Best NYC Real-Estate Listings Under a Million: Spring 2024
A photo of the west-facing living room at 116 Pinehurt Avenue, in Hudson Heights, as shown in the listing. A terrace off this room has Hudson River views.
Photo: Compass
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.
Coming up: an elegant prewar one-bedroom in Hudson Heights and a Midtown South studio with an extremely dramatic arched window.
The kitchen in this Hudson Heights apartment, as shown in the listing photos, has been renovated. The apartment faces north and west.
Photo: Compass
This pretty prewar co-op is listed as a one-bedroom, but it’s really a two-bed — there’s even a foyer with a built-in bookcase and a separate dining room. It appears that the “real” two-beds in Hudson View Gardens, the 1920s hillside complex where this apartment is located, have a few hundred more square feet and even more gracious layouts. But this unit is plenty gracious: In addition to a separate, renovated kitchen, there are also four large closets and a west-facing terrace off the living room with Hudson River views. The $1,510 monthly maintenance includes gas, electricity, and mail delivered right to your door.
166-25 Powell Cove Boulevard, #19G
The living room in this Beechhurst two-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, is large enough to accommodate a couch, a love seat, and a grand piano.
Photo: Lovett Realty NYC
Located right by the Throgs Neck Bridge in Queens, this two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in a 1960s co-op is undeniably over the top. Yes, some of it is just the current occupants’ opulent décor — a bedroom with seafoam-green walls and a matching Louis XIV–style wall-mounted headboard with drapes — but the mirrored walls (and mirrored bathroom fixtures), will likely stay behind. The living room is large enough to hold a full-size couch, a love seat, and a grand piano, poised in front of windows with sweeping views. And the apartment is located in a gated community with a heated pool, gym, and rec room.
This loftlike junior one-bedroom turned studio, as shown in listing photos, has high ceilings and a dramatic window with sound-dampening glass.
Photo: Douglas Elliman Real Estate
This loft-style studio was once a junior one-bedroom, before the alcove and living room were combined into one big space lit by a huge arched window with a bank of built-in cabinets beneath it. Located in a full-service, pet-friendly building, the apartment has 11-foot-6-high beamed ceilings, custom blinds, hardwood floors, and a sleek open kitchen with marble countertops and high-end appliances (Liebherr, Bertazzoni, Bosch).
This studio, as shown in listing photos, has a lofted sleeping area, accessed not, as many sleeping lofts are, via ladder but by a real, non-twisting staircase.
Photo: Zachary Scott
This 650-square-meter apartment looks much bigger than it is, thanks to high beamed ceilings, big east-facing windows, and a sleeping loft, accessed via a real staircase that you wouldn’t be afraid to climb drunk. Plus, there are hardwood floors and lots of built-in storage, including two Murphy tables for entertaining. It’s also on a high floor of a full-service prewar co-op with a roof deck.