The living room of the Park Slope one-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, is large, as are all the other rooms in the apartment. It also has new, soundproof casement windows on two sides, admitting light but not noise.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Corcoran
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’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points.
This week’s apartments include a Hell’s Kitchen four-bedroom with a dining room a few blocks from Central Park and an Upper West Side one-bedroom with a wood-burning fireplace.
118 Eighth Avenue, Apt. 2D
The bedroom of the Park Slope co-op, as shown in listing photos, has prewar details like beamed ceilings and hardwood floors, and it’s located in a building with a part-time doorman.
Photo: Corcoran
This corner one-bedroom in north Park Slope gets a lot of light in both the living room and the bedroom from two exposures and is spacious as well — the main room is 20 by 12 feet, and the bedroom is also expansive at 17 feet long. There is a foyer, a galley kitchen, and plentiful closets (two in the foyer, two in the bedroom, and a linen off the bathroom). Besides a generous layout, there are new soundproof casement windows; original oak floors; and high, beamed ceilings. The bathroom has some personality, covered in navy and cobalt tiles, and while the kitchen renovation is fairly basic, with Formica countertops, there is a dishwasher. Located in a pet-friendly co-op with multiple elevators, in-building laundry, and storage in the basement (there’s a wait list, though). Maintenance is $1,785 a month — not bad for a building with a 12-hour-a-day doorman. A few blocks from Prospect Park, the apartment is a quick walk to the 2/3 trains at Grand Army Plaza and the B/Q trains at Seventh Avenue.
345 W. 55th Street, Apt. 8AB
The Hell’s Kitchen four-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, is massive with a separate dining room, two bathrooms, ten closets, and an actual laundry room.
Photo: Compass
Priced like it’s 1999 — here’s a mammoth prewar co-op with four bedrooms (!), two bathrooms, a dining room, and ten closets. Yes, it does need some work: The kitchen and one of the bathrooms have dated finishes and at least one of the bedroom floors looks like it needs refinishing, but for under a million, this seems like a great deal. The ceilings are beamed, the floors are hardwood, the bedrooms are all legal (that is, windowed and large enough to meet New York City requirements), and there are windows on three sides. Plus there’s an in-unit laundry room — not just a closet where the machines are stacked on top of each other. The location is also great: Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, the Theater District, and half the subway lines in the city are all nearby, and Central Park is three blocks away (the building itself is apparently a favorite among actors, if that appeals). The maintenance, at $4,787 a month, is a little steep, but considering the size of the apartment and the fact that there’s a part-time doorman, it’s really not that bad.
318 Knickerbocker Avenue, Apt. 2A
This Bushwick one-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, has loftlike ceilings and windows on two sides of the living room. It’s located in a 2010 condo conversion with a common rooftop and a gym.
Photo: Compass
This corner one-bedroom apartment, located in a 2010 condo conversion, has lots of new building perks: There’s central air, an in-unit Miele washer and dryer, and building amenities that include an elevator, a gym, and a common roof-deck. It also has some prewar loft niceties like ten-foot ceilings, a living room with four large windows, and multiple exposures (compared to the common new construction setup of the aughts: unidirectional light from front-facing windows). There’s a pass-through kitchen, which some buyers may prefer to the open kitchens in so many condos. The stainless-steel appliances and kitchen finishes have held up well, and the taxes, at $381 a month, are low for now (there’s a tax abatement that expires next year). The price may be a little high — another one-bedroom in the building asking $100,000 less is currently in contract — but other one-bedrooms there have sold in the $700,000 and even $800,000 range.
632 West End Avenue, Apt. 2F
The living/dining room, as shown in listing photos, is the showstopper of this Upper West Side one bedroom: 25 feet long, with a bay window and a wood burning fireplace.
Photo: Keller Williams NYC
Located on the parlour floor of an Upper West Side brownstone, this one-bedroom apartment has a huge living and dining room that extends over 25 feet long, with West-facing bay windows overlooking West End Avenue. The place is full of pre-war charm: a wood-burning fireplace, parquet floors with inlaid borders and (as is to be expected of the parlour level) soaring ceilings. There’s a recently updated galley kitchen and a bathroom with a soaking tub. The only drawback is that the bedroom, tucked off to the side of the grand living and dining room, is quite narrow (just over 6 feet). The building, by 91st Street, is pet friendly, with a reasonable maintenance of $961. It’s just a block from Riverside Park, a few blocks from the 2/3 trains at 96th Street, and close to the many desirable grocery stores of the Upper West Side: Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Zabar’s, Barney Greengrass.
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