| | Photo: Courtesy of The Corcoran Group | | Rents have been steadily climbing since late spring. The median rent in Manhattan is back up to $3,000 for the first time since the pandemic, and Zumper reported in late August that NYC had surpassed San Francisco as the most expensive rental market in the country. While peak-pandemic concessions are now harder to come by, we're still finding the odd exceptional deal. For instance: a $1,995 one-bedroom on the Upper East Side, a $2,199 East Village one-bedroom that used to go for over $2,500, and a $3,500 Chelsea two-bedroom with a chandelier in every room. | Listings Edit is Curbed's Thursday digest of particularly worth-it apartments for rent in New York City. Each week, we carefully sort through hundreds of rentals (across listing sites, newsletters, and Craigslist), keeping an eye out for places that are truly worth their asking price — whether that's an under-$2,000 one-bedroom (that truly is a one-bedroom) or a $7,000 Beaux-Arts townhouse with a spiral staircase and three functioning fireplaces. | Did someone forward you this email? Subscribe now to get it in your inbox every week. | $2,700: Brownstone two-bedroom (available after four years) on Greene Avenue, just off Bedford, with high ceilings, two decorative white fireplaces, and elaborate restored window casings throughout. | $4,500: 2,000-square-foot (parlor floor and garden level) duplex with windows running along the side of the house, plus tons of original details (including multiple fireplaces, pocket doors, carved staircase, wall and ceiling moldings), a paved backyard, and washer/dryer. | Boerum Hill/Carroll Gardens | $3,300: 1,000-square-foot king-size one-bedroom on Carroll Street (only a minute from Carroll Park), with tin ceilings, a fairly large windowed office (plus double closets) off the bedroom, and a formal dining room (or an additional home office, as it's currently set up). | $3,650: One-bedroom on Hoyt Street (above Oaxaca Taqueria) with a private entrance, fireplace, several exposed brick walls, a separate room off the kitchen with a washer/dryer and additional storage or work space, a lovely renovated kitchen with a window overlooking rear gardens, and a wrought-iron spiral staircase up to a private roof deck with picnic-table seating. | $7,500: 1,800-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bath triplex in a brownstone at the corner of Clinton Street and 2nd Place, with a bay-window banquette, renovated kitchen and baths, two private decks (plus access to a large front garden and roof deck), and a skylit nook that's oddly perfect for a Peloton. | $1,900: Two-bedroom in a railroad layout but looks charming with high ceilings, wall moldings, an arched doorway, and a massive kitchen that has two windows, an exposed brick wall, and tin ceilings. Near the Dekalb Avenue L train. | $3,500: True two-bedroom on West 20th Street (next to a Cafe Grumpy) with a chandelier in each room (even the windowed kitchen) and some wall moldings. | East Village/Lower East Side | $2,199: One-bedroom on East 3rd Street (between First and Second Avenues) that used to rent for over $2,500 before the pandemic, with French doors, moldings, and a windowed kitchen. | $2,495*: True one-bedroom on East 7th Street near Tompkins Square Park with a stainless-steel dishwasher, an exposed-brick wall in each room, checkered-tile bathroom, and a walk-in closet. | $3,100: Large and just-renovated one-bedroom on Norfolk Street with all-new stainless-steel appliances (including a dishwasher and built-in microwave), a washer/dryer, and exposed brick in every room. | Greenwich Village/West Village | $2,700 (net effective: $2,200): Bright and relatively spacious studio with a renovated, dishwasher-equipped kitchen and a windowed bathroom. Lease takeover for a tenant who got a pandemic discount. | $6,500: Rare three-bedroom, two-bath duplex with a spiral staircase, two balconies, a terrace, skylights, and plenty of exposed brick. | $8,000: The full second floor of a brick townhouse on West 11th Street, with two bedrooms (the larger has another bedroom-sized office with a closet and window), two wood-burning fireplaces, a hallway with six large closets, and a nearly 19-foot terrace with an unusually expansive view of backyard gardens. | $12,000*: Huge renovated three-bedroom, two-bath apartment occupying the full top floor of a townhouse right across from Washington Square Park, with a working fireplace against a white brick wall, two big skylights, and a galley kitchen with marble countertops and concealed appliances. | $2,200: Bright corner one-bedroom on 22nd Street near Sixth Avenue, with five windows across the living room and open kitchen (where there are also two decorative fireplaces, plus an island), a chandelier in the bedroom, and a skylit bathroom. | $2,694 (net effective: $2,582): Relatively spacious walk-up one-bedroom on Second Avenue (across the street from a Target), with a dishwasher, washer/dryer, and new hardwood floors. | $2,250: Efficient walk-up one-bedroom on 11th Street just off Fifth Avenue with a closet big enough to transform into a home office, a windowed bathroom, and views of One World Trade. | $2,700: Sunny brownstone one-bedroom on Berkeley Place (a four-minute walk from the Grand Army Plaza 2/3 trains) with a skylight in the kitchen and a big private deck (which faces backyard gardens and comes with seating, outdoor outlets, planters, and string lights). | $1,995: True one-bedroom on East 81st Street (a five-minute walk from Carl Schurz Park) that has room for a workspace in the living room, plus a window in both the spacious kitchen and bathroom. | $2,300: Charming one-bedroom at the Cherokee with parquet floors, several built-in bookshelves, and two floor-to-ceiling windows that have Juliet balconies overlooking the courtyard. | | | Photo: Google Maps | | The apartments in the Cherokee, a co-op on East 77th, nearly all have gridded, floor-to-ceiling windows and most also have an iron balcony — neither of which were put in purely for aesthetic reasons. The building, made up of four interconnected six-story buildings, originally opened in 1912 as a tuberculosis sanitarium meant to serve low-income families with at least one TB-infected member. The triple-sash windows were designed to open easily and let in lots of air and light — and the balconies were installed to allow patients to sleep outdoors (the building has a pent eave roof fit with loggias, which keeps everything underneath dry). And the radiators were placed on the walls so dirt and dust wouldn't collect under them. The whole thing was paid for by Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, the wife of William K. Vanderbilt Sr. (she bought up 18 city lots for $81,000, and gave an additional $1,000,000 for construction). Rentals come up frequently in the building — one or two come on the market every month or so — and are relatively inexpensive. 1H, a studio with a floor-to-ceiling kitchen window (and subway tiling), recently went for $1,650. | $2,300*: One-bedroom on Broadway (just under the 110th Street 1 train) with an open kitchen (and bar seating for three), narrow French doors (with an arched transom above), a wall of oak built-in bookshelves, plus five closets and a marble bath. | $3,500: Large one-bedroom on West 73rd Street (a two-minute walk from the 72nd Street 1/2/3 trains) with ample room for a dining table, a dishwasher, and a private garden-facing terrace. | $3,600: Renovated two-bedroom just a minute from McCarren Park (and Lilia) with French doors, recessed lights, and access to a huge private backyard. | Our picks are organized by neighborhood in order of ascending price. Didn't see anything from the neighborhood you're interested in? We'll try to include a wide range of locations as new units come up. To keep this list fresh, we're removing listings that have not been rented after two weeks (and will put an asterisk next to holdovers from the previous week). | Never miss a story from Curbed Subscribe now. | | | |
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