63 West 24th Street Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Corcoran |
Some updates this week: The DMV is closing for five days for a system “upgrade” — a perfect excuse to put off getting your Real ID for another week at least. Mamdani’s appointee for housing commissioner, Dina Levy, decamped from Jersey City to take up residence in the five boroughs (as is required of all city agency commissioners) — she found a subdued Williamsburg rental that’ll run her about $5,000 a month. And in some gross news, those charming gray snowbanks of death are apparently laced with lead and bacteria. Comforting! (Don’t eat it, experts say.)
In terms of my trajectory this week, I didn’t leave Manhattan. I grazed inventory across Hamilton Heights and Central Harlem before making my way through Midtown and down toward Chelsea. Apologies in advance for the Chelsea price points — after a while, I simply surrendered to them. |
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$2,395, 1-bedroom: Prewar elevator building (and co-op) with a lot of its soul intact. So much so that there’s no washer-dryer … $2,750, 1-bedroom: Prewar apartment with a spacious kitchen and the kind of parquet that feels good underfoot.
$3,200, studio: A little grim in some places, but the built-ins are nice.
$3,700, 2-bedroom: The living room is spacious and charming (I tip my hat to the renters who are forfeiting a third of it to their grand piano). Things get less charming as you move through, but I still stand by this place. |
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555 West 149th Street Photo: Corcoran |
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$6,495, 5-bedroom: Robust triplex with approximately 100 rooms, solid hardwoods, and some genuinely lovely preserved woodwork. Would strongly recommend setting fire to the gray desktop-computer-themed stair runner at your earliest convenience. |
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$7,500, 3-bedroom: Major gut reno (like not a detail was spared in the making of this apartment) to this spacious three-bedroom. Twenty-two units in this 1898 building — I imagine the other 21 are also similarly lacking in lifeblood. |
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| 370 Lenox Avenue Photo: R New York |
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$2,700, 1-bedroom: As a painter of white floors, I have to stand by my fellow white-floor painters — I find it works well in garden apartments that are in need of brightening!
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$3,300, 1-bedroom: Baffles the mind that Realtors take photos of listings by night. But I digress … Extremely charming brownstone apartment with potentially working fireplace and the best pocket doors. |
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$6,000, 2-bedroom: I typically avoid Murray Hill (it’s honestly less the bros and more the overpriced and lower-quality inventory), but this place caught my eye. Blame the private roof garden.
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| 163 East 36th Street Photo: Gold & Appel Realty Corp |
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$5,500, 1-bedroom: Okay, Murray HIll! It’s like this apartment heard me talking shit about the quality of inventory and called my bluff. Stunning, gorgeous, expensive one-bedroom in the historic part of the neighborhood. |
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105 East 35th Street Photo: FIND Real Estate |
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$3,600, 1-bedroom: Slowly but surely we are reaching toward affordable … 5 Tudor City Place is one of my favorite buildings and lobbies (for the love of terracotta tiling) despite its not-so-catchy name.
$3,600, 1-bedroom: The breakfast nook is what’s calling me. |
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$6,300, studio: Have a laugh, will you? This one’s just for fun. Can you imagine living with this many beautiful windows? Can you imagine paying this much for a studio? A lot of fantasies at play here.
$6,195, 1-bedroom: Expensive but quite nice one-bedroom at the covetable London Terrace Gardens. Going to have dreams of this bathroom tonight.
$3,600, studio: Nicely maintained prewar with the good parquet and a sunken living room at a more realistic price point (for an apartment that doesn’t have a bedroom). Still high, though!
$15,000, 3-bedroom: Because what is a week without a LOTW (loft of the week)? |
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150 West 26th Street Photo: Alta Real Estate |
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