The living room of this two-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, overlooks Sunset Park, which the Finnish co-op building sits directly on.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
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’s apartments include a treehouselike two-bedroom in Sunset Park directly on the park and a one-bedroom with a working fireplace right by Billionaires’ Row.
The living and dining room of the Sunset Park two-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, takes up the full length of the apartment — nearly 24 feet — with a number of windows overlooking the park.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
The living and dining room in this two-bedroom co-op is an exceptionally lovely, treehouselike space, nearly 24 feet long with big windows overlooking Sunset Park. In fact, all the common spaces are nice: The renovated kitchen has penny-tile floors, a Bertazzoni oven, a Bosch dishwasher, and a Liebherr fridge, and the bathroom has restored original fixtures including a pedestal sink and cast-iron clawfoot tub. And the apartment is full of pretty prewar details besides: crown moldings, embossed wainscotting, pine floors with walnut inlay. The bedrooms are, however, on the smaller side with less impressive views of neighboring buildings. One has a Murphy bed to make the most of the space. The apartment is located in one of the Finnish co-ops, a group of well-run buildings in the neighborhood constructed by Finnish immigrants in the early 1990s, and has stained-glass windows in the stairwell and a private storage cage in the basement, along with building-wide bike storage and laundry. Like all Finnish co-ops, this four-story building is a well-maintained walk-up with low monthlies of $952. Less typically, it allows pets. The R train is a few blocks away.
This Midtown one-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, is a comfortable spot with beamed ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace in the living room, close to Central Park and just about everything else.
Photo: SP Realty
Billionaire’s Row — the stretch of 57th Street below Central Park that’s studded with ultraluxury skyscrapers — is just a block away from this comfortable, comparatively modest 1912 co-op. The high-floor apartment has a large living room with high ceilings, original moldings, and a wood-burning fireplace. The bedroom is also sizable, and there’s a small but functional kitchen with a straightforward renovation, as well as a washer and dryer in the apartment. The nine-story building has a part-time doorman, a somewhat reasonable maintenance of $1,771 a month, and allows pieds-à-terre, pets, guarantors, and subletting. Central Park is only about a block away, and the location is exceedingly convenient: close to Columbus Circle, Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center, the Plaza District, the Theater District, and nearly every train line in the city.
This prewar one-bedroom in a Lenox Hill co-op has nice features, as shown in listing photos, like a wood-burning fireplace in the living room, built-in shelving, and hardwood floors, but it hasn’t been recently renovated.
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This large one-bedroom apartment — it’s about 840 square feet — is filled with prewar details: a wood-burning fireplace in the living room, built-in shelving, hardwood floors, beamed ceilings, and big windows. There are five closets, including a walk-in, a small foyer, and even a little dining room that overlooks the building’s front garden. The downside is that it hasn’t been renovated recently and lacks some modern niceties, like central air and a dishwasher. But it’s fairly well-priced with reasonable monthlies of $1,859 for a full-service building with a decent slate of amenities: There’s a full-time doorman, a concierge, a landscaped roof terrace, a gym, a children’s playroom, and a laundry room. Located by Second Avenue, close to the Q train and a few blocks from the M66 crosstown bus.
This Brooklyn Heights one-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, is on the first floor of a prewar co-op with a marble lobby. Its living room looks out onto a landscaped courtyard.
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A prewar one-bedroom with a recent, tasteful renovation, this apartment isn’t sprawling, but it’s nicely laid out and well-priced for the neighborhood. There’s a decent-size bedroom with a wall of built-in cabinets for storage, and the living room is also spacious enough, though the kitchen is carved out of one of the corners. The apartment has three closets, a small foyer, and hardwood floors with penny tile in the bathroom. While it’s on the first floor, it overlooks the landscaped back courtyard, so it’s not particularly busy or exposed. The co-op it’s located in is mostly one-bedrooms and studios and has a marble lobby, a laundry room, a bike room, and additional storage. The maintenance is a reasonable $879 a month, and the building is conveniently located, close to the retail on Montague and plenty of transit options, including the A, C, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines.
