5 White Street Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Compass |
Hello and happy Thursday! A few gentle reminders as we head into the weekend: Don’t start a nonprofit to subsidize your luxury penthouse or teeth-whitening habit, take a break from doomscrolling Epstein’s emails to dig your car out because the alternate-side parking suspension won’t last forever, and keep saving those pennies because a Gilded Age Harlem townhouse has just hit the market for $6.5 million.
This week, we’re spanning three boroughs with a grab bag of neighborhoods — from Cobble Hill to Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn to Tribeca and the West Village in Manhattan and Astoria to Sunnyside in Queens. It’s not the friendliest market out there, but with any luck, there’s something here for everyone! |
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$2,450, studio: Cheap and charming(ish) — the name of my forthcoming memoir.
$3,400, 1-bedroom: Renovated garden apartment with not-totally-terrible-on-the-eyes built-ins in the bedroom.
$5,000, 2-bedroom: Garden level with similar square footage but twice the price. Bit of a sticker shock, and not sure why it’s so high, but the country-style kitchen is admittedly quite nice and open.
$12,500, 4-bedroom: Whole house with some masc-leaning design choices — the grays, the black accents, and the dark stain on the parquet. My least favorite choice has to be the floating bookshelf on the parlor floor … |
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219 Jefferson Avenue Photo: Sotheby’s International Realty |
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$3,995, 2-bedroom: Cutie brownstone apartment with a bright-white tiled bathroom (with a window!) and some nice wide planks in the “second” bedroom (looks more like an office to me). |
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306 Washington Avenue Photo: Douglas Elliman |
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$3,600, 1-bedroom: Obsessed with this old flophouse (sorry if that’s offensive). Great light and access to a charming courtyard, which you can get to via one of the many outside staircases. Warning that this is in a transit desert (unless you commute primarily by ferry or bike).
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417 Hicks Street Photo: Brown Harris Stevens |
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57 Middagh Street Photo: Corcoran |
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$2,200,000, 3-bedroom: Multiuse space perfect for art storage and living with your art storage, too. I particularly love the gym/sculptural studio/academy corner. |
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| $9,850, 1-bedroom: The price for Perry Street charm (which is located in the exposed beams and painted white brick walls). |
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68 Perry Street Photo: Loftey Group LLC |
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$5,495, studio: I guess charm costs the same on Christopher Street … fabulous casement window is the highlight here. |
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$14,950, 3-bedroom: LOTW (loft of the week). I like how underdone this one is with its tin ceilings, original floorboards (the kinds that give you splinters), and very few walls. As a loft should be … |
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