Apartments for Rent in New York

Two whole homes are separated first by the number of rooms and the floor area, then by what the advertised rent covers. The same figure can sit on two different monthly charges.

A median rent taken across the whole city adds up five markets that do not move at the same pace. The figure stays useful as a bearing, never as a prediction for one particular home.

The list of apartments for rent filters on price, move-in date, minimum stay, furnished or not, smoking, pets and the type of property; with Quoloc Plus, also on the twenty-three amenities, the number of rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, the floor, the elevator, parking and who is letting. Moving the map narrows the list to what is in view.

The map on a listing shows a five-hundred-meter circle around the home, never an exact point: Quoloc does not publish the address, and only the person advertising can choose to give it in the exchange. A Street View tab shows the street where coverage exists.

The count covers homes on offer, not leases signed. An asking rent is not an agreed rent, and nothing here claims to give the second. The cut-off date of the figures is stated each time.

The official unit in New York is the borough: there are five. Two further divisions exist (the fifty-nine community districts, which are advisory only, and the tabulation areas built to project population), but neither is used to place a home.

Teaching institutions are spread over several boroughs: Columbia and NYU in Manhattan, NYU's engineering school in Brooklyn, Fordham in the Bronx with a second site in Manhattan. A home let to students is rarely placed against only one of them.

The five counties that cover the city have no functioning county government of their own, apart from a few borough officials. The county name survives in deeds all the same, and it differs from the everyday name for Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

For a whole home in New York, the Housing Court, a part of the Civil Court of the City of New York is the venue; it enforces state and city housing standards.

The Housing Court, a part of the Civil Court of the City of New York is the venue for a whole home, and it enforces state and city housing standards. The state agency publishes its documents separately.

One and the same detector runs over listings, messages, comments and profiles. It recognizes an email address, a phone number, a social media handle and a web address, including ones written to fool a machine: an address broken up with "(at)" and "(dot)" is caught, and so is a number spaced out digit by digit. The exchange therefore stays where reporting and blocking exist.

An apartment listing carries the rent and its currency, whether utilities are included, the floor area, the number of rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, the floor, the elevator, parking, whether the apartment is furnished, the dates it is available, the minimum stay and who is letting it (the owner, an agency or a tenant moving out). Twenty-three amenities are ticked, from wifi to a garden, and the listing says whether pets and smoking are accepted. All of that can be read before writing.

Exchanges happen in the site's messaging. You can write from the moment you register, without the other person having to allow anything: a published listing and a published profile are both contactable. Messages stay grouped and the history remains available.

Every listing and every profile carries a report button, and a report keeps its state until it is closed. A person can also be blocked, and the block runs both ways: the person blocked receives no notification and simply can no longer write to whoever blocked them, or comment on their listings or profile.