This week we have some great four-bedrooms, which are great if you have a ton of friends but can’t decide which ones you want to share an apartment with — bring em all! But seriously, the more bedrooms the cheaper each one is, so if you’re not worried about the place feeling dorm-like, it’s a great way to save money. Some of these might even be affordable for families if you need room for your kids. Also check out the Classifieds, where you can find several more apartments and maybe find your roommates and a cleaning person for all these rooms.
$2200 — 4br: It’s not because I love older buildings that I chose this as the top apartment. Yes, it is full of original details and lovely, huge bay-front windows (though the bay is split by a room-dividing wall), and even built-ins, but it’s also quite affordable and is in an excellent area near everything Bushwick has to offer, including dining, shopping, music, art, the park, and the train. This is dead-center prime Bushwick, and the price and condition are just perfect. Also: great wood floors, big kitchen, two full bathrooms, and a private back yard. It’s just stupid to pass up.
CATS OK | Troutman and Irving | Jefferson L
$2565 — 4br/2ba: Very nice new construction — inside at least, the outside is horrendously ugly. Butif you don’t care — you’re not looking at it from the inside, right? — this place has excellent kitchens and finishes and wonderful views of the neighborhood. The duplex units also have large 5th floor terraces. Apparently there is a gym and laundry in the building as well. Little Skips café is around the corner and other stuff is a few-minute walk, with closer things coming soon. (Note Google street view is dramatically different now.)
PETS OK | Troutman and Evergreen | Morgan L/Myrtle JMZ
$2200 — 4br/2ba: This place is pretty nice, looks like lots of sunshiny space and nice wood floors. The fact that the historic and tree-lined surroundings are mentioned is a plus, usually Bushwick agents and landlords don’t care or notice. Two full bathrooms makes this ideal for roommates.
Grove and Evergreen | Gates JZ
$2345 — 4br: This is pretty far down there, and so unless it’s an absolute palace I’d try to bargain with the landlord on the price. Otherwise, it looks pretty good, love the hot kitchen. Some original details are left but it’s mostly a complete renovation, some exposed brick, French doors (probably because the living room is in the middle), and the entire basement, which should not constitute any of the bedrooms for this price.
PETS OK | Chauncey and Broadway | Chauncey J
$1849 — 4br: A nice place at a good price, though it’s at the far end of the neighborhood and is not in any meaningful sense near “upscale restaurants” or “organic groceries.” Duplex layout and a small but decent kitchen, exposed brick, stock wood floors, dirt back yard — this place is acceptable in every way, but not amazing in any. But if you’re roommates you’re at like $475/person with utilities.
PETS OK | Central and Cooper | Wilson L/Chauncey J
Tom March 10th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Great first apartment Jeremy. Really nice, I saw it on craigslist a while ago but back then it just said “Troutman st” which could’ve been on any avenue so I disregarded it.
The second one, you are NEVER going to walk from that apartment to the morgan avenue station. EVER. Even the realtor didn’t lie in the ad. You shouldn’t either.
The fourth one, it’s not a “palace”, it’s not going to be a palace, don’t fool yourself or your readers. It is just another overpriced condo that doesn’t belong anywhere near where it’s located. $2400 to live a stop away from East New York? Haha. By the way there won’t be any bargaining with the landlord at all since this is a CONDO.
And as for the last one, ooooohhh. I’m gonna make a really broad generalization here and say; if you’re reading bushwickbk.com for apartment listings, you probably shouldn’t (and don’t want to) live ANYWHERE near the wilson avenue L stop.
I’ve mentioned it before, and a parade of fearless urban pioneers came to flood the comment section trying to tell me it’s “not that bad”
No, believe me it is. You don’t want to live around there, you don’t want to BE around there. It’s just not even a place you go.
The apartment itself looks quite nice and it is cheap though (there is a reason this apartment is $1900 and the other one 3 avenues away on broadway is $2400)
As a side note, unrelated to this blog, it makes me sick that every single ad on craigslist, even the ones in the darkest corners of bushwick (like the last one) advertise themselves only to roommates. You’re gonna have a real hard time putting 4 transplants in an apartment on central and cooper if you’re asking for year long leases.