250 South End Avenue Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Corcoran |
I’m going to give you guys the bad news first: Dallas BBQ has lost another location due to lease issues. Now that that’s out of the way, the good news: Mom-and-pop pharmacies are apparently back. Gone are the days of ruining a perfectly nice lunch hour on line at CVS. In more good news, we have a new mayor! In his honor, I scoped out rentals in Astoria and Sunnyside. From there, I made a random jaunt to the Bronx, then back down to Bed-Stuy and City Island (my new favorite island).
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$2,800, 2-bedroom: Sort of late to learning about City Island? A teeny strip of the Bronx at the western end of the Long Island Sound, dotted with Victorian architecture with a beach on every block … like, what? The house in question (less Victorian, more cottage) has a washer-dryer and an HVAC system. You’re also a half-block from the beach. |
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| 34 Carroll Street Photo: Keller Williams Realty Group |
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$3,500, 1-bedroom: Highlights here are the bay windows and beautiful built-in shelves in the bedroom — very unusual layout! The afternoon light in the living room is also doing it for me.
$3,000, 1-bedroom: Little rough around the edges, but in a way that I respond to. The natural stripe on the worn wood in the bedroom calls to me. |
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| 254 Vernon Avenue Photo: Nooklyn NYC LLC |
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$4,250, 2-bedroom: Larger-than-usual floor-through with a living room so wide it feels like (or might be?) an optical illusion. |
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158 Hancock Street Photo: Douglas Elliman |
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$4,150, 2-bedroom: I might rent the apartment just so that I can have access to the softly scalloped antique mirror on the mantel. |
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$2,900, 1-bedroom: Have previously listed apartments in the Pistili Riverview East — an apartment complex whose seafoam green aluminum-framed windows I lust after. Good price, great location. (Word to the wise, though: Renters on Reddit complain about the building’s management!)
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1919 24th Avenue Photo: City Skyline Rentals LLC |
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$3,995, 3-bedroom: A lotta house for not a lotta dollars. Great parquets with some unfortunate linoleum flooring in the kitchen — a trade-off!
$3,200, 1-bedroom: Prewar with nicely maintained hardwoods and ceramic tiling in the bathroom. Avoid the kitchen if you can help it.
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$5,000, 1-bedroom: Pastel-forward, somewhat spacious one-bedroom apartment in the Congress Gardens — a three-building co-op with a shared garden and patio. Lovely tulip bed hopefully included. |
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220 Congress Street Photo: Compass |
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$4,200, 1-bedroom: Garden apartment in extra-wide brownstone with a few special original details and ideal proximity to Veranda Park (IYKYK). |
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