The NYC rent reality check
What one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments rented for across New York City in the first quarter of 2026, mapped against the subway.
- Data
- Rented market-rate listings, first quarter 2026 (7,120 one-bedroom, 5,225 two-bedroom, 2,256 three-bedroom or larger) and fourth quarter 2025; MTA subway schedule data, August 26, 2026 version; MIT City Form Lab NYCWalks pedestrian estimates
- Coverage
- New York City’s five boroughs
- Updated
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Rents by part of the city, first quarter 2026
Rented market-rate listings. The shaded column matches the map.
| Area | 1BR mean | 1BR median | 2BR mean | 2BR median | 3+BR mean | 3+BR median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Manhattan | $4,747 | $4,495 | $7,010 | $6,100 | $10,188 | $8,440 |
| Upper Manhattan | $2,827 | $2,790 | $3,615 | $3,295 | $4,401 | $3,995 |
| North Brooklyn | $3,756 | $3,595 | $4,707 | $4,300 | $5,443 | $4,400 |
| South Brooklyn | $2,653 | $2,600 | $3,299 | $3,150 | $3,931 | $3,799 |
| Western Queens | $3,235 | $3,280 | $4,265 | $4,000 | $4,765 | $4,150 |
| Queens | $2,549 | $2,499 | $3,124 | $2,995 | $3,844 | $3,600 |
| South Bronx | $2,593 | $2,760 | $3,450 | $3,525 | $3,642 | $3,750 |
| Bronx | $2,125 | $2,097 | $2,727 | $2,500 | $4,649 | $3,600 |
| Staten Island | $1,692 | $1,725 | $3,025 | $2,700 | $3,271 | $3,200 |
| New York City | $3,839 | $3,500 | $5,001 | $4,250 | $6,381 | $4,750 |
How to read it
Color shows the estimated rent at each point: green is cheaper, red is more expensive. Switch bedrooms, mean or median, or the change since the previous quarter. Move over the map for the estimate at that spot. Select a station for the rents of listings near it, or a neighborhood name to compare its estimate with the citywide figure.
Data and method
Listings are grouped into small grid cells. The surface estimates rent between cells by inverse distance weighting and is clipped to the city boundary. Change compares cells that have listings in both quarters. Station figures summarize the listings near each station, and the table gives the figures for nine parts of the city. Subway routes are drawn from the MTA’s published schedule data. Full methods
Limits
These are listings marked as rented, and the data file does not name the listing source. Cells with few listings are noisy, and the surface between cells is an estimate. Blank areas have no listings nearby. Routes that share track are drawn on top of one another, so one color can hide another.