This week we were inspired by the recently and briefly pedestrianized Knickerbocker Avenue to list apartments overlooking or very close to fabulous and lush María Hernández Park, Bushwick’s lively central square. The area is ideal; besides the green space, it’s very close to the Jefferson L stop, most of our best restaurants and bars, and convenience shopping and cheap food choices on Knickerbocker itself. Without a doubt Bushwick’s most desireable area.
And don’t forget to check out (and use) our new classifieds system.
$1999 — 3br: Pretty nice renovation of this former railroad into a full three-bedroom. Glass-inset pocket doors allow light in, there’s wood floors, exposed brick, and quite tasteful new kitchen and bath. Excellent views out the front toward the park complete this package. It seems this whole building has been recently renovated, with many apartments available between $1995 and $2495.
Starr and Knickerbocker | street view
$1800 — loft: This building is full of great people, just 1/2 block to the park. I attended a July 4 party on the roof here, and it has fabulous views. The apartment is cruddy but has great space and light, wood floors and brick walls, and I’m pretty sure the landlord allows renovations, so if you’re handy, you can work it out.
Starr and Irving | street view
$1500 — 2br: SUPER blah, you will absolutely need to give this a heavy dose of charm/cool, but everything is clean and new and bright, and it has a view of the park from what it seems is the corner of the block.
Suydam and Irving | street view
$875 — studio: Wow, cheap. Crappy photos but it’s probably a decent place and is only 1/2 block to the train. A few steps to the park.
Starr and Wyckoff | street view
armstrong July 24th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Ummmm as a resident of said desirable area, a few words to the wise:
make sure you have some pretty fckn stellar security gates (landlord is NOT responsible for such things btw), an alarm system with monitoring, renter’s insurance with a LOW deductible in case of multiple burglaries, and.. perhaps a rabid pitbull and sawed-off shotgun! Mad Max attire is optional, and entirely up to you, of course.