This Park Slope apartment is full of charming prewar and modern details, including an exposed-brick wall framing a windowed dining alcove, as seen in this listing photo.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Garfield Realty
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.
Are you looking to use all of your savings to buy something right now? Maybe don’t! But if you must, we found some move-in-ready places (good luck to everyone else with renovations underway) and a few with astonishingly low monthlies in Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan.
49 Prospect Pl., Apt. 2
The monthlies at this Prospect Place co-op, seen in this listing photo, are just $500, which means low overhead in the event of a recession.
Photo: Garfield Realty
This charming Prospect Place apartment perfectly balances prewar and modern details: There’s the exposed-brick wall framing the windowed dining alcove and a slate mantel that can be converted into a working fireplace. And those built-in shutters. But it feels updated, in part thanks to a renovated kitchen with fresh-looking cabinetry and new appliances, plus the in-unit washer/dryer. According to the listing, the monthlies are just $500 because there’s no underlying mortgage, which means low overhead in the event of a recession!
192 E. 8th St., Apt. 6A
This light-filled two-bedroom co-op in Kensington, seen in this listing photo, is on the market for $10,000 less than another unit that sold down the hall in 2023.
Photo: Douglas Elliman
This top-floor apartment in a well-appointed Kensington co-op is a gem, and not just because it’s $10,000 cheaper than a two-bedroom down the hall that sold in 2023. The living room gets plenty of natural light from a pair of east-facing windows, while the bedrooms get western exposure. The subway-tiled galley kitchen, meanwhile, isn’t lacking space and comes with a Blomberg refrigerator, a Bosch dishwasher, and a GE Cafe range situated next to a window to help with ventilation. Monthlies are just $767 in the 30-unit building, which includes a shared backyard with a garden and grills, plus a basement bike room and storage cage. Prospect Park and neighborhood joints like Wheated and Der Pioneer are just blocks away, as are the F and G subway lines at the Fort Hamilton Parkway station.
175 Amity Street, Apt. D3
The kitchen in this newly renovated Cobble Hill co-op features a tin ceiling and built-in shelving, as seen in this listing photo, making quite the showpiece.
Photo: Engel and Volkers Brownstone Brooklyn
The showpiece for this freshly renovated one-bedroom apartment is an open-concept kitchen — all the more reason to cut back on dining out and entertain guests at home. There’s a vented Bertazzoni range and Bosch dishwasher but also a gorgeous tin ceiling and floor-to-ceiling built-in shelving. The living room, with stunning ten-foot ceilings and an exposed-brick wall, looks out onto the lush, tree-lined block via a south-facing bay window. At $1,356, monthlies are on the more expensive side for similarly priced units, but they include roof-deck access as well as private basement storage. For the recession-proof among us, this co-op is located near local mainstays like Henry Public and Long Island Bar.
116 Pinehurst Ave., Apt. J52
The living area of this Hudson Heights two-bedroom, as seen in a listing photo, has windows with breathtaking views of a Manhattan skyline and Heinz-red walls that can be easily painted over.
Photo: Corcoran
This two-bedroom in the century-old Hudson View Gardens co-op is worth the schlep to the northernmost reaches of Manhattan. Along with a cozy office nook, the easily repaintable Heinz-red living area has views of a Manhattan skyline and the Hudson River, while each spacious bedroom comes with expansive views and parquet floors. There are six closets, plus a pantry and a pair of dinette hutches to flaunt your fragile tchotchkes, so kiss any monthly storage fees good-bye. At just over $2,000, the maintenance fees cover a laundry list of amenities, including the meticulously maintained gardens spread out across five acres, gym access, a community room for hosting concerts and an annual arts-and-crafts fair, and bragging rights for living in a National Registry of Historic Places complex.