This two-bedroom apartment in Ditmas Park, as seen in this listing photo, has nicely maintained parquet floors.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Douglas Elliman
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 some sneaky two-bedrooms and a tranquil little spot in Brooklyn Heights.
175 Columbia Heights, 4R
As seen in this listing photo, the windows are wide and squat with lovely wood casing.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
Look at that wood casing on the living room’s oversize, wonderfully squat windows. (If you put those in a public restroom I might want to live there, too.) This one-bedroom co-op right off the Brooklyn Heights Promenade has lots to like: nicely maintained parquet, classic tiling in the bathroom, backyard-facing quiet, and a good amount of storage that includes a walk-in closet. The kitchen is small and could use a refresh — maybe even just a good rug and one of those Tulip shades over that fixture, yikes. But it’s hard not to be charmed by a tree-lined strip in Brooklyn Heights. (The listing kind of knows that, too: L’Appartement 4F gets a name-check.) Monthlies are $1,271 and don’t get you a ton — it’s a walkup, for example — but the previous owner sure seemed to like it there: It appears the place last turned over in 1997.
25 West 64th Street #7D
The living room in this Lincoln Square one-bedroom, as seen in this listing photo, has lovely beamed ceilings.
A one-bedroom co-op in a prewar elevator building that’s basically equidistant from Central Park and Lincoln Center is hard to argue with. The space itself is quite lovely too: The living room has beamed ceilings, nice built-ins, herringbone floors, and two closets. The placement of the small windowed kitchen off the living room creates dual exposures, which is nice for those days when you burn a pan and need a little cross breeze. Monthlies are $1,471 and get you internet and cable, a virtual doorman, laundry in the building, and a bike room. The listing calls the apartment quintessential New York, and I won’t disagree.
35-30 73rd Street, 6A
As seen in this listing photo, this prewar one-bedroom has nice details like arched doorways.
Photo: Compass
Jackson Heights delivers again. We’ve got an oversize one-bedroom co-op on a leafy section of 73rd Street that’s just a few minutes away from the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue station, its many transit options, and many, many, many restaurant offerings. As for the apartment itself, it’s a top-floor unit with well-maintained hardwood floors, a Home Depot–ish (but nice-size) eat-in kitchen, segmented archways, and timeless black-and-white tiling in the bathroom. (Please keep the peach tub.) The windowed and bright bedroom is currently split into two smaller rooms, which might be handy if you have a young kid or want some sort of office setup. If not, at least per the listing, there’s minimal work involved in taking down the wall put in by the previous owners. Monthlies are a humane $812 and will get you the basics: laundry in the basement, storage for a fee, live-in super, and an elevator. (You’ll want it — you’re on the top floor, after all.)
385 Argyle Road, 3B
As seen in this listing photo, this two-bedroom apartment in Ditmas Park has lovely hardwood floors.
Photo: Douglas Elliman
I swear I’m really working to find you two-bedrooms, but this might be a tease: A two-bedroom co-op in an elevator building that is actually an oversize one bedroom with a cleverly placed French door dividing up the primary. What’s nice about the arrangement is there are windows in both of the smaller rooms, but the rooms are tight — realistically you’ve either got your toddler in there or a desk. That said, the rest of the apartment is spacious and bright. The windowed, eat-in kitchen has been recently updated and includes a dishwasher (small pleasures). The foyer is a nice size, too. (A “dining foyer,” as they call it, but that is never a concept that has made sense to me.) Charming parquet in the living room, nice arch details in the entryways, and reasonable monthlies — $977 — get you laundry in the building, a bike room, and lock and key storage. It’s also in a nice little spot in the neighborhood: You’re on the block with a playground, a library, and the local elementary school. The Q and the Flatbush Food Co-op are minutes away, and you’ve got a Citi Bike station on your corner. Not a bad way to live.