This prewar Sutton Place one-bedroom with many preserved original details, as shown in this listing photo, is a neighborhood classic.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
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, we have a one-bedroom on Sutton Place with original details (and very Sutton Place furnishings) as well as an airy East Village one-bedroom with a skylight.
419 E. 57th Street, Apt. 11E
The apartment has plenty of space for entertaining, such as the foyer and oversize living room, as shown in this listing photo.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
This prewar Sutton Place one-bedroom is a neighborhood “classic,” per the listing, and it’s hard to disagree. The place has maintained its charm with preserved original details like solid-hardwood floors and plaster molding crowning the high beamed ceilings. (Not that a buyer couldn’t easily shed the antiquities-cabinet aesthetic with their own touches.) There’s a spacious dining foyer, an oversize living room, and a “sparkling-white kitchen,” which includes a Sub-Zero refrigerator; plus, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods are both roughly two blocks away. The monthlies are just a hair above $2,100, covering a 24-hour doorman and live-in resident manager, along with a gym and planted roof deck that honestly looks quite nice.
217 E. 5th Street, Apt. 8
The living area of this airy East Village walk-up, as shown in this listing photo, suggests undergrad interior-design taste with the combination of a deer head and toile-pattern wallpaper.
Photo: Argo Residential
This East Village prewar unit is being marketed as “expansive,” which isn’t a total stretch. The ceilings indeed soar 11 feet to meet the exposed-brick walls, while the chef’s kitchen, which includes an electric stove, boasts a skylight that helps give the space a sense of airiness. (The natural light from the oversize windows on both sides of the apartment doesn’t hurt either.) Despite the living area’s combo of deer head and toile-pattern wallpaper giving art-student vibes (as does the apartment’s lone walk-in closet), the building has some standards. Per the listing: “Parents Buying for Student Child(ren) — Not Allowed.” (Parents buying for “Employed Child(ren),” however? Totally kosher.) Maintenance fees are $1,339 a month, and the building is mostly coasting on its (quite good) location: There’s a virtual doorman but not much else in the way of amenities.
55 Pineapple Street, Apt. 4G
This budget-friendly studio on a Brooklyn Heights “fruit street” comes with white-oak hardwood flooring, as shown in this listing photo.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
A budget spot on a “fruit street,” this Brooklyn Heights studio opens with a pretty spacious foyer and is just a few square feet shy of a one-bedroom. After the windowed kitchen, a curved hallway leads past two of the unit’s three closets to the living-slash-sleeping area, which has white-oak hardwood floors. Monthly maintenance is a very appealing $629 (less than half that of other studios in the area), and it gets you some good basics: bike storage and laundry in the building. Also of note: the interior courtyard lined with weeping-cherry and Japanese laurel trees. The Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park are just blocks away, as is Henry Street, home to neighborhood joints like Henry’s End and Vineapple, which are popular among the remote-worker crowd.
118 Suffolk Street, Apt. 2D
This one-bedroom duplex in a townhouse once owned by “Baby Jane” Holzer has statusy finishes like a Liebherr fridge and custom-made breakfast bar, as shown in this listing photo.
Photo: Sotheby’s International Realty
An inscribed stone at the front of this Suffolk Street townhouse lets pedestrians and building guests alike know Andy Warhol’s first superstar, “Baby Jane” Holzer, once owned this townhouse turned 13-unit co-op. Beyond a two-degrees-removed Warhol connection, this duplex one-bedroom has statusy finishes (like a Liebherr refrigerator). The exposed brick and decorative fireplace, plus what’s described as a “custom-made breakfast bar,” are nice touches too. There’s a soaking tub in the bathroom where you can meditate on the meaning of fame. Monthlies are a cool $1,301.