#1 — $1650 — 3br: Too bad the photos are so small, but I think this place is probably pretty great. Some old details, big windows, wood floors, new kitchen (from what I can tell), and good location. And if you ever wanted to crap next to exposed brick, this is the apartment for you!
PETS OK Hart and Irving DeKalb L
#2 — $1300 — 2br: If this is a full two bedrooms, this is a great deal. The inside seems like a regular decent apartment, and the location is pretty great. All the best stuff in Bushwick is near this corner: park, (mostly food) shopping, dining. Seems like a private landlord who may live in the house — feel him out, and if he’s good, jump on this.
Starr and Knickerbocker Jefferson L
#3 — $1595 — 2br: We’re gonna call this a two bedroom because you have to walk through other rooms to get to each actual bedroom. Looks like a nice basic renovation, new kitchen and bath, nice shiny wood floors.
Cornelia and Knickerbocker Myrtle-Wyckoff LM
#4 — $1390 — 2br: This could be good for two people, I think, if the two railroad bedrooms in the back are big enough to even get a bed in. Neighborhood is ok.
Menahan and Bushwick Kosciuszko J
#5 — $2200 — 3br: A bit pricey but electricity is included, and it has a private back yard. The location is okay…hopefully it’s closer to Evergreen than Central so that the projects aren’t on the front stoop.
PETS OK Harman and Central Central M
from the wtf file: $750 for a 1br!? Ohhh, it’s a basement. Seems like a good option if you want your own apartment, cheap, and think sunlight is overrated.
Dishonorable mention: Top location? This is about as bottom as it gets in Bushwick. Far from all trains, up the ass of the biggest projects in the hood. Rather live in a basement.
Matt January 11th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I don’t recognize that Starr. St house and I walk by every day.
I assume it’s one of those setback houses with the ugly garages in front? Either way, it does seem like a good deal. And a decent block, especially with the recent renovations on two crapped out abandoned houses. Plus I noticed they are finally demo’ing what we call the Rathouse! I think it was 80 or 82 Starr? Worst building on the entire block of Starr st. Used to have massive huge family of rats living there. Dumped garbage piled up all of the time and squatters. Oh, 20004. How much you have changed.
Armstrong January 12th, 2008 at 12:32 am
hey bud u missed two listings on the park:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/531920507.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/533406068.html
John January 13th, 2008 at 2:47 am
It’s amazing how these were built as TENEMANT apartments meant for the people of the lowest means to live in and now, people are dying to get into these apartments, paying top notch rents. If the original inhabitants of the apartments only knew these are now chic pads, they would probably roll over in their graves in disbelief.
Dresden January 13th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
What amazes me are the Hasids loft buildings. Just look at the DOB’s number of violations on 255 McKibben, for instance.
And if you look at the fines, it’s small potatoes compared with the rent their collecting. Check this one – $800 fine for two units with a use contrary to the C of O. $800 fucking nothing!!! And its elevator is “hazardous.”
I might get some flack for saying it, but GOOD FOR THEM. They stepped in here when this place looked like Mozambique and bought these buildings for a quarter. They’re doing what anyone would do – charging through the nose. I just wish they’d get me off their mailing list – which they put me on because I have a Jewish name – I don’t read Hebrew!
Jeremy January 14th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Agree with Dresden, and have argued it elsewhere. Everyone looking for an apartment is an adult. If you want to rent a crumbling shithole, you’re a big boy now, and are responsible for yourself. Landlords are not some special race of people who are bred to provide you housing and keep you safe. They’re people who are selling a product. If you buy the product, as long as fraud wasn’t involved, nobody wants to hear your whining when you figure out “edgy” loft living isn’t for you.
Zach January 14th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I can’t believe these rents! I love that you do this roundup, but everyone I know in Bushwick and Ridgewood is paying waaaay less than this (over $1300 for a two-bedroom is unheard of). I had a 3 bed floor-through last year for $1200 on a nice part of Grove Street, and I was paying more rent than anyone else on the block. You guys gotta get some direct landlord hookups, I think.