This Brooklyn Heights one-bedroom on the promenade, as seen in listing photos, has a corner nook with a view of the East River.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Corcoran
For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points.
This week, a one-bedroom on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with East River views.
160 Columbia Heights, Apt. 4C
This Brooklyn Heights one-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, has large rooms and a room-size foyer, which has built-ins, including a lighted secretary desk for working from home.
Photo: Corcoran
A large and lovely one-bedroom in an Art Deco co-op on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, this apartment has corner windows overlooking the East River and a built-in window seat. The living room is big and bright, with herringbone floors and high, beamed ceilings, which also extend over to the spacious bedroom. The apartment has other prewar details as well: windows in every room, a room-size foyer, and what appears to be the original tile in the bathroom. The building has an elevator and a part-time doorman and is located about three blocks from the Clark Street 2/3 station in the Brooklyn Heights historic district. (You won’t have to worry about a developer replacing any of the neighboring buildings with a tower.) All that space in a prime location comes with a cost, however: The apartment is on the pricey side and the maintenance is $1,896 a month, which is high for a Brooklyn one-bedroom.
633 East 11th Street, #23
This East Village apartment, as shown in listing photos, is full of character: pocket doors, hardwood floors painted black, exposed brick, and a tub in the kitchen.
Photo: Compass
This one-bedroom is very East Village, with its railroad-style layout, black hardwood floors, exposed brick, and, yes, a bathtub in the kitchen (although in this renovated apartment, it’s discreetly tucked behind what appears to be an opaque sliding door). The place has plenty of character, with pocket doors, a sizable kitchen for the apartment, and north-facing windows. There’s a water closet in the back of the apartment with two stairs up to the toilet, which is a little strange, but hardly unworkable. On the top floor of a walk-up, this apartment is on a pretty, tree-lined block between Avenues B and C but is far from the subway. (The First Avenue L train or buses are really the option unless you walk to Union Square, almost a mile away.) But the maintenance is only $900 a month, and at least you don’t have to walk to the laundromat: Washers and dryers are permitted in units.
218 East 82nd Street, #3FE
This one-bedroom in a Yorkville brownstone, as shown in listing photos, has a newish renovation, some nice original details, a living room that faces north, and a reasonable asking price.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
This one-bedroom, located in a brownstone between Second and Third, is practical and pleasant, with a recent renovation, hardwood floors, and a large, north-facing living room with a decorative brick fireplace. The railroad-style layout has the living room at the front, a walk-through kitchen directly off the tiny foyer, and a little bedroom in the back. (Small, with windows that look out onto the wall of the next-door building, it’s really only a space for sleeping.) Still the apartment has a reasonable maintenance fee of $935 a month, it’s asking slightly less than it sold for in 2019, and it’s in a transit-accessible location surrounded by stores and restaurants, about five blocks from the Met and Central Park.
20 Plaza Street East, Apt. C7
This Prospect Heights two-bedroom, as seen in listing photos, is 1,200 square feet, with a huge living room, primary bedroom, and foyer.
Photo: Corcoran
This corner two-bedroom co-op is well priced, especially considering the neighborhood, its genteel prewar layout, and what appears to be generally quite good condition. The apartment is 1,200 square feet, according to the listing, and has parquet floors, a really large living room, and a massive primary bedroom that’s 20 feet long. (Which could, as an alternate floor plan shows, be divided into two separate rooms, although it would be a shame to compromise the airiness of the apartment by cramming an extra room in.) The second bedroom is on the smaller side, but it’s decently sized and shaped, with a window and closet. There’s also a dining area, a separate kitchen, and a big foyer. Located close by Prospect Park and the 2/3 train, in a full-service elevator building with a playroom, with not-bad maintenance of $1,782 a month.