Neighborhoods for Great Deals?
Hi there! My boyfriend and I currently live in the East Village and are hoping to move out to Brooklyn over the summer. We are looking for a 1-bedroom for 1,200-1,300 per month. Any suggestions on reasonable neighborhoods? We’d love to find something in Cobble Hill or Fort Greene-would you say this is realistic? Thanks…
Hi there! My boyfriend and I currently live in the East Village and are hoping to move out to Brooklyn over the summer. We are looking for a 1-bedroom for 1,200-1,300 per month. Any suggestions on reasonable neighborhoods? We’d love to find something in Cobble Hill or Fort Greene-would you say this is realistic?
Thanks so much! Any tips/suggestions would be much appreciated!
Cheers,
Chantal
Take a look in PLG. A quick glance at craigslist for the neighborhood turns up this place, a 1br 2 blocks from the park for $1150 : http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/fee/1191037653.html
You’d be right on the B/Q, 20 minutes to manhattan. I don’t think you could get even a studio in Ft Greene for that price, and in Cobble Hill you could barely get dinner.
I’m a BIG PLG booster,and there are a lot of young people renting here but, FWIW, my son has a one bedroom on Glenwood Road, near Brooklyn College, which costs slightly over $1000/month–considerably less than my neighborhood. His Street (Glenwood & E. 27th) has a number of well-kept pre-war elevator apartment buildings.
Travel time to Manhattan though, is considerably longer than from PLG or a number of other neighborhoods suggested,although It’s no longer than from Sunset Park or Bay Ridge.
crown heights north
I second the PLG/Ditmas Park/Kensington recommendations… you’ll find some great deals in these areas, and they’re all great areas.
For sure you’ll be able to find a 1-1.5-b.r. in a brownstone in a great part of Bed Stuy within your budget.
When I was looking a couple of years ago, I set up a search on craigslist (brooklyn/at least 1 bedroom/for rent by owner/at least 1 bedroom/max rent a little higher than what I could pay just so I could see what was out there/cats allowed, and bookmarked it. I checked it at least 2x a day and responded immediately if I saw something interesting, introducing myself and my family and said I’d be willing to come see the apartment any time. I saw a whole bunch of apartments and moved within a month to a great place just a few blocks from the Nostrand stop on the A train–a 1.5-bedroom floor-through in a brownstone for $1300.
Rents have definitely come down in the past six months and they are lower than when I was looking in 2007.
Depends on your priorities, if you want to be closer to Manhattan or Prospect Park but don’t need a large apt. or being close to many amenities, you can look at the areas surrounding Park Slope as folks have mentioned. However, if you are willing to consider a bit farther, then in Bay Ridge you can get a very nice sized 1 or even 2 bedroom apartment in that price range, plus you are in a walking distance to transportation, tons of restaurants, bars, stores and parks. I know it’s a bit of a leap coming from the EV though, but in the past year I know several single friends that have chosen to rent here because they could get much nicer spaces.
it’s not realistic. for those areas you will need about 1500 minimum until you start seeing livable junior 1 beds and studios — true one bedrooms are around 2000 and up in cobble hill, possibly slightly lower in fort greene.
It would probably be a pretty small and potentially shabby 1 BR for that price range in Clinton Hill, but you might get lucky, who knows?
Some of the Eastern parts of Prospect Heights near Crown Heights would offer some possibilities.
ALSO A BIG FAN OF CROWN HEIGHTS (Western part), Prospect HEIGHTS and CLINTON HILL.
Windsor terrace is a little sleepy for me but nice.