The big arched windows stand out in the listing photos for this Flatiron one-bedroom.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Douglas Elliman
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: sunken living rooms and a prewar with arches galore in Flatiron.
235 East 73rd Street #1D
The living room in this apartment is all about the built-ins as featured in this listing photo.
Photo: Compass
Throw away your existing storage; this listing is all about the built-ins: built-in bookshelves and media console around the fireplace in the living room, built-in floating shelves lining the ceiling, and built-in wardrobes in the bedroom. You’ll need to swap out the wallpaper, but we love the drop-down living room. It’s on the first floor, which comes with its first-floor issues, and monthlies are on the higher end at $2,107, but it’s a properly grand place in Lenox Hill, and the building comes with a full-time doorman, gym, laundry room, and outdoor patio. That Second Avenue subway extension is feeling pretty sweet now, too.
145 Hicks Street #B35
Another sunken living room featured in this listing photo that helps separate the space in this Brooklyn Heights studio.
Photo: Brooklyn Heights Real Estate Inc
Another sunken living room! This Brooklyn Heights co-op is on a lush stretch of Hicks and just around the corner from the 2/3. The living room has two entrances and original parquet floors, all of which helps add a nice sense of separation to the studio space. The kitchen is newly renovated and now has granite countertops, while the bathroom couldn’t be cuter with all of its prewar charm and those pink tiles. Monthlies are manageable at $998.
33 East 22nd Street #5D
This listing has a lot of nice prewar features, like the arched entryways shown in this listing photo.
Photo: Douglas Elliman
This prewar is in a prime location — a block from multiple trains and the dog run and Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. The big arched windows are a nice touch, plus the custom built-in bookshelves in the living room add a lot of storage. Lots of arches in general, which I find pleasing and visually cohesive! You could update the kitchen or leave the charming cast-iron sink and old stove. The dining area is small, but you can still fit a two-top if you must. Cheaper than the median price for the area.
84-12 35th Avenue #4E
This co-op is big and has a good layout with enough room to fit a table in the dining area shown in this listing photo.
Photo: Douglas Elliman
A satisfyingly huge one-bedroom co-op with a nice layout. The windowed kitchen has enough room to fit a small eat-in table and opens up into a dining area if you want something bigger. The bathroom has room for a shower and a tub and the bedroom and living room are well sized. East and southern exposures mean the apartment is full of light. It’s a little pricier than the median one-bedroom in the area, but the size helps make up for it, and monthlies, which include bike storage and a communal garden, are low at $733. The Belvedere is one of the old buildings in Queens whose name conjures up a sense of grandiosity in our grubby city lives.
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