This week we’re focusing on the cheapest apartments in the hood. Of course this entailed ignoring half the search results that were really in Bed-Stuy. What else is new.

$850 — 1br: Wow! I don’t even know what I’m looking at with these strange narrow photos, but this unit seems clean and decent. The location is not good or bad, really, at least in the menacing sense — just far from much. But $850, son. That’s a mere bedroom on the, ahem, other side of Myrtle with all the amenities. Whatever might be wrong with this place, you can deal with it.
Schaefer and Evergreen | street view | Halsey J/Wilson L

$1050 — 1br: Charming little apartment in an okay part of the hood. Bushwick Avenue is attractive, if boring, but this apartment is as cheap as it gets for a one-bedroom, and you’re close enough to fun stuff, especially on a bike.
PETS OK | Bushwick and Greene | street view | Kosciuszko J

$1200 — 1br: For once, the agent is probably right when he says this won’t last — the location and price are excellent, and the interiors, while nothing special, are also not total roach motel.
PETS OK | Irving and Jefferson St. | street view | Jefferson L

$1199 — 2br: I listed this recently, but if we’re doing cheap apartments this is still one of the best I have seen. Some original details are left, and the appliances and such seem newish, and though in general the place is a little cosmetically dumpy it’s nothing your own good style couldn’t fix. Goodish location, too.
PETS OK | Stockholm and Knickerbocker | street view | DeKalb L/Central M

$1100 — 2br: Stick toward the cheaper end of this range for the good deal — the $1400 ones in this location are pushing the upper limits of acceptability, in this decent-enough but quite end-of-the-earth location. The interior is fine, clean and new, and it is only two short-blocks to the L. Not bad.
PETS OK | Decatur and Wilson | street view | Wilson L