#1 — $1400 — loft — This is cheap for a genuine loft. Top floor, tin ceilings, great windows… it’s a bit ratty-lookin but is set up in such a way that makes me think they don’t care what you do in there at all. Which is good for a person who appreciates that. Right ON the L. PETS OK Hart and Wyckoff
#2 — $1450 — 3 bedroom — Cheap! Newly renovated “prewar” (like 97% of Bushwick) brick building. Looks nice from what I can tell, basic new kitchen, very cool bathroom. They seem very strict, and there’s a fee, but this is a great deal, and the screening will guarantee good neighbors. This area is actually decent and very close to the Myrtle-Wyckoff L. Putnam and Irving
#3 — $1375 — 2 bedroom — Looks like a real residential building in the Morgantown area. Railroad, pretty basic, but looks nice enough and it’s a good location for the right kind of person: close to all hipster cultural attractions and the L. I question that it’s “less than 10 minutes into Manhattan” — maybe if the train does that thing where it clears the tunnel in like 90 seconds, which it sometimes does. Thames “off the Morgan and Jefferson L stops”
#4 — $4500 — 5 bedrooms — It’s the Brewer’s Mansion on Bushwick Avenue — I guess nobody can get an exclusive on this thing. You can buy it, or you can rent it! “Picture MTV cribs!!” Please. Anyway, it’s certainly a unique product in the city, forget Bushwick. Pile it with roommates and you have a pretty awesome place to throw insane parties, and who’s gonna call 311 on you in your own house? Linden and Bushwick
#5 — $900 — studio — Somebody might be interested in living at the very end of Bushwick: it’s very cheap, and these last row of blocks before the cemetery are actually very nice. And the L and JZ are both very close…even if the L has to loop all the way around Bushwick before going into the City. (I know I broke the “rules” by choosing something without a photo, but it’s a 400sqft studio — what is there to it?) PETS OK Pilling and Bushwick
Mary June 21st, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Jeremy: You are doing a great job searching for apts. and giving your opinions on them! I wonder if anyone has ever had any luck moving into any of these places. I know dealing with listing agents, and just seeing the apts. sometimes can be tough.
Anyone ever heard of them not putting up true pictures? You get there and it’s a different apt.
But anyway it’s great to see Jeremy’s picks. Here’s my take:
#1. Cool loft apt, although I’m not sure of the size, but it looks big, and the kitchen is a great size. I wonder why they alway elevate the bed. This isn’t always the criteria for a loft apt. is it?
#2. I agree it’s got a cool bathroom, and they do seem strict about who they let in. How many hipsters/artist do you know that make more than $58,000?
#3. Room look odd shaped.
#4. They’ve been trying to get rid of this “mansion” for a while. At over $1 million, no one is investing that much money in Bushwick (yet hopefully). $4500 for a 5 bedroom seems very high. They place could be huge, but a 4 bedroom only rents for about $2000 – $2200. If they are willing to rent you 8 bedrooms for $7500 that’s still steep. Even with roommates, each one would be paying close to $1,000/month. Apparently there is a 3 bedroom, which doing that math rents for $3000 – another insane price. Is it just me, or did I not too well in mathematics class?
#5. yes the far end of bushwick, but it’s probably an illegal basement apt. and you could get evicted at any time. I believe I called about an apt. in this building and they never called me back or answered my emails. So good luck to whoever is interested.
anonymous June 21st, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Look at all that graffiti on that building in #1.
s July 6th, 2007 at 11:17 am
i used to live in building #1!
but not on the top floor. it was only 4 apartments then, 1 per floor… 2,500 sq. ft. each floor and i was paying 750 for a room the size of that studio and we had *MAASSSIIVE* common spaces. granted this was 5 years ago. i would have never guessed bushwick would get so expensive!