Housing and its price are often discussed, directly and indirectly. In every corner of New York City, even more so. Those discussions can be indirect, like with the countless articles pondering “why are so many young adults living with their parents?” I haven’t read all of them, but the bottom line is it’s due to housing costs.
This page aims to simplify and clarify what housing costs are based on what’s available at a given time. I used all listings from 2010 to today based on StreetEasy.com’s listings. I broke it down from micro (cb6/ neighborhoods) to macro (borough and citywide).
Rest assured, it’s not just staring at numbers that I’d say are too high; it’s also got every active “affordable housing” lottery open across NYC. I put “affordable” in quotes, as that may be better described as “less expensive housing”, but I digress. I’ll keep making updates, but check it out and let me know what you think.
Mike RacioppoDistrict Manager, Brooklyn Community Board 6
Median asking rent is what landlords list, not what tenants pay. It comes from StreetEasy listings, so it reflects what is on the market now rather than what everyone in the area is paying. A neighborhood with few listings in a given month can swing sharply.
The number in parentheses beside each rent is how many units of that size were listed. A $7,000 three bedroom drawn from 11 listings is a thinner figure than a $3,900 one bedroom drawn from 400.
Colours are relative to the areas shown, not a fixed dollar scale, so the same colour means something different when you switch lens. The exception is the timeline, which uses one fixed scale across all years so you can see rents genuinely rise.
Council district figures begin in January 2023, when the current boundaries took effect.