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My company just rented a fourth floor walkup 1bdr far away from subway, and no parking. But at least the bathroom is separate room with a door, and there is a balcony
There are still plenty of old law tenement buildings still scattered around NYC: Yorkville, LES, EV, WV and GV in particular had tons and some still are around. Places with showers in kitchen, bathtubs are kitchen sinks.....
These places as noted above predate 1916 and subsequent zoning changes. Prior to 1916 apartments didn't always have a john, you shared one down the hall with everyone else on same floor. Your bathtub either was kitchen sink, or you filled a wash tub......
Co-worker moved into a building in East 80's off Third built around 1900. It was gut renovated with shower in "kitchen" area and toilet shoved into a created alcove. Old time residents in building (including a few > 70 years old what were born there), told him that originally yes, toilets were down the hall, and so forth.
If it wasn't for rent regulation many of these buildings would have been torn down ages ago and replaced with new modern construction. In case of 114 Walton Street that area has seen many changes since early 1900's as Williamsburg went from white/European working, lower and middle class to largely Hispanic now invaded by trendy transplants.
When I was a Real estate agent in nyc ive been inside lots of apts like this still. The final ones I saw personally were 2700 in west village near the McDonald’s on west 3 and 2500 for a 1br in ues in Lexington Ave and the 80’s at the end of 2019.
Not only is this legal, but under current NYC rental laws this mess can't be renovated/remodelled by the LL without incurring significant losses... so this kind of planning will stay around for a while!
Keep in mind the area this apartment is in is rather dull and even inconvenient by Williamsburg standards, barring the proximity to the Food Bazaar. Definitely not hip or trendy.
Yet the price is reasonable for a close-in Brookyn studio, despite how one feels it's unfair to shell out so much to get so little. You can adjust certain parameters, but the price will come out about the same. Maybe you could find a separate bathroom, but the kitchen might be shared et cetera. Really the only way you could beat that price would be an apartment with no kitchen at all.
That's the reality of apartment prices now, even with COVID and other doom and gloom some hold about the future of the city. I speculate stats about rents falling reflect mostly luxury units changing from 10k rent to 8 or 9k and other such situations, because I don't believe landlords of no-frills, as-is units such as this are making concessions to renters at all.
There's two apartments available in that building for $1850 - one has an actual full bathroom (I'm sure retrofitted) and the other one has an enclosed bath/sink but I am not seeing where the toilet is in that one! Does say 1.5 bath so it must be there somewhere - hopefully, lol.
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