Although we’re predicting 2018 to be the year of the renter, January is off to an auspicious start for aspiring buyers out there. If your New Year’s resolution involved buying your first New York apartment, here are 11 just-listed gems to get you going.
Brooklyn: 960 Sterling Place #1C
SPACE: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $599,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Crown Heights
AGENT: Victoria Reichelt, Corcoran
HIGHLIGHTS: With a large, 2-bedroom layout, good closet space, and easy subway access, this Crown Heights co-op checks all the boxes for a lovely starter home. The reasonable price and central Crown Heights location make this find all the more appealing.
Manhattan: 514 West End Ave. #1B
SPACE: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $775,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Upper West Side
AGENT: Roxana Dorneanu and Olga Stinberg, Corcoran
HIGHLIGHTS: This 2-bedroom co-op is everything you could want from an Upper West Side apartment. Near Zabar’s, Riverside Park and the 1 train at 86th Street, its location is prime. Add to that a full-time doorman, a landmarked, prewar building, and a brand-new kitchen, and you’ve got a real gem. All that for under $800K? We’d take it.
Manhattan: 790 Riverside Drive #2C
SPACE: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $655,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Washington Heights
AGENT: Vivian Ducat, Sarah Pedersen, Halstead
HIGHLIGHTS: Up in Washington Heights, you can land a 2-bedroom co-op for under $700,000. This place is currently configured as a 1-bedroom with two living rooms, but can be converted. The apartment also offers a home office and a large kitchen. It’s located in a large, stately doorman building that just oozes Upper Manhattan character.
Queens: 77-12 35th Ave. #B21
SPACE: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $529,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Jackson Heights
AGENT: Danielle Rial, Halstead
HIGHLIGHTS: There’s no getting around it: You just get more space in Queens. This Jackson Heights 2-bedroom puts all other 2-bedrooms on this list to shame when it comes to floor plans and space. You get five closets — five! — a living room, a separate dining room, and an in eat-in kitchen with two windows. Plus, the apartment has great subway access, lying just a short walk from the Roosevelt Ave-Jackson Heights E, F, M, R, and 7 station.
Manhattan: 211 E. 18th St. #48
SPACE: Studio, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $475,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Gramercy Park
AGENT: Nancy van Bourgondien, Corcoran
HIGHLIGHTS: Good layouts and studios are usually like oil and vinegar, but here we have a happy marriage of both. This Gramercy Park studio offers enough space for a couch and dining area, plus a separate kitchen and an impressive amount of closet space.
Brooklyn: 89 Montrose Ave. #2R
SPACE: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $630,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Williamsburg
AGENT: Lior Barak, Christine Blackburn, Stephen Filipponi, Mat Gundell, and Tatiana Gorelick, Compass
HIGHLIGHTS: This brand-new condo will keep your dream of living in Williamsburg alive. Located five minutes from the J and Z trains at Lorimer, the apartment offers a solid South Williamsburg location without having to rely on the L, which is slated to shut down in 2019. It covers all the new-condo bases, with an in-unit washer and dryer, European appliances, and a common roof deck.
Brooklyn: 8175 Prospect Park Southwest #4F
SPACE: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $630,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Windsor Terrace
AGENT: Abigail Palanca, Compass
HIGHLIGHTS: This huge Windsor Terrace co-op is the stuff of newbie Brooklyn buyers’ dreams. You couldn’t ask for a better location — it’s just a short walk to the F and G trains, and directly across from Prospect Park. From just about every room in the apartment, you get incredible views of the park’s treetops and lake — a rare win in Brooklyn. The layout is ideal, with tons of windows, lots of closet space, and bedrooms on opposite sides of the apartment. Although it is a fourth-floor walk-up, you can park a stroller in the lobby.
Manhattan: 301 E. 63rd St. #10G
SPACE: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $425,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Lenox Hill
AGENT: Celeste Pandhi, Level Group
HIGHLIGHTS: A decent apartment in Manhattan under $450,000 can be hard to find, but 2018 is coming in strong with this large 1-bedroom co-op in Lenox Hill. The apartment offers 750 square feet of space, tons of light, a renovated kitchen and bath, and three closets, including a walk-in. Sweetening the deal are the building’s pet-friendliness, shared roof deck, and policies around subletting, pied-à-terre use, and co-purchasing.
Manhattan: 325 W. 45th St. #616
SPACE: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $979,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Hell’s Kitchen
HIGHLIGHTS: This turn-key Hell’s Kitchen co-op offers buyers a ton of nice features. The place has great bones — it’s located in an Emery Roth-designed building with a doorman — and has just received a high-end gut renovation. Heated floors in the bathroom, marble finishes all over, tasteful light fixtures, and a walk-in closet give this place a touch of luxury at a relatively reasonable price.
Brooklyn: 195 Hawthorne St. #2
SPACE: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $655,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
AGENT: Bertrand Buchin, Nicole Sawin, Douglas Elliman
HIGHLIGHTS: In Prospect Lefferts Gardens, you can get a taste of luxury living for about a third of what you’d pay for the Manhattan co-op above. This brand-new condo offers more than 770 square feet of space, three closets, and a washer and dryer in-unit. All-new European fixtures and finishes, plus a deep soaking tub, up the apartment’s opulent feel.
Manhattan: 44 W. 62nd St. #5E
SPACE: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
PRICE: $695,000
NEIGHBORHOOD: Lincoln Square
AGENT: Roya Cohen, Ryan Serhant, Nest Seekers International
HIGHLIGHTS: This apartment epitomizes the Lincoln Square lifestyle. Around the corner from Central Park and Lincoln Center, the address puts you right among some of the city’s best cultural amenities. The building is full-service, offering a doorman, gym, garage and even pied-à-terre use. The unit itself is large, measuring 725 square feet. The fixtures and finishes could use some updating, but the place has a good layout.
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