
Now that your taxes are done—and boy, we’re hoping you paid them—you can forget about “intangible properties” and start thinking about the ones you can touch, and smell, and sleep in. As per usual, cheap real estate options are eking ever so slightly farther out into the borough. But follow our example: we’re not going to start worrying until real estate actually pushes us off the edge of Sheepshead Bay and into the water. First up, this Bed-Stuy 4-bedroom is only $2,500. It’s a prewar building—extra bonus points for them knowing just how pre-war it is. We’re told it’s an 1899 townhouse that was, oddly, “never lived in!” Uncanny. Big bedrooms, two (!) skylights in the living room, washer/dryer in the building. Oh, and did we mention you only share the building with one other tenant? Sweet deal. The bathroom also has “subway tiles” which, while it probably just refers to… Read More