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115 South Street
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Listen, it’s not as though 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, the actually worth-the-costs, and the surprisingly affordable-for-those-parquet-floors from all around the internet. 

Truly no rhyme or reason to my quest this week. Went uptown, downtown, and all around, really. A lot of new construction to trudge through and too many AI mock-ups in luxury condos to count. Sorry that I keep winding up on the Upper West Side … something is definitely calling me there for reasons not yet known to me. I promise to avoid it for a little while after this week. Got into a fun price comparison at the bottom that paints a very varied picture of the housing sales market right now …

$13,000, 3-bedroom: This one is sooooo distinct. The design choices are very safe, very I live on the Upper West Side and hired a decorator. But that decorator did a nice job!

312 West 73rd Street.
Photo: Street Realty Brokerage LLC

$4,750, 2-bedroom: Honestly, don’t even really need to qualify this one with words. Just bury me in the mahogany of this living room.

$2,995, 1-bedroom: Cute (though small) with a working fireplace!!!

$12,950, 3-bedroom: This one says, “I have a point of view, so I will forgo the decorator.” Do you think that was a good idea?

$3,900, 1-bedroom: I like the exposed beams, the hardwoods, and the subway tile. Could be a lot worse in here.

125 West 78th Street.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens

$8,950, 4-bedroom: I think this is actually a great find if you can swing it. A strategically stacked triplex with some quirks — the exposed brick isn’t my fave, nor is the weird way it feels like a hallway, but at least it has a personality.

$5,700, 1-bedroom: High in the sky, overlooking the park, with a f******* fireplace.

$8,495, 3-bedroom: Classic-six alert — a shame that they painted most of the walls a wan, buttery yellow. But that’s definitely fixable!

$2,395, studio: Elbow grease required.

225 West 86th Street.
Photo: Douglas Elliman

$12,995, 4-bedroom: Enormous, egregious, everything.

$4,000, 1-bedroom: Can’t tell if this is depressing or charming (though thin). The view (if real) is very pretty, and the garden is sweet.

$14,500, 3-bedroom: You know the window is good when you lose count of the panes.

$9,800, 2-bedroom: The dark walnut floors really do it for me here. No callouts on this one, except for maybe the cost. But that’s just the price of doing business with Central Park–adjacent property.

$7,600, 2-bedroom: Doesn’t make sense that this is in a separate building to the above. The apartments are very close siblings, but I guess that’s just the UWS aesthetic. Same dark walnut floors, a little bit cheaper of a reno on the kitchen and bathroom, a teeny bit farther from the park.

$6,950, 1-bedroom: A view that’s actually demented — so, so stunning. I’m moving.

63 Spring Street.
Photo: REAL New York

$6,295, 2-bedroom: Don’t love the dark stain on the hardwoods, and the white painted brick is a little sloppy, but the price isn’t terrible for the neighborhood …

$2,300, 1-bedroom: Needs some love, but there are crown moldings, green bathroom tiles, and a kitten (?????) on slide six.

18–44 21st Drive.
Photo: EXP Realty NYC

$2,400, 1-bedroom: Good parquet, ugly kitchen and bathroom …

$3,720, 1-bedroom: In an effort to expand my horizons, here’s a luxury condo apartment with all the amenities — sometimes I do think it would be really nice to leave your house, get in the elevator, and once you get off you’re at the gym. Ya know?

115 South Street.
Photo: SERHANT

$6,300, studio: It’s not a studio, it’s a loft. With almost 1,400 square feet of space. I obviously like it because it’s a loft, but there are some questionable design choices. Whoever bastardized Arne Jacobsen’s Egg Chair deserves to be … punished … I’m looking at you, Crate & Barrel.

$7,500, 2-bedroom: Fidi reminds me of a movie character or archetype — trying to put my finger on it … stand by …

$4,000, 1-bedroom: Funky for sure, not clear how much light that lofted area gets (or doesn’t get). Ugh, and the gray floors — like, whyyyyyyy?

Last week, someone made an egregious $22 million purchase of Residence 41 at 200 Amsterdam, that skyscraper on the Upper West Side that looks sort of like a vape. You might recognize the apartment from the scene in Babygirl, when Harris Dickinson shows up unannounced at Nicole Kidman’s fictitious child’s birthday party. Or maybe you know it from that scene in Succession, when Roman Roy is getting ready for an event in the apartment’s en-suite bathroom? Either way, if anyone here is interested (huge congratulations, if so), there’s an available unit in the building in a similar price range. If you are not a billionaire, there’s a really sweet, very small apartment that’s available on Hancock Street (across from the famous Hancock commune). The building is one of those squat and fabulous mansions, built in 1891 by the architect Peter J. Lauritzen. It was owned by the Randolph family and is one of the few remaining mansions on the block. It has all the 19th-century goods — limestone exterior, cast-iron handrails, parquet floors, original fireplace with the most outlandish spindles and wainscoting. Could be yours for the (comparatively) modest sum of $425,000!