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NYC rent report: October 2026
In progress: covers October 19 to 24, 2026 so far and updates every hour. It becomes final when the month ends.
From October 19 to 24, 2026, 426 apartments for rent on Nessoo asked a median of $5,295 a month. Most landlords would look for a yearly income of about $212,000 at that rent (40 times the rent).
Apartments
426
Median asking rent
$5,295
Middle half of rents
$4,000–$6,500
Within CityFHEPS limits
4%
0 of them went up for rent during this period and 0 came off the market (rented or taken down).
By apartment size
| Size | Apartments | Median rent | Middle half | Income at the median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 63 | $3,600 | $3,250–$4,458 | $144,000 |
| 1 Bedroom | 128 | $4,775 | $3,969–$5,509 | $191,000 |
| 2 Bedroom | 168 | $5,995 | $5,000–$6,996 | $240,000 |
| 3 Bedroom | 57 | $7,495 | $4,400–$9,250 | $300,000 |
| 4+ Bedroom | 10 | $9,995 | $5,869–$11,374 | $400,000 |
By borough
| Borough | Apartments | Median, all sizes | Studio | 1 Bedroom | 2 Bedroom | 3 Bedroom | 4+ Bedroom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan | 240 | $5,785 | $4,458 | $5,430 | $6,150 | $8,495 | $10,495 |
| Brooklyn | 169 | $4,200 | $3,392 | $4,025 | $5,800 | $4,400 | — |
| Queens | 12 | $4,095 | — | $3,400 | $4,095 | — | — |
| Bronx | 5 | $3,025 | — | — | — | — | — |
By neighborhood
Neighborhoods with at least 5 apartments listed in the period.
| Neighborhood | Borough | Apartments | Median rent | Middle half | Income at the median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gowanus | Brooklyn | 63 | $5,750 | $4,000–$6,963 | $230,000 |
| Financial District | Manhattan | 39 | $5,015 | $4,770–$7,050 | $201,000 |
| Flatbush | Brooklyn | 27 | $3,239 | $3,000–$3,682 | $130,000 |
| Crown Heights | Brooklyn | 26 | $4,275 | $3,190–$5,225 | $171,000 |
| Lower East Side | Manhattan | 23 | $5,295 | $4,750–$5,998 | $212,000 |
| East Village | Manhattan | 22 | $5,693 | $4,763–$6,338 | $228,000 |
| West Village | Manhattan | 21 | $7,200 | $6,000–$8,550 | $288,000 |
| Murray Hill | Manhattan | 16 | $5,964 | $5,188–$8,886 | $239,000 |
| Tribeca | Manhattan | 14 | $10,245 | $7,121–$14,061 | $410,000 |
| Upper East Side | Manhattan | 14 | $6,483 | $6,000–$11,175 | $259,000 |
| Fort Greene | Brooklyn | 13 | $4,801 | $4,198–$6,751 | $192,000 |
| Kips Bay | Manhattan | 13 | $5,995 | $5,400–$6,200 | $240,000 |
| Midtown South | Manhattan | 13 | $5,625 | $5,500–$5,825 | $225,000 |
| Williamsburg | Brooklyn | 11 | $4,675 | $4,200–$5,350 | $187,000 |
| East Harlem | Manhattan | 10 | $3,595 | $3,375–$5,278 | $144,000 |
| Nolita | Manhattan | 9 | $5,550 | $4,895–$8,495 | $222,000 |
| Bushwick | Brooklyn | 8 | $4,075 | $3,771–$4,193 | $163,000 |
| Stuyvesant Heights | Brooklyn | 8 | $3,956 | $2,894–$4,300 | $158,000 |
| Upper West Side | Manhattan | 8 | $5,298 | $4,495–$5,546 | $212,000 |
| Hells Kitchen | Manhattan | 6 | $5,948 | $5,599–$6,203 | $238,000 |
| Midtown | Manhattan | 6 | $5,950 | $5,806–$6,075 | $238,000 |
| Chelsea | Manhattan | 5 | $7,600 | $7,600–$7,995 | $304,000 |
Download the data
Every figure on this page, one row per place and size: nessoo-nyc-rent-report-2026-10.csv. Free to use under CC BY 4.0: credit “Nessoo NYC Rent Report, October 2026” with a link to this page.
How it is calculated
- Every apartment listed for rent on Nessoo at any moment in the period counts once, at the last rent it asked. These are asking rents, not signed leases.
- Places are the neighborhoods apartments are listed under; boroughs and the city are built from them.
- A figure is published only when at least 5 apartments share a place and size, so no figure describes one apartment.
- The middle half is the range from the 25th to the 75th percentile. Income at the median is the 40× rule most landlords use (how it works). CityFHEPS counts apartments at or under HRA’s limit for their size (the limits).
- Nessoo’s listings lean to the upper end of the market, so this describes what is listed on Nessoo, not every rent in New York City.
- Nessoo began recording listing history on October 19, 2026; the October 2026 report covers October 19 to 31.
- Once a month ends its figures are frozen and never revised.