What you’ll get across NYC for $1,800 a month

By Sara Alessi | September 11, 2015 - 1:59PM

You may not find tons of big apartments in the city with a budget of $1,800 a month, but there are one-bedrooms and studios sprinkled throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, like the furnished one-bedroom in Riverdale pictured above, still up for the taking.

CENTRAL HARLEM, MANHATTAN: A one-bedroom, one-bath with a renovated kitchen and bath, high ceilings and a dishwasher in a pet-friendly prewar building at 312 West 142nd Street (between Edgecombe and Frederick Douglass Boulevard). $1,800/month

HAMILTON HEIGHTS, MANHATTAN: A recently renovated studio with new stainless appliances, marble counters, white cabinets, a washer and dryer (yes!) and a dishwasher in a pet-friendly, six-unit building at 415 West 147th Street (between Convent and Saint Nicholas). $1,800/month

CENTRAL HARLEM, MANHATTAN: A gut renovated one-bedroom, one-bath with exposed brick, stainless steel appliances and a dishwasher in a prewar that allows pets at 165 West 127th Street (between Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard and Lenox). $1,800/month, heat and hot water included

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN: A renovated one-bath studio with hardwood floors in a building where FiOS is available at 235 Starr Street (between Wyckoff and Irving). $1,800/month

DITMAS PARK, BROOKLYN: A renovated one-bedroom, one-bath with sunroofs, bay windows and a decorative fireplace on the second floor of a townhouse at 431 East 21st Street (at Cortelyou). $1,800/month

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN: A two-bedroom, with a renovated bathroom, new appliances and hardwood floors at 2406 Newkirk Avenue (between East 25th and Bedford). $1,800/month

JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS: A one-bedroom, one-bath in a pet-friendly elevator building with laundry facilities and a live-in super at 35-34 78th Street (between 35th and 37th). $1,800/month

FLUSHING, QUEENS: A renovated one-bedroom, one-bath with an updated kitchen in a pet-friendly elevator building near the 7 train and the LIRR at 34-15 Parsons Boulevard (between 34th and 35th). $1,800/month

BEDFORD PARK, BRONX: A renovated three-bedroom, one-bath with exposed brick and new appliances in an elevator building that accepts guarantors and has a children’s playroom at 85 Strong Street (between Reservoir and Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard). $1,800/month, heat and hot water included

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