This Week: Morningside Heights, Brooklyn Heights, and Holland Tunnel Heights

Charm in Morningside Heights, Brooklyn Heights, and Holland Tunnel Heights 29 King Street. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Red Jacket Residential Listen, it’s not as though getting an apartment in New York has ever been easy. But one could probably argue it has never been harder than it is right now. The most god-awful studios are regularly renting for thousands and thousands of dollars with lines of interested tenants out the door. Here, we’ll find the actually worth-looking-ats, the actually worth-the-costs, and the surprisingly affordable-for-those-parquet-floors from around the internet. There are three things you need to look at New York real estate: an iron stomach, a healthy imagination, and an unshakable belief that sacrificing space is totally worth it because you’ve been meaning to pare down anyway, and who needs things like closets or pantries or even dining rooms for that matter when there are 400 restaurants within walking distance that you can’t afford? But I digress … this week, we exercised all three of these tenants on our visits to Greenwich Village, the Upper West Side, Morningside Heights, and Park Slope. Good luck and Godspeed out there. $6,400, 1-bedroom: Cute and tiny, with an old-school feel, especially in the hardwoods and the prewar layout. (There’s also a seafoam mini fridge that’s branded “icebox.”) Pricing’s not nostalgic, though. $7,700, 1-bedroom: Going rate for the Greenwich Village–Soho border, I guess? Cannot believe apartments in this totally whatever 1960s condo building are going for almost $8K. BUT! There is a pool on the roof (that I have personally swum in and can vouch for). $12,000, 1-bedroom (pictured above): Going to try not to fixate on the price and just comment on the beautiful architecture. I’ve always admired this building – a defunct grammar school with sky-high windows and ceilings. Enormous loft apartments in — because let’s be real about what “Hudson Square” really is — the Holland Tunnel neighborhood. $3,500, 1-bedroom: This is a perfect apartment, and I don’t want to hear otherwise. Herringbones, windows at every turn, that lovely curve in the oddly-shaped living room. Don’t talk to me about the bathroom: I said I don’t want to hear it! 166 State Street. Photo: EXR $4,695, 2-bedroom (pictured): I love the mahogany paneling and the pocket shutters. There’s an AI warning on the listing, and that had better not pertain to the shutters. Seemingly on Columbia’s campus, which I would list as a con, unless you’re in attendance there. $3,650, 2-bedroom: Prewar cutie with all the goods – some interesting original design details in the woodwork, nicely maintained moldings and also essentially on campus. 414 West 121st Street. Photo: Lease Point $5,250, 2-bedroom: Where you see a kind of ugly duplex with a kind of ugly terrace, I see potential. Just cover up those heavily varnished floors with some beautiful rugs, put some lovely potted plants out, and you got yourself the start of a home. $13,750, 3-bedroom: Renovated penthouse in a gorgeous – really gorgeous! – townhouse, just steps from the park. The renovation feels suburban and perhaps not the most tasteful, but there’s a lot of room(s) to grow here. $3,350, 1-bedroom (pictured below): This place is, for me, all about the burnt-orange terra-cotta tiling on the fireplace. The whole apartment has an Arts-and-Crafts feel that I’m into. The “office” is its own separate room, which I might seriously consider making a “bedroom.” $5,095, 2-bedroom: What, do you lack imagination entirely? Burn the furniture and you have a gorgeous brownstone apartment with unique porthole windows, a woodburning fireplace, and two skylights. $4,600 1-bedroom: Have listed this totally fabulous bachelor pad before, but it went off the market, only to come back on a month later…if you feel like investigating what that’s all about, and are into French Provincial-meets-flapper vibes and Jacuzzis, then this is the place for you. $5,500, 1-bedroom: Another case of BFGB (bad furniture, good bones). One of those stunning brownstones that you only see near the park. $3,500, 1-bedroom: This week on “how not to design your apartment using psychedelic color blocking and confused Japanese-inspired folding screens”… 251 West 72nd Street. Photo: Charney Real Estate LLC $3,600, 1-bedroom (pictured): Charming attic apartment with a skylight that feels like a portal to another dimension. 218 St. Johns Place. Photo: Douglas Elliman $7,000, 2-bedroom: Brownstone duplex with an NMK (Nancy Meyers kitchen), access to the backyard and a walk-in closet. $3,850, 1-bedroom: You can make it work! I believe in you! Elegance in the Village, Brooklyn Heights, & Tunnel Heights Your product is saved! You’ll receive emails when your saved products go on sale. Manage preferences.