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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.

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Downtown Manhattan Rental Apartment Buildings

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) illustrations pet-friendly listings {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....
  • 110 Greenwich Street (Battery Park City) illustrations pet-friendly listings {3 available apts}
    A pre-war building with loft-style apartments.
  • 2 Gold Street (Financial District) illustrations pet-friendly listings {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) illustrations pet-friendly listings {4 available apts}
    A modern high-rise concierge building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
  • 88 Leonard Street (TriBeCa) illustrations listings {6 available apts}
    A modern high-rise doorman building offering a gym and a garage.
  • The Archive (666 Greenwich Street, West Village) illustrations pet-friendly listings {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) illustrations listings {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) illustrations listings {2 available apts}
    A modern mid-rise elevator building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
  • Le Rivage (21 West Street, Battery Park City) illustrations listings {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) illustrations pet-friendly listings {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) illustrations listings {4 available apts}
    A modern mid-rise concierge building offering laundry facilities.
  • Tribeca Green (325 North End Avenue, Battery Park City) illustrations listings {5 available apts}
    An "eco-friendly" luxury rental building.
  • Tribeca Park (400 Chambers Street, Battery Park City) illustrations listings {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) illustrations pet-friendly listings {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) illustrations listings {5 available apts}
    A 52-story full-service luxury apartment building.

See all downtown rental buildings (495 buildings)

Midtown Manhattan Rental Apartment Buildings

Below is a partial list of midtown rental buildings. The longer complete list of midtown rental buildings (478 buildings) is also available.

  • 300 East 34th Street (Murray Hill) illustrations listings {1 available apt}
    A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a pool, a garage and laundry facilities.
  • 777 Sixth Avenue (Chelsea) illustrations pet-friendly listings {2 available apts}
    A modern high-rise concierge building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
  • Archstone Chelsea (800 Sixth Avenue, Chelsea) illustrations listings {3 available apts}
    A high-rise concierge building offering a gym and a garage.
  • Archstone East 39th (300 East 39th Street, Murray Hill) illustrations pet-friendly listings {10 available apts}
    A high-rise building completed in 2000.
  • Archstone Midtown West (250 West 50th Street, Central Midtown) illustrations listings {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) illustrations listings {12 available apts}
    A post-war high-rise concierge building offering a gym and a pool.
  • Chelsea Place (363 West 30th Street, Chelsea) illustrations listings {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) illustrations listings {4 available apts}
    A pre-war mid-rise doorman elevator building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
  • The Elektra (290 Third Avenue, Gramercy Park) illustrations pet-friendly listings {4 available apts}
    A high-rise doorman building offering a gym and laundry facilities.
  • The Epic (125 West 31st Street, Garment District) illustrations listings {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) illustrations pet-friendly listings {3 available apts}
    A doorman building offering a gym and a garage.
  • The Montrose (306-308 East 38th Street, Murray Hill) illustrations listings {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) illustrations pet-friendly listings {4 available apts}
    A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a garage and laundry facilities.
  • Rivergate (401 East 34th Street, Murray Hill) illustrations pet-friendly listings {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) illustrations listings {4 available apts}
    A mid-rise building offering a gym.

See all midtown rental buildings (478 buildings)

Uptown Manhattan Rental Apartment Buildings

A partial list of uptown buildings can be seen below. The complete list of uptown rental buildings (with 945 buildings) is also available.

See all uptown rental buildings (945 buildings)

Upper Manhattan Rental Apartment Buildings

A partial list is given below (you can also view the complete list Upper Manhattan rental buildings (411 buildings)):

See the complete list Upper Manhattan rental buildings in our database (411 buildings).

Roosevelt Island Rental Apartment Buildings

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.

Brooklyn Rental Apartment Buildings

See all Brooklyn rental buildings (211 buildings)

Queens Rental Apartment Buildings

See all Queens rental buildings (208 buildings)

Bronx Rental Apartment Buildings

See all Bronx rental buildings (123 buildings)

Staten Island Rental Apartment Buildings

New Jersey Rental Apartment Buildings

See all eastern New Jersey rental buildings (48 buildings)

The latest additions/updates to the database of buildings were made on: September 2, 2010.

Updated recently: 303 East 94th Street , 139-06 34th Road , 789 Quincy Street , 74-10 35th Avenue , 185 Bleecker Street , 433 East 9th Street , 85 East End Avenue , 210 East 68th Street

Apartment buildings from NY Bits rss

illustrations = photos   pet-friendly = pet-friendly   listings = current listings  

Do I Have To Pay a Fee?

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.

Ready to skip brokers? Try our free no-fee rental search tool

What's a No-Fee Broker?

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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