Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Serhant
For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points.
We’ve found you a cozy West Village studio with exposed brick and a one-bedroom with a triangular Juliet balcony at UN Plaza.
The living room at this the UN Plaza one-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, faces south, with a triangular balcony overlooking 48th Street.
Photo: Leven Real Estate
Turtle Bay, if you haven’t heard, has suddenly become somewhat “hot.” This nicely proportioned one-bedroom in UN Plaza faces south and has a large living room with floor-to-ceiling windows and a triangular Juliet balcony overlooking leafy 48th Street. The apartment has parquet floors and five closets, but the kitchen (while kind of fabulously ’80s minimalist) and bath haven’t been updated in some time. The doorman building has a multilevel garden with a waterfall (!), a porte cochere, and a fitness center (as well as a lobby with plenty of bronze and marble). The monthlies are on the high side — $1,202 in common charges, in addition to $1,052 in taxes. There’s also a $1,200 monthly assessment through September 2026.
11 Riverside Drive, #7DW
An alcove studio that could almost pass for a one-bedroom: There’s a large foyer, a galley kitchen with an alcove off of it, and a 12-by-nearly-20-foot living room with a bank of north-facing windows. The apartment, located in a 1950 co-op between 73rd and 74th, has parquet floors, four closets and built-in storage beneath the living-room windows. The building has multiple roof decks, a parking garage, a 24-hour doorman, a playroom, and a lending library and is a five-minute walk to Fairway.
An alcove off the studio’s galley kitchen, as shown in listing photos, could be used for eating or sleeping.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
The one-bedroom duplex with a loft and private roof terrace, as shown in listing photos, is in one of a handful of smaller condo buildings within a few blocks of Prospect Park.
Photo: Compass
A newer condo in a largely prewar neighborhood, this one-bedroom duplex comes with a loft, a private roof terrace, and modern conveniences like a washer, a dryer, and central air. The lower level has a large double-height living room, bedroom, and bathroom, while upstairs is a loft that could be used as another bedroom or office and the roof terrace. It’s located in a six-unit walk-up that dates to 2009 with common charges and taxes that total around $1,150 a month, although it will have higher monthlies when the 421A tax abatement expires next year.
The studio, as shown in listing photos, is, like many West Village apartments, compact, but also well laid out.
Photo: Serhant
An idyllic south-facing studio in a pet-friendly West Village co-op. The apartment has white exposed-brick walls, a decorative fireplace, and hardwood floors. Like many Village apartments, it’s compact but well-proportioned — the bathroom has a tub, and the kitchen, while small, is a space you could actually cook in. There’s a garden (with seating and a bike rack) that’s shared with a bunch of other Horatio Street addresses, which likely makes for some inter-building socializing. Eighty-eight Horatio also allows co-purchasing and gifting, and the monthly maintenance is just under $1,000 a month.
