Clio Chang

2 months ago | curbed.com | Clio Chang

Like many big things, the Big Window is instantly recognizable. If you’re doing some fantasy browsing of Brooklyn brownstones during the workday, you’ve surely clicked through a slideshow of tastefully staged rooms and come across a giant glass window overlooking a backyard — like this enormous two-story glass wall opening into the garden of an $8.4 million Carroll Gardens townhouse or the wall-to-wall sliding glass doors on this $13 million brownstone in Cobble Hill.

2 months ago | curbed.com | Clio Chang

The big arched windows stand out in the listing photos for this Flatiron one-bedroom. For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points.

2 months ago | curbed.com | Clio Chang

It’s a freezing Thursday in February, the kind of day that feels like it’s in the single digits, and Tina Ruyter just wants to go to the farmers’ market. I meet the 67-year-old at her apartment on Morningside Drive and 116th, and we start walking her usual route: west on 116th Street until we hit the gates of Columbia University, at which point we walk south on Amsterdam to 114th, then back up Broadway to 116th again.

2 months ago | msn.com | Clio Chang

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2 months ago | curbed.com | Clio Chang

The interiors of this Philip Johnson home have been meticulously restored, as shown in this listing photo. Part of living in New York City is thinking about moving out of New York City. Each month, we’ll round up the best listings within commuting-ish distance, places where entire houses go for the cost of a “junior one-bedroom” (or less), but you’ll have to fix your own toilet. This month we have a restored Philip Johnson and an eco-ish home in Pine Bush fit for a Bond villain.