices, perfectly stained herringbone, and floral-chiseled woodwork.<\/p>\n

While reading around, I learned that it was not a man but a woman named Susanna Russell who was actually responsible for many of these details. Russell was one of the first women developers and architects working in Brooklyn, and\u00a0she and her husband developed and designed five rows of houses here in Bed-Stuy, built between 1878 and 1882, mostly in the Neo-Grec and Queen Anne styles. Here\u2019s some of what\u2019s left of her work: 61 Hancock,<\/a> sold in 2019, still has some of her ornate cornice work on some of the doorways; 101 Hancock<\/a>\u00a0was recently sold and completely gutted, with no details spared; 276 Monroe<\/a> was also gutted, also sold; 82 Monroe<\/a> wasn\u2019t gutted but worse, demolished, and a condo building stands in its place. And lastly, the Brownstone Boys, a developer duo who renovate townhouses, recently completed a project called Saving Susanna<\/a> in which they sanded away years of dark varnish and restored much of the original woodwork, ornate ceiling medallions, and plaster tapestries.<\/p>\n

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