A lovely office, as seen in this listing photo, at 50 Sutton Place South.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Compass
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, it’s simple pleasures in Brooklyn Heights and dated glory in Forest Hills and Sutton Place.
166 Hicks Street, 4R
As seen in this listing photo, this one-bedroom at 166 Hicks Street has treetop views.
Photo: Corcoran
There’s lots to like about this one-bedroom co-op on Hicks Street: It’s the top floor of a brownstone on a leafy little stretch of the block (that’s also just around the corner from the Clark Street station). The living room is small but has western exposures and a lot of sky. The rest is modest and lovely: A kitchen with warm wooden cabinetry and a dishwasher. The bedroom is nicely sized, and there’s a walk-in closet off the bathroom with a good amount of storage and a stacked washer and dryer. Maintenance is $820, and while there’s nary an amenity to speak of, there is more storage in the basement. I’d replace all of the gold hardware but I won’t tell you how to live your life.
599 Warren Street, 3LF
As seen in this listing photo, the living room’s southern exposures mean all-day light in this one bedroom at 599 Warren Street.
Photo: Corcoran
A one-bedroom co-op on the border of Boerum Hill and Park Slope. (The spiral staircase here is a Rorschach test but it does make it a duplex — so.) The living room has southern exposures for all-day light and a working fireplace; the kitchen is a 90s Home Depot riff on mid-century modern that appeals to me. The downstairs bedroom has its own southern exposures — you’re not in a basement, miraculously — and a smart little shelving system I’d ask the current owners about leaving for you. The bathroom is no-frills, but you do have a stacked washer and dryer. We are again in the land of the bare-bones co-op, but it’s a fine place to be: Maintenance is $651 and the last owner liked it enough to stay for a decade.
68-10 108th Street, 2F
As seen in this listing photo, this two-bedroom at 68-10 108th Street is extremely spacious.
Photo: Keller Williams Realty Landmark
A sprawling two-bedroom, two-bathroom, corner unit co-op in a landmarked building. Life could be so good in Forest Hills. The place is 1,400 square feet, there’s a working fireplace in the living room, which also has multiple exposures thanks to a little office that’s set apart with French doors. Each of the two bedrooms, also nicely sized and closeted, have their own set of French doors leading onto a private terrace. The kitchen is dated as heck but roomy enough and windowed. The building also has a stone porch where you can do some thinking (about how good your life is in Forest Hills). Maintenance is going to sting at $2,311 a month, but it gets you a doorman, laundry, bike storage, regular storage, and a garden courtyard. It’s not the closest to the subway, though — about a ten-minute walk to the 71st Street–Continental station and general commerce on Queens Boulevard.
50 Sutton Place South, 11H
The light at 50 Sutton Place South, as seen in this listing photo, is quite glowy.
Photo: Compass
Another enormous old co-op, this time in Sutton Place. Comically spacious and listed as a one-bedroom, but could easily be a two-bed, two-bath stunner. It’s dated, but luxuriously so — I’d keep all of it. There are built-ins upon built-ins, a private terrace, and accidentally chic-again butter-yellow cabinetry in the galley kitchen. A perfect patina on the parquets, and same goes for the mahogany study that could be your second bedroom. Maintenance is $2,867 but it’s a white-glove co-op on Sutton Place South and will get you 24-hour doorman and concierge service, a resident manager, fitness center, laundry, storage, and a garage. There’s also a park and a dog run at the end of the block — nice since it’s a “pets welcome” building.