Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Image: Douglas Elliman For under a million dollars, one can discover all sorts of real estate configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms concealed in carriage homes or former shoe factories, and even the periodic real two-bedroom. We’re combing the marketplace for especially spacious, perfectly refurbished, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit rate points.
Today, we have distance to parks.
125 Hawthorne Street, 3H
125 Hawthorne Street. Photo: Compass A one-bedroom co-op that’s a number of blocks off Prospect Park and perfectly situated between multiple train lines (the B, Q, 2, and 5). The design here is a bit unusual but appears to stream: You get in through a small upgraded kitchen (no dishwashing machine, decent storage); keep straight and there’s a hallway with classic built-ins and a closet that causes the bathroom (timeless black-and-white tile, well maintained) and a large-scale bed room with 2 additional closets. The living-room is off the other side of the kitchen and equally oversize, which is maybe why the last owner carved out a windowless “perk space” that’s presently staged as a nursery. It’s a timeless prewar elevator building, which suggests no genuine frills other than laundry in the basement and an Amazon bundle hub. That’s likewise reflected in the affordable monthlies, which are just $789.
151 Lenox Opportunity, # 5
151 Lenox Avenue. Image: Brown Harris Stevens A top-floor one-bedroom, 1.5 bath hybrid on Lenox Avenue that’s just above Central Park. The living-room is spacious, with 3 large-scale windows and 11-foot ceilings. The open cooking area off the living-room looks like it’s been upgraded– the listing describes it as a “chef’s kitchen area,” though there are no appliance details. There is, nevertheless, a great hood vent and a beautiful skylight. The bedroom is on the opposite end of the home, which suggests a pleasing cross breeze through the dual east-west exposures. It’s also large enough for a king and comes with a closet. The full bath in the bed room is refurbished and has a tub; the half-bath in the living-room is a great bonus. The listing is pitching this place as a penthouse, which may be a little bit of language creep but implies you have a private roof-deck and it’s almost as long as the apartment or condo itself. Typical charges are $965, and there’s an in-unit washer and clothes dryer.
57 East 75th Street, 1F
57 East 57th Street. Picture: Douglas Elliman A funny co-op triplex on East 75th, explained in the listing as using a “direct access lifestyle usually scheduled for multi-million-dollar townhouses”– you can get in from the street, to put it simply. It’s a modest footprint stacked over 3 levels, but, luckily, separated by a proper staircase (no spirals). The living-room has four south-facing windows and a wood-burning fireplace. The kitchen area upstairs is sweet with cream cabinets and a breakfast banquet nook. There are likewise marble counter tops and a Wolf gas range. The third floor is the bedroom– there are 3 direct exposures, a walk-in closet, and a just recently refurbished restroom. I’m charmed by the whole thing, ridiculous as it may be. The monthlies are reflective of the community at $2,186 a month, but there’s free laundry in the basement, you’re blocks off the park, rather near Museum Mile, and basically living a little dream of life on the Upper East Side– except for the exterior of the building. Would we call it brutalist? (The Breuer Structure is just down the block.)
940 Fulton Street, PHA
940 Fulton Street. Picture: Douglas Elliman
A one-bedroom apartment described in the listing as “loft living.” (The ceilings certainly fit the part at 13 feet.) The living-room has large-scale windows, a great deal of exposed brick, and an open-concept kitchen with bar/island seating, a farmhouse sink, full-size Bosch home appliances, a five-burner variety, and a Fisher & Paykel refrigerator. The bed room is queen-size and has a walk-in closet. Floors throughout are beautiful wide-plank hardwoods. The bathroom is simple with what appears like a fresh tiling job and a tub. There’s split A/C, a video intercom, and a connection for a washer-dryer, too. As soon as once again, we have some penthouse creep occurring in the listing for what’s just the top-floor of a walkup, however there is a shared roofing system deck (The building is on Fulton, so being high above the street is, in truth, a major perk.) Common charges are $828, but there’s a $711 per month assessment for six months.
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