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Want a $600/month studio in Downtown Brooklyn? Of course you do
You fancy, huh? via Brownstoner Oh, hello, affordable housing. Though rent in Brooklyn’s getting more and more expensive (and we’re still waiting on Mayor Bloomberg to come through with those promised...
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Coming soon: More Brooklyn Bridge Park…but also condos
Coming soon: more of this. But also more rich person housing. via Flickr user afagen Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday a major plan to expand Brooklyn Bridge Park along the waterfront at 1 John...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘You Can Have Expectations Again’ edition
It was a hard spring for real estate, what with the whole poor doors thing and generally shitty prospects for rental. So thank god things are relatively back to normal: this week’s apartments are...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘Stop telling me to bring my cat (or dog or fish)’ Edition
I’ve got a bone to pick with the housing market. Everywhere you look this month, there are calls to “bring your pets,” or apartments boasting that pets are allowed. And you know what? Maybe I don’t...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘Nice walls, cheap rent’ in Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst and more...
Happy December, guys. If you haven’t moved already, then you’d better do it quick before the temperatures reach full vortex. Also, trust me when I say that nothing sucks worse than dragging a...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘Cheap Below the Belt’ edition
Who has time to think about getting health insurance when you’ve got a life-changing New Years’ move to prepare for? Hey, relax: Brokelyn’s here to make it easy for ya. We did the dirty work of...
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Apartment Hunt: Top to bottom, Greenpoint to Bay Ridge edition
ICYMI on Brokelyn yesterday, renting an apartment ain’t always peaches & cream. That’s why you should at least be able to count on cheaper rent that’ll pad your bank account against the dollars...
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Snag a cheap place in Kensington, Gowanus and more edition
Real estate’s no joke, and it looks the market is gonna push its way and our way out into those previously overlooked L train stops and neighborhoods that seemed too far south. That said, this week’s...
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Fun map shows you can’t afford a one-bedroom
Haha, these aren’t for you, poor person. I think we can safely say that at this point in the real estate game, “cheap” is a term of relativity. We’ve always maintained that reasonable per-person rent...
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Apartment Hunt: Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Flatbush
Face it: if you haven’t yet figured out how to crest the stupefying tsunami that is New York rent on your own, you’re gonna have to contend with roommates. And I’m gonna tell Hillary Clinton that she...
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Apartment Hunt: Cozy in Crown Heights, Ditmas Park
Okay, so you may be having some reservations about choosing a neighborhood to live in now that you know there’s a science to it. We get it! Moving isn’t just about the apartment; it’s also about...
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One way to afford Park Slope: Open a BDSM dungeon in your place
Better him as an occasional guest than having a roommate, we guess? Living on your own: it’s the dream of real and fictional NYC residents. Unless you’re ludicrously rich though, it’s a dream that’s...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘If these walls could talk’ edition in Bed-Stuy, Crown...
Don’t believe the hype: even though all humanity will one day be replaced by scores of condominia, we’ve still got plenty of time to enjoy prewar brownstones and stuff. In fact, we didn’t have any...
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Apply now for Navy Green affordable housing condos starting at $230K, a...
How about it, a permanent address? Via L+M Development Partners website We’re always saying it: the rent is too damn high, the rent is too goddamn high, and—well, we don’t even need to say it again. At...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘If you rent it, they will come’ edition in Midwood,...
If you’re lucky enough to have escaped the dreaded wintertime move, now is a great time to call it quits on the old place and sign a lease on a new one. The weather’s warmer, the days are longer and...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘Tangible Property’ edition in Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Crown...
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,...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘Grasping for cheapness’ edition in Flatbush, Bay Ridge,...
Guys, I’m grumpy. I know it may seem out of character; after all, Brokelyn has long been known for its particular brand of naïveté and its irresistible joie de vivre. But today, finding cheap places...
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Apartment Hunt: ‘No whammies’ in Bushwick, Sunset Park, more
Word on the street is that we’re more expensive than Manhattan (again). Well, I call shenanigans! I call bullshit. I call my mom and tell her that I’m doing well. This week’s apartments are damn...
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Apartment Hunt: Long hallways in Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, more
Can you believe it’s only (almost) June? We skipped spring and scooted right into summer weather, But you can’t just start lazing around, kiddo! Your lease is up soon. You gotta move, remember? As per...
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Play “Inside The Rent” and bring affordable housing to Brookyln
Pfft, that’s what you think game. Screenshot via CHPCNY Drop the XBOX One or PS4 controller you’re currently holding on a Friday morning and play a game about real estate. The Citizens Housing Planning...
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