3 Greene Street. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Corcoran |
I’m moving! And the gerund here is important, because it’s a process that is seemingly never ending. I forgot that boxing up all your crap and moving it to a new location is only phase one. Now I’ve entered phase two, which is akin to camping — wearing and rewearing old sweatshirts, washing my face with a bar of soap because my skin care is an unlabeled box at the bottom of a tower of other unlabeled boxes, all while eating yogurt with a fork (shout-out to my friend #Gina for this tip, who is also mid-move). Take this as a cautionary tale to label your boxes, people! But I digress … this week, I focused on the isle of Manhattan, specifically the Upper West Side, where prices are not cheap, and charm was hard to come by. (Don’t worry, I still found some.) If you want an affordable one-bedroom with nice original details, Washington Heights might be the place for you. And of course, I toured some Soho lofts for good measure!
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$2,750, 1-bedroom: WFA (working-fireplace alert).
$3,200, 1-bedroom: Really nothing special here, just a spare one-bedroom with no amenities or updates in a semi-affordable price range.
$3,700, 1-bedroom: Decent prewar apartment with great light, strong parquet, and a pathetic kitchen. Kitchenette is the more appropriate term — inappropriate for a not-dirt-cheap one-bedroom.
$4,200, 1-bedroom: Very classy parlor-floor apartment with stunning woodwork, tiling, and two working fireplaces. Floor could use some sanding. |
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| 157 West 93rd Street. Photo: Sotheby’s International Realty |
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$4,500, 1-bedroom: Sort of weird apartment with a very distracting (and very large) built-in-closet system. Beneath some of the very odd (and very bad) design choices — see the floor-to-ceiling curtain that covers a cheap sliding door and also all the pendants and light fixtures — there’s some charm and potential.
$7,250, 3-bedroom: More of the same fantastic, ceramic-tiled fireplaces. Went down a small rabbit hole, looking into the integration of tiles in New York City homes. Looks like it started happening in the Victorian era, before central heating was adopted. Classier times.
$9,750, 3-bedroom: Fancy, renovated and classic-six-esque (though there are seven rooms) in a prewar co-op building with updates to bathrooms and kitchen. Wish they had sprung for nicer windows! The Victorians would never …
$10,000, 2-bedroom: Not what I’d typically go for, but if you want to spend a lot of money and look out at all of Manhattan from your glass perch, that is your prerogative. I like the grain on the floors and there’s a pool on the premises.
$11,500, 3-bedroom: Funky duplex apartment in a townhouse that neighbors the park. I like the black-and-white coffered ceiling, actually, with the mirror that’s giving dance hall. |
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27 West 90th Street. Photo: Sotheby’s International Realty |
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$15,000, 3-bedroom: Breaking out in hives looking at that dust-filled lounge chair, but I’m ready and prepared to endure the hives for the vibes of this place. |
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30 Bethune Street. Photo: Brown Harris Stevens |
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$11,000, loft: Considering the sheer square footage, I just couldn’t, in good conscience, write one-bedroom. Enter: loft. This one is a little worse for wear. But potential beckons.
$12,500, 2-bedroom: This loft really touches me somewhere deep — so much raw power here, no? If you are not a multi-multimillionnaire, I will split this with you and whoever else we can rope in to contribute. |
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3 Greene Street. Photo: Corcoran |
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$1,871, 1-bedroom: Deal of the week, folks! Get it while it’s hot.
$2,200, 1-bedroom: Another totally nice prewar one-bedroom that may or may not be beneath the Cross Bronx Expressway …
$2,700, 1-bedroom: That prewar, sunken living room, good, good! $3,100, 1-bedroom: Stunning, gorgeous, moving to Washington Heights. |
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511 West 169th Street. Photo: Corcoran |
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