For this section, we've compiled an extensive list of New York City
rental apartment buildings.
The majority of buildings listed are "no-fee" - i.e. managed by companies that deal directly with renters. That means you do not need to hire a broker in order to rent an apartment there.
Some managers prefer to "outsource" the rental
process to brokerages that do collect a fee.
Whenever we have information that such an arrangement takes place, we note it in the building's profile page.
In general, we try our best to show direct management contact info wherever possible and where not possible,
show the exlusive brokerage contact while also specifying whether or not it is
"no-fee".
Most buildings listed offer unfurnished apartments, but major appliances are nearly always included. Typical leases are 12 and 24 months. The buildings are grouped by area.
This is a partial list of rental apartment buildings in Downtown Manhattan
(i.e. below 14th street).
The
complete list of downtown rental buildings (containing 495 buildings)
is a bit longer.
100 Jane Street
(West Village) {2 available apts} A modern mid-rise doorman elevator building offering a gym. While the building itself is modern, it is located in the neighborhood full of quaint brownstone houses, with eas....
2 Gold Street
(Financial District) {13 available apts} A 51-story tower, joined to a smaller "sister" building of 26 stories. The façade alternates between cream-colored brick and "high-performance" windows
with recesses for balc....
22 River Terrace
(Battery Park City) {4 available apts} A modern high-rise concierge building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
88 Leonard Street
(TriBeCa) {6 available apts} A modern high-rise doorman building offering a gym and a garage.
The Archive
(666 Greenwich Street, West Village) {10 available apts} A landmark turn-of-the-century mid-rise doorman elevator building offering laundry facilities. Built in the late 19th century in the Romanesque Revival style and originally i....
Barclay Tower
(10 Barclay Street, Financial District) {5 available apts} A modern high-rise doorman building offering a gym, a pool, a garage, a children's play area and laundry facilities. Public spaces furnished and decorated by designer John Sa....
CD 280
(280 East 2nd Street, East Village) {2 available apts} A modern mid-rise elevator building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
Le Rivage
(21 West Street, Battery Park City) {4 available apts} Built in 1926 in the Art Deco style, restored and converted in 1998. Architectural details abound in the halls, lobby and elevators.
Post Towers
(75 West Street, Battery Park City) {2 available apts} The building is named Post Towers after The New York Post, for which it was built in 1926. The Post left it in 1970, and the Bank of New York used it until 1996.
SOHO Court
(301 Elizabeth Street, NoHo) {4 available apts} A modern mid-rise concierge building offering laundry facilities.
Tribeca Park
(400 Chambers Street, Battery Park City) {6 available apts} A high-rise concierge building offering a gym, a pool, a garage and a children's play area.
Tribeca Pointe
(41 River Terrace, Battery Park City) {3 available apts} A modern high-rise concierge elevator building offering a gym and a children's play area.
Tribeca Tower
(105 Duane Street, TriBeCa) {5 available apts} A 52-story full-service luxury apartment building.
Archstone Midtown West
(250 West 50th Street, Central Midtown) {36 available apts} A modern high-rise doorman building offering a gym, a pool, a garage and laundry facilities.
Archstone Murray Hill
(245 East 40th Street, Murray Hill) {12 available apts} A post-war high-rise concierge building offering a gym and a pool.
Chelsea Place
(363 West 30th Street, Chelsea) {2 available apts} A modern mid-rise elevator building offering a gym and a garage. The brick building has several setback terraces.
Claridge's
(101 West 55th Street, Central Midtown) {4 available apts} A pre-war mid-rise doorman elevator building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
The Elektra
(290 Third Avenue, Gramercy Park) {4 available apts} A high-rise doorman building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
The Epic
(125 West 31st Street, Garment District) {1 available apt} Environmentally-friendly high-rise building.
The 580,000 s/f base contains commercial and other non-residential
space. The residential units are above the base.
Marc NY
(260 West 54th Street, Central Midtown) {3 available apts} A doorman building offering a gym and a garage.
The Montrose
(306-308 East 38th Street, Murray Hill) {1 available apt} A 20-story luxury residential rental project. A "boutique" building with fewer than a hundred units, but many luxury amenities, offering residents a "user-friendly home enviro....
Murray Hill Manor
(166 East 34th Street, Kips Bay) {4 available apts} A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a garage and laundry facilities.
Rivergate
(401 East 34th Street, Murray Hill) {7 available apts} A 35-floor rental building completed in 1985. Occupies the entire block from 34th to 35th street, First Ave to the FDR Drive.
The Sierra
(130 West 15th Street, Chelsea) {4 available apts} A mid-rise building offering a gym.
Carnegie Park
(200 East 94th Street, Upper East Side) {8 available apts} A doorman building offering a gym and a pool.
The Concerto
(200 West 60th Street, Upper West Side) {2 available apts} A 35-story 254-unit building constructed in 1991.
The Lucerne
(350 East 79th Street, Upper East Side) {6 available apts} A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a gym, a pool, a garage, a children's play area and laundry facilities.
The Lyric
(255 West 94th Street, Upper West Side) {5 available apts} A modern high-rise elevator building offering a gym and a children's play area.
The Marlowe
(145 East 81st Street, Upper East Side) {2 available apts} A post-war mid-rise doorman elevator building offering a garage and laundry facilities.
Post Toscana
(389 East 89th Street, Upper East Side) {7 available apts} A modern high-rise concierge building offering a gym.
River East
(408 East 92nd Street, Upper East Side) {1 available apt} A modern high-rise doorman building offering a gym.
The Sagamore
(189 West 89th Street, Upper West Side) {7 available apts} A modern apartment building (built in 1997) whose apartments
are "pre-war in both look and feel". David Rockwell designed
the building's lobby.
Sessanta
(229 West 60th Street, Upper West Side) {1 available apt} A high-rise doorman building offering a gym, a pool and laundry facilities.
The Strathmore
(400 East 84th Street, Upper East Side) {3 available apts} A high-rise concierge building offering a gym, a pool, a garage and a children's play area.
15 West 139th Street
(Central Harlem) {2 available apts} One of the seven buildings of the Savoy Park development.
The site was once home to the legendary Savoy Ballroom.
30 West 141st Street
(Central Harlem) {2 available apts} One of the seven buildings of the Savoy
Park development. The site was once home to the legendary
Savoy Ballroom.
60 West 142nd Street
(Central Harlem) {3 available apts} This is one of the seven buildings of the Savoy
Park development. The site was once home to the legendary
Savoy Ballroom.
Carnegie Hill Place - 1501 Lex
(1501 Lexington Avenue, East Harlem) {2 available apts} A modern mid-rise concierge elevator building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
The Manhattan Court
(444 Manhattan Avenue, Central Harlem) {1 available apt} A modern luxury building in Harlem. Some apartments
are reserved as affordable housing for mid-income tenants.
The Monterey
(175 East 96th Street, East Harlem) {8 available apts} A modern high-rise building occupying the corner of East 96th Street and Third Avenue.
Susan's Court
(454 Manhattan Avenue, Central Harlem) {3 available apts} A modern mid-rise doorman elevator building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
Although
Roosevelt Island
is officially part of the borough of Manhattan,
it is an island, so if you decide to rent there, you'll need to get acquainted with a lesser-known mode of transportation called the air-tram.
Eastwood
(510-580 Main Street, Roosevelt Island) A 10-building complex of about 1,000 units About a quarter of units are reserved for the elderly and the disabled.
The Octagon
(888 Main Street, Roosevelt Island) A luxury apartment building offering a wide range of services and amenities including tennis courts, waterfront pool, health club & day care center. The building was designed ....
Avalon Fort Greene
(343 Gold Street, Fort Greene) {4 available apts} A modern high-rise building offering a gym and a garage.
The Brooklyner
(111 Lawrence Street, Downtown Brooklyn) {11 available apts} A modern high-rise doorman building offering a gym.
Clermont Armory Towers
(171 Clermont Avenue, Fort Greene) {1 available apt} Built in two wings behind the façade of the original armory, the apartments face an elevated courtyard.
In an attempt to capture some of the character of the original Clerm....
37-29 104th Street
(Corona) {1 available apt} A 4-story pre-war walk-up that features a brown
brick façade with column detailing. Lobby with stone details.
4705 Center Boulevard
(Long Island City) {5 available apts} A modern high-rise doorman building offering a gym, a pool, a garage and a children's play area.
Moda
(153-50 89th Avenue, Jamaica) {6 available apts} A modern mid-rise concierge building offering a gym, a children's play area and laundry facilities.
The Opal
(75-25 153rd Street, Kew Gardens Hills) {4 available apts} A mid-rise doorman building offering a gym, a garage and a children's play area.
Whenever possible, for rental buildings, we list direct contact information for each building
and for no-fee buildings this means that you'll be dealing
with the management company directly, without any intermediaries (brokers or agents) and consequently, you won't be required to pay extra fees.
When the manager requires prospective tenants to go through a brokerage,
broker fees may be charged. We try to note such arrangements in the building's "capsule".
If you contacted your broker before seeing the apartment, typically you'll
have to pay the fee, even if it later turns out that the building wasn't
requiring you to use a broker and you could have come and talked directly to the
management. That's why it pays to do your research in advance.
Renting in condo and especially co-op buildings more often than not requires
a broker - unless you're dealing directly with the owner of the unit or the developer of the building. This market is much more fractured and complicated
than the "mainstream" rental market, but the upside is that you can find a much
more unique apartment to live in.
How Much Is the Fee?
In New York, a typical broker's fee is about 15% (up to 20% in some cases)
of one year's rent. Thus, the broker's fee on a $3,000 apartment will be $5,400. No wonder New Yorkers have been looking hard to avoid paying
such fees (and thanks to NYBits, they can now do that!).
In certain situations, however, brokers charge less - for example, it is
not uncommon to pay the "low fee" of around 10% or even a fee of one month's rent (which roughly corresponds to 8.3%).
When we have information that a building is rented through a brokerage
and requires a fee, we show a "fee warning" prominently in the building
capsule.
Sometimes (and more so in a "down" market), landlords agree to pay the broker
directly - an arrangement that is called "Owner Pays" (OP) in the industry
lingo.
Fairly often, companies hire (and pay) an "exclusive" broker to advertise their
properties or even to man an on-site rental office.
You should not be paying a fee to a no-fee broker: the landlord has already agreed to do so. Always confirm this is the case before signing anything.
In case you're wondering, "OP" is actually the standard way of doing business pretty much everywhere in the country except New York, although even in New York it seems to be more accepted now.
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