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.
We’ve found you a sunny Murray Hill two-bedroom with a wood-burning fireplace and a three-bedroom in Morningside Heights right by St. John the Divine.
A Murray Hill two-bedroom for $899,000
This two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment is full of prewar delights: a wood-burning fireplace, 9.5-foot beamed ceilings and oak herringbone floors. The light is good and the layout is gracious, with a nearly 22-foot-long living room, a dining area off the kitchen and two nicely proportioned bedrooms. There’s also storage space in the basement. It’s a full-service, white-glove co-op with only two apartments per floor, so the maintenance, at $3,380 a month, is on the high side, but it includes an attended elevator and mail delivery right to your door.
A Morningside Heights three-bedroom for $949,000
It’s unusual to find three bedrooms in the neighborhood for under a million, and while the layout of this co-op looks a little tight in the listing photos, the room sizes are all perfectly reasonable, even if one of the bedrooms has a bit of an unusual shape, with the wall V-ing into it (the current owners seem to be using it as a dressing area). The apartment, which also has a recently renovated bathroom, is an elevator building right by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. And the scaffolding blocking the views and the light in the listings photos is apparently about to come down.
A Park Slope one-bedroom on a coveted block for $649,900
This one-bedroom, one-bath co-op is located on Fiske Terrace, a one-block street between Garfield and Carroll, just to the west of Eighth Avenue. The apartment is unusual, too — packed with prewar details and high-end designer finishes. There’s suede wallpaper in the foyer, a kitchen paneled in reclaimed wood from a WWII shipping chest, and plenty of name-brand appliances. The owner is, per the listing, a design professional who’s also up for selling the furnishings. The building has a shared roof deck and backyard.
A three-bedroom in Prospect Park South for $825,000
This prewar co-op has two good-size bedrooms, a large living room, a windowed dining room, and a separate kitchen, all connected to a central hall — a layout that allows for many different living configurations. Every room has a window, there are five closets, hardwood floors, and original moldings. Located just off the Parade Ground that abuts Prospect Park, this apartment is on the top floor of a four-story walk-up. But in-unit washers and dryers are allowed, so you don’t have to lug your laundry to the basement if you don’t want to, and the building is pet-friendly.
