Lucy Cohen Blatter

A Park Slope two-bedroom for $1070 a month—way below the $3,000 a month median rent? There are two affordable housing units of that size up for grabs at this new 17-unit building at 65 Park Place, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

It's starting to feel like fall here in the city, but you'd probably stretch summer out a little longer if you rented this $2,310 studio in Hunters Point, Queens, which comes with an envy-inducing private terrace (in a building with multiple outdoor spaces).

By now we all know that New York City's housing market is one of the country's—not to mention the world's—most expensive, so when we saw that financial website NerdWallet ranked its affordability 92 out of 100 (100 being the least affordable), we weren't exactly surprised. (Note: San Francisco is actually less affordable than our fair city is, ranking 95th.)

Every time we happen upon a well-below-average rental apartment in a desirable neighborhood on StreetEasy, we do a little happy dance. And this rent-stabilized studio in Prospect Heights fits the bill. It's $1,650 a month, almost $400 less than the area median price for studios. (Which may make up for the fact that it's not exactly "condo quality.")