< img src =" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/d31/82c/3783aaaa44d4b0b8f39ce2bb55d453899f-146-Fenimore-Street--C1-lede.rhorizontal.w700.jpg "width=" 700" height =" 467"/ > 146 Fenimore Street, C1, in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Photo-Illustration: Suppressed; Photos: Keller Williams Real Estate Empire
Listen, it’s not as though getting an apartment or condo in New york city has ever been simple. But one could most likely argue it has never been more difficult than it is right now. The most god-awful studios are regularly renting for thousands and thousands of dollars with lines of interested tenants out the door. Here, we’ll discover the actually worth-looking-ats, the actually worth-the-costs, and the remarkably affordable-for-those-parquet-floors from around the web.
Since I have actually been overlooking New Jersey for months, I headed to Weehawken, North Bergen, and Hoboken today to see what was on offer. Unfortunately, it turns out there’s quite a lot– for a fair bit less cash. Ya hate to see it. If the course isn’t your thing, I also made stops in Brooklyn and Queens, hitting Astoria, Possibility– Lefferts Gardens, Bed-Stuy, and Possibility Heights. Along the way, I discovered a lot to like in the quiet enclave of Kensington, which is sort of the Weehawken of Brooklyn? I’m still workshopping that contrast. Stay tuned for a special dispatch on AI-generated StreetEasy citizens towards the bottom.
$ 2,200, 2-bedroom: An extremely Harry Potter attic home.
$ 2,500, 3-bedroom: An entire free-standing red brick home for that cost?? Pinch me, I should remain in Jersey.
$ 3,500, 3-bedroom: Similar wedding-cake-style, free-standing home that’s not as cheap as the above but still quite inexpensive for a whole home. Bad lighting components and strong hardwoods throughout.
$ 4,750, studio: In case you have an interest in taking over the lease of a nail beauty parlor.
< img data-src= "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/b49/1f9/69fd3eb96cdd70f2c17f298fcdd5c0fe52-21-49th-Street--1-2.rhorizontal.w700.jpg" width =" 700" height="467″ src =” https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/b49/1f9/69fd3eb96cdd70f2c17f298fcdd5c0fe52-21-49th-Street–1-2.rhorizontal.w700.jpg”/ > From left: 21 49th Street, # 1, in Weehawken, New Jersey. Image: Serhant New Jersey LLC Picture: Serhant New JerseyLLC From top: 21 49th Street, # 1, in Weehawken, New Jersey. Picture
: Serhant New Jersey LLC Image: Serhant New Jersey LLC$ 2,650, 2-bedroom: First-floor home of this whole San Francisco– esque clapboard house. Strong bones and bay windows, captivating pocket doors, and radiators that function as decorative objets.
$ 3,300, 3-bedroom: Simply another free-standing house with washer-dryer, backyard, area to park your car– all the suburban features, really.
$ 2.100, 1-bedroom: Bright, capacious, and inexpensive as heck.
$ 2,400, 1-bedroom: Cool design and some actually bad drapes– but if you squint and look past them, you’ll be able to construct out the parquet capacity and the perfect shade of baby-pink ceramic restroom tiling.
$ 2,750, studio: A business loft that’s technically not for living as there’s no kitchen. But who needs a kitchen when you’re satiated by all that square video!
$ 3,300, 1-bedroom: WBFA (wood-burning fireplace alert).
< img data-src=" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/1e6/8b1/5fdea5cede55773aa425f8806356ad9397-200-Hudson-Street--4A.rhorizontal.w700.jpg" width=" 700" height=" 467" src =" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/1e6/8b1/5fdea5cede55773aa425f8806356ad9397-200-Hudson-Street--4A.rhorizontal.w700.jpg"/ >$ 4,000, 2-bedroom: Two lessons here: One, this is a strong example of how not to stage a house. 2, look past the staging and you’ll see prewar potential.
$ 7,000, studio: A commercial area in a transformed church that’s honestly left me speechless.
< img data-src= "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/4ee/ef6/5af3d54bde07c8da378311caaedf734311-1225-Willow-Avenue--1-2.rhorizontal.w700.jpg" width="
700″ height=” 467 “src=” https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/4ee/ef6/5af3d54bde07c8da378311caaedf734311-1225-Willow-Avenue–1-2.rhorizontal.w700.jpg”/ >From left: Image: Coldwell Banker Real Estate
Photo: Coldwell Banker Realty From top: Photo: Coldwell Banker Real Estate Photo: Coldwell Lender Real Estate$ 3,800, 3-bedroom: Triple hazard: excellent parquets, good wainscoting, and a two-block walk to the park.
$ 3,600, 2-bedroom: Another two-block walk from the park. Good bones here– though, tragically, they altered a little too dark on the stained floorings.
35 Clarkson Avenue, # 4D, in Prospect Lefferts Garden. Image: REAL New York City
$ 2,800, 1-bedroom: Relatively low-cost and absolutely fine.
$ 4,500, 2-bedroom: Capital-B built-ins at every turn: in the foyer as a bench, in the kitchen for your spices, in the living room for your books. Love that!
< img data-src=" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/90a/e7a/f20a805ba8f88dc08b3c40813ee83c8206-135-Ocean-Parkway--1M.rhorizontal.w700.jpg" width=" 700 "height= "467" src =" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/90a/e7a/f20a805ba8f88dc08b3c40813ee83c8206-135-Ocean-Parkway--1M.rhorizontal.w700.jpg "/ >$ 3,000, 4-bedroom: Yes, the overhead lighting is similar to your strip-mall dental expert’s workplace, but the extra-wide wood planks do an excellent job of carrying you elsewhere completely.
$ 3,450, 1-bedroom: The lease is seriously climbing up in Bed-Stuy, but the floorings here are best.
$ 3,650, 1-bedroom: They overengineered the reno here, however the light is best and there’s a substantial yard (that’s totally paved over).
$ 5,700, 4-bedroom: Can’t inform if it’s just improperly staged or if there’s a more systemic style concern at play. However 4 bedrooms is a great deal of bedrooms in either case.
< img data-src=" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/014/43e/d0445cbf1a1fab9319d3b232034969aed7-464-Macon-Street--2.rhorizontal.w700.jpg" width =" 700" height=" 467" src= "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/014/43e/d0445cbf1a1fab9319d3b232034969aed7-464-Macon-Street--2.rhorizontal.w700.jpg"/ > $ 3,600, 1-bedroom: A prewar that I have actually noted in the past and will note once again until it’s rented!
I spend a great deal of my weeks wandering through the facsimiles of houses on StreetEasy. As with whatever else, AI has actually been sneaking into the imagery, sticking out like an aching (and often lengthened) thumb, developing uncanny renderings of spaces that shouldn’t be that brilliant, couldn’t possibly be that big, and absolutely don’t come supplied quite like that.
Recently, though, I have actually seen something brand-new: the development of fake (or badly photoshopped) individuals. To borrow one of AI’s favorite phrases, it’s been a quiet emergence. So I started collecting these pictures of a little deformed unicorns roaming through high-end apartments– because who knows how much longer we’ll get to peer through this weird little window before the innovation becomes alarmingly skilled and becomes the view itself.
< img data-src=" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/f3e/1e2/154c5947f499b4fa0a42ce7c95d7475be0-Screenshot-2025-06-24-55-PM.rhorizontal.w700.png "width=" 700 "height =" 467 "src= "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/f3e/1e2/154c5947f499b4fa0a42ce7c95d7475be0-Screenshot-2025-06-24-55-PM.rhorizontal.w700.png"/ > A listing picture that seems to have actually utilized AI to fill a living room with people, including what appears to be two twins.
This one above belongs in the Met, and I’ll call it: Numbered Beers and Outnumbered Toes.
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/ > Exceptional valley in the heart of the village.< img data-src=" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/595/0fe/450d2216c14ae39e690a3f15c4044b07c0-Screenshot-2026-05-0619-PM.rhorizontal.w700.png" width 
=” 700 “height =” 467″ src=” https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/595/0fe/450d2216c14ae39e690a3f15c4044b07c0-Screenshot-2026-05-0619-PM.rhorizontal.w700.png “/ > Scenes from the Allbirds launch celebration. Right before he informs you he wants to watch the new season of Ecstasy. Attractive in all the wrong methods! It’s the Barney’s New york city bag that’s the telltale sign here.< img data-src= "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/3ba/a28/e230868e69551a7a60527fd3565fd0b4f4-full-breakdown-.rhorizontal.w700.png" width=" 
700″ height=” 467
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No variety of bedrooms could accommodate this lots of wide-brim hats.< img data-src =" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/582/8ff/d71b852b08abf8bf01825c4cbd4f2e95a3-120-Nassau-Street--13G-3.rhorizontal.w700.jpg" width=" 700" height=" 467 "src= "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/582/8ff/d71b852b08abf8bf01825c4cbd4f2e95a3-120-Nassau-Street--13G-3.rhorizontal.w700.jpg"/ > Image: Compass When in doubt, hats.< img data-src=" https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/693/e95/9e1a99b75eece6505ddc094f511a6ca97c-Screenshot-2026-05-1951-PM.rhorizontal.w700.png" width=” 700″ height =” 467″ src=” https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/693/e95/9e1a99b75eece6505ddc094f511a6ca97c-Screenshot-2026-05-1951-PM.rhorizontal.w700.png”/ > 
I value that nobody involved looked at these two animation corgis and thought, Perhaps we’ve gone too far. Image: The Anthem NYC Excellent old-fashioned Photoshop to make things feel charming. Kind of cozy, no?
Image: The Anthem NYC
The view is real. The couple remains under examination.
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