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We Unearthed the 31 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now

 This week we managed to find a handful of two-bedroom apartments priced under $2,500, including one in Harlem right above Central Park. By Jenny Xie
  1. The New York Real-Estate Agents Turned TikTok Stars Viral dances have nothing on apartment walk-throughs and neighborhood in-jokes.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. A $550K Chelsea Loft Studio and a Prospect Heights Two-Bedroom Plus a little red two-bedroom house in Kingsbridge that’s only a three-minute walk from the 1 train.
    By Jenny Xie
  3. It’s Time to Let the Elizabeth Street Garden Go It may be a pretty oasis, but we as a city are desperate for affordable housing.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. A $485,000 Greenwich Village Studio and a Renovated Boerum Hill One-Bedroom This week’s picks also includes a Midtown studio with checkered marble floors and a Kensington one-bedroom with a private terrace.
    By Jenny Xie
  5. An Angular Time Capsule in Ardsley Inside, there’s a cathedral-like living room with original redwood walls and ceilings, a gigantic brick fireplace, and extensive sliding glass doors.
    By Jenny Xie
  6. This Pristine ’60s Ranch Is Actually From … 2021? It came together with dead-stock appliances and a half-century-old blueprint.
    By Emma Alpern
  7. A $369K Sunnyside One-Bedroom and a Hudson Heights Convertible Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also include a Park Slope one-bedroom with a sunken living room.
    By Jenny Xie
  8. River Ring Gets Okayed, With 13 Conditions Smaller towers, more affordable apartments, and a slew of other requirements.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. A $22.5M Apartment at 740 Park Goes From a Mnuchin to a Tisch Lacey Tisch, the daughter of Loews magnate Andrew Tisch, is the buyer of Steve Mnuchin’s apartment. Oddly placed black toilet included.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. A $375K Forest Hills One-Bedroom and a Carroll Gardens Loft This week’s picks also includes a 1910 Cypress Hills rowhouse and a renovated two-bedroom in Morningside Heights.
    By Jenny Xie
  11. The “Horrendous” Luxury Rentals That Need Gut Renovations After Just a Decade The life cycle of a high-end building is getting shorter.
    By Kim Velsey
  12. Comedian Aparna Nancherla’s Week in Zillow Saves “I am immediately onboard with an architect’s house, because they’re gonna know what they’re doing.”
    By Jenny Xie
  13. The Village’s Skinniest Townhouse Is for Sale Yet Again It never gets any wider, but the price keeps going up.
    By Kim Velsey
  14. Why Does Jeff Bezos Love This Unremarkable Building in the West 20s So Much? He’s assembled 25,000 square feet on a not-especially-pretty stretch of middle Fifth Avenue.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. Why Was It So Hard to Sell a House That Promised Eternal Life? The strange Bioscleave House took an even stranger path to find a buyer.
    By Diana Budds
  16. A $598K Three-Bedroom in Concourse and a Colorful Flatbush Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also include a convertible three-bedroom on the Upper West Side.
    By Jenny Xie
  17. A Bay Ridge House With an Italian Villa Feel (Wine Grotto Included) One of the most striking features the current owners added are the barrel-vaulted ceilings in the family room.
    By Jenny Xie
  18. So Long, 666 Fifth Avenue Its past lives included Noguchi art, a cigar lounge, that satanic address, and Jared Kushner.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  19. Barneys, Deader Than Ever, Is Becoming a Spirit Halloween Retail apocalypse made manifest.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. A $375K Hudson Heights Prewar Studio and a Huge Jackson Heights Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also includes a huge Jackson Heights two-bedroom.
    By Jenny Xie
  21. A 1961 A-frame on the Connecticut Shoreline This waterfront home in Sachem’s Head, a tiny hamlet on a 600-acre peninsula, is on the market for the very first time.
    By Jenny Xie
  22. Equinox Has Decided That No, It Will Not Pay Its Rent Which is, apparently, absolutely fine.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. A $575K Greenwich Village Studio and a Harlem Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also includes a Brooklyn Heights apartment with two skylights and fireplaces.
    By Jenny Xie
  24. Wait, Calvin Klein Just Sold Another $85 Million House? Don’t worry, he has more.
    By Kim Velsey
  25. Billionaires Can’t Get Enough of 220 Central Park South It’s eclipsed One57, where apartments are selling at a loss.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. A $525K NoMad Studio and a Boerum Hill Two-Bedroom with a Multi-Level Backyard Plus an Upper West Side studio with gold tin ceilings and a balcony.
    By Jenny Xie
  27. A Rare Brooklyn Townhouse Listing: Unrenovated, Unstaged, and Filled to the Brim “Literal crime scene” or just someone’s messy home? Either way, it will sell.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. An Early Richard Meier House (With Two Pools) in New Jersey Horse Country Inside, sculptural curved walls gently separate living spaces, while public areas are anchored by minimalist built-in furniture.
    By Jenny Xie
  29. Two People, One Room, 16 Months: The Studio-Apartment Couples of the Pandemic Zoom in the bathroom, Netflix every night.
    By Kim Velsey
  30. A $369K Upper East Side Alcove Studio and a Park Slope Two-Bedroom Plus a rare townhouse triplex (with a private roof terrace) on the Upper West Side.
    By Jenny Xie
  31. Can Rockefeller Center Ever Be Hip? Tishman Speyer attempts a retail revolution in peak midtown.
    By Kim Velsey
  32. A $675K West Village One-Bedroom and a Boerum Hill Corner Duplex Plus a Fort Greene brownstone apartment with a lovely private terrace.
    By Jenny Xie
  33. Julianne Moore Sells Her West Village Townhouse for $15 Million It took two listings, 12 years, and an ‘Architectural Digest’ feature, but the actress has finally sold her West Village home.
    By Kim Velsey
  34. Got an Old Power Plant Lying Around? Crypto Miners Are Buying Them Up They’ll take denim mills, airplane hangars, and aluminum smelters too.
    By Sophie Haigney
  35. A $369K Williamsburg Studio and a Bushwick Two-Bedroom With a Hot Tub Plus a sunny prewar one-bedroom in Washington Heights.
    By Jenny Xie
  36. The Man Behind L.A.’s Megamansions Ramtin Ray Nosrati is a developer for our new Gilded Age.
    By Adrian Chen
  37. Inside Austin’s Wild Real-Estate Market Homes going $850,000 above asking, 96 offers in one weekend, and more tales from America’s most intense housing frenzy.
    By Paul L. Underwood
  38. The Co-Living Start-ups That Survived the Pandemic Are Merging — and Flourishing The pandemic brought consolidation to the co-living industry. Could it also bring an end to all the utopian rhetoric?
    By Kim Velsey
  39. A Woman Turned a Room in Her Brownstone Into an All-Pink Content-Creation Studio It’s doing so well, the owner is turning another room in the building into an all-mint-colored version.
    By Jenny Xie
  40. The Hostel Has Closed on Nantucket The Star of the Sea — a cheap place to be — has been purchased and, yes, kicked the bucket.
    By Kim Velsey
  41. Daniel Humm Buys $14.5 Million Co-op from Chipotle Founder The Eleven Madison Park Chef is moving to lower Fifth Avenue.
    By Kim Velsey
  42. Going Back to the Office Means Long Island City’s Rent Deals Are Over Long Island City rents are sharply on the rise as white collar workers flood back into the city. They’re up 5.82 percent in May over April.
    By Kim Velsey
  43. My Toilet Is My Office In April of 2020, about a month into full-time working from home with her husband and two kids, Niamh Sproul decided something had to change.
    By Jenny Xie
  44. The Turreted Royal Tenenbaums House Is for Rent A few rooms still feel vaguely Wes Anderson-esque.
    By Jenny Xie
  45. A Bed-Stuy Brownstone With Tons of (Well-Preserved) Hand-Carved Wood The current owner, who has lived in the house for well over 50 years, made many upgrades while protecting original details.
    By Jenny Xie
  46. Rufus Wainwright’s Self-Described ‘Dump’ of a Pied-à-Terre Is for Sale The Gramercy Park studio, which Wainwright once called “a total dump,” is pretty tiny (but it still has thousand-dollar wallpaper).
    By Jenny Xie
  47. You Can Now Rent Alison Roman’s Apartment It’s located in Boerum Hill, or, as Roman calls the neighborhood, “the Paris of Brooklyn.”
    By Brock Colyar
  48. Overshareholders! Co-op Boards May Have to Disclose Why They’re Rejecting People They’re bracing for lawsuits.
    By Caroline Spivack
  49. ‘Chief Pencil Lady’ Caroline Weaver’s Week in Zillow Saves “My three strongest home fantasies are: buying an old Girl Scout or Boy Scout camp, a Usonian house, or a really, really, really old house in Italy.”
    By Jenny Xie
  50. What If Compass Is Basically Just Like Every Other Real-Estate Brokerage? Except with a nicer logo and an over-leveraged IPO.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
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