This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings (2024)

341 Bainbridge St. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Compass

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Listen, it’s not like getting an apartment in New York has ever been easy. But one could probably argue that 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, actually worth-the-costs, and the surprisingly affordable-for-those-parquet-floors from all around the internet.

A few weeks ago, I came upon so many under-$3,000 one- and two-bedrooms that I became convinced things on the Brooklyn rental-market front were improving. I’m afraid I was wrong. Everything is currently ridiculously, outrageously expensive (probably in part because it’s prime moving season). As always, I did my best to find those hidden, actually-nice and somehow underpriced spots. I’d say I was moderately successful this week! And if you’re specifically for a studio in Brooklyn Heights, you’re in luck here — I found a few great (but sorry, sorry, mostly overpriced) ones.

Bed-Stuy Apartment Listings

$3,703, 1-bedroom: This building rocks and the virtual staging sucks. Apartment also a little underwhelming, but the building! Rocks.

$9,750, 5-bedroom: A little overrenovated for my taste, but who needs charm when you have five bedrooms?

$7,451, 4-bedroom: Another overly zealous gut job, but it’s a very nice duplex besides that!

$3,600, 2-bedroom: I like the strange shape of this apartment because it lets in a lot of light. Looks brand-spanking-new and is neither charming nor ugly.

$7,025, 3-bedroom: Sweet and squat brownstone with some tasteful details — the tiling in the bathroom and the exposed beams in the bedroom, namely.

$3,495, 1-bedroom: Floor-through garden apartment with an unusual amount of light and a lot of potential. Hate that sliding barnyard-chic door, though.

$3,750, 2-bedroom: Brand-new two-bedroom (or so they say) garden apartment.

$5,000, 2-bedroom: The perfect apartment, only available for a month.

425 Hanco*ck St. Photo: Corcoran Group

$1,999, 1-bedroom: Advertised as the “cheapest apartment in Bed-Stuy.” Quite bright and charming, considering.

Fort Greene Apartment Listings

$6,925, 3-bedroom: The green staircase that leads to who knows where … too cute!

$2,500, studio: A not-excellent, not-terrible overpriced studio that may be worth it to you for its location on the exceedingly charming, park-adjacent South Oxford.

$3,950, 1-bedroom: A similar situation, except this one is larger and on the similarly charming, similarly park-adjacent South Elliott.

$3,100, studio: And a third in the same category, this one on SOUTH PORTLAND. Substantially nicer than the previous two, though —with three big windows and a lofted bedroom.

Crown Heights Apartment Listings

$3,595, 2-bedroom: Some unattractive features (the wrought-iron railing and exposed brick), but it’s totally fine otherwise. (And really, it’s a pretty nice kitchen.) Someone I know hung canvas all over the walls because their landlord wouldn’t let them paint the brick white — it worked well.

$7,400, 5-bedroom: Another day, another fiver! Don’t love the latticework, or the wainscoting, or any of the finishes for that matter, but it’s big and its bones are beautiful.

930 Lincoln Place Photo: Corcoran Group

$6,250, 2-bedroom: This nicely updated prewar apartment is very tasteful, even though it’s —like everything else on this list —absurdly overpriced! If you miss any of the old-school charm, just head down to your lobby, which is absolutely dripping with opulence.

$2,500, 1-bedroom: It’s fine! It’ll do!

$9,750, 6-bedroom: A stately and stout six-bedroom.

$4,300, 3-bedroom: Sometimes, I think, Maybe this is who I should be? Clean, lovely, generic, and clean. And actually not a terrible price for a three-bedroom this well renovated.

Prospect–Lefferts Gardens Apartment Listings

$10,000, 4-bedroom: If I could, this is what I would take ……….

52 Midwood St. Photo: Corcoran Group

$1,850, studio: A lovely little studio, at a great price point.

$4,000, 3-bedroom: Nice, if you’re into dark mahogany.

$7,500, 3-bedroom: The previous tenants had some fun!Namely: the navy-blue and mahogany dining area that feels like a ship’s hull, the powder-blue bathroom with a soaking tub, the cozy and chic garden level with a built-in window seat and nicely exposed beams.

$2,900, 2-bedroom: A lot of space, half a block from the park

$6,250, 4-bedroom: Have listed this one before. Price has decreased. Cannot understand how it hasn’t been scooped yet.

Prospect Heights Apartment Listings

$5,000, 2-bedroom: Classic prewar two-bedroom with all the fixings. A shame about the new windows, though.

Brooklyn Heights Apartment Listings

$3,125, studio: Cute studio at BK Heights pricing! I especially like the floor-to-ceiling bay window.

$3,200, studio: Another studio! But this one is absolutely and completely perfect?

Brooklyn Heights studio Photo: Ekaterina V/Craigslist

$2,850, studio: SSAS (sorry, sorry, another —great! — studio).

$6,200, 2-bedroom: Something very monklike and ascetic about this one. Besides the price, obviously.

82 Willow St. Photo: Corcoran Group

$4,200, 1-bedroom: This one advertises a home-theater screen! I’m happy to report that the pictures back up that claim.

$3,795, 1-bedroom: Okay, this is not Brooklyn Heights, but it’s close-ish. It’s Boerum Hill, and it’s not a bad price for the neighborhood or space.

Williamsburg Apartment Listings

$3,950, 1-bedroom: A cutie one-bedroom — somewhat unremarkable, but perfectly nice.

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