NYC Apartments Under a Million: Clinton Hill, Turtle Bay

This Greenwich Village one-bedroom co-op, as seen in this listing photo, has high ceilings and gets plenty of natural night thanks to oversize windows throughout.
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 one-bedroom in prime Greenwich Village and a Tudor City studio with leaded windows and a waterfront view.

45 Fifth Avenue, Apt. 16

The bedroom in this Greenwich Village co-op, as seen in this listing photo, has custom built-ins, which compensate for the apartment’s sole closet, near the entry.
Photo: Corcoran

There’s a lot to appreciate in this one-bedroom: high ceilings, hardwood floors, custom built-ins (which compensate for the apartment’s sole closet, near the entry). The kitchen is tight, but the checkerboard tiles on the floor are sweet — though we have questions about the candy-apple-red countertop and red crane wallpaper. The monthlies, at $1,273, are on the lower end for similarly priced one-beds on the market, and this elevator building has a virtual doorman, bike storage, and a live-in superintendent. The real sell is the center-of-the-universe location: the lovely stretch of Fifth Avenue between 14th Street and Washington Square Park.

45 Tudor City Place, Apt. 1002

This Tudor City studio, as seen in this listing photo, may be petite, but it’s full of impressive details, including leaded windows and river views.
Photo: Corcoran

This studio in Tudor City packs some impressive details into its small corridor: Along with the leaded windows looking out onto the East River, there are nice-looking hardwood floors and, somehow, three closets. The $1,202 in monthly maintenance covers heat, hot water, and electricity, while getting you a bike room, in-building laundry, additional storage space, a full-time doorman, a live-in super, and a concierge. The co-op allows pieds-à-terre and is pretty lax with subletting, which is permitted after two years of ownership. Investors and dogs, however, are verboten.

170 Waverly Avenue, Apt. 9D

This converted two-bedroom in the Clinton Hill Co-ops’ north campus, as shown in this listing photo, boasts solid views of the Manhattan skyline.
Photo: Compass

Earlier this month, we listed a converted two-bedroom on the south campus of the historic Clinton Hill Co-ops. Well, another converted two-bed just hit the market, this time on the co-ops’ north campus. It has some solid views of the Manhattan skyline, and the primary bedroom is pretty spacious and comes with double closets. The second bedroom, however, is very much conversion size, which is probably why the listing characterizes it as “cleverly designed” and suggests multiple uses for it as either a guest room or a way to open up the living-dining area. Compared with the south-campus unit, this one’s a bit pricier. (Does a custom hallway bench, better views, and being closer to the Brooklyn Navy Yard warrant an additional $45,000? Only you can say.) The monthlies total $1,256 and cover the communal laundry room, bike storage, and the residents’ garden courtyards, along with 24-hour security guards and a building porter. Also, per my editor, a lot of “hot, cool people” have been moving in lately, for what it’s worth.

755 42nd Street, Apt. 20

This two-bedroom in Sunset Park, as seen in this listing photo, has charming original prewar details including decorative molding and, curiously, a safe.
Photo: Compass

This dual-exposure, 800-square-foot unit retains many of its prewar details, including hardwood floors and decorative moldings throughout — as well as, curiously, a safe. The bedrooms are both well sized, with the smaller of the pair currently staged as a shared kids’ room. The eat-in kitchen is also quite spacious and has some pretty charming wood cabinetry. It’s $730 for the monthlies (technically on the higher end for the current market, and there’s a $351 monthly assessment running until July 2033), but it comes with a bike room, storage space, in-building laundry, and a live-in super. It’s an eight-minute walk to the D train, just around the corner from the venerated Vietnamese sandwich joint Ba Xuyên and the Liebre Café, and down the street from the eponymous Sunset Park, where you can manage the heat wave in an Olympic-size pool. Also, it’s a two-bedroom for under $600,000. Not bad!