CROSSTOWN

MANHATTAN ONLY · LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER

CROSSTOWN

We sell minutes, not square feet. Three apartments on the market — each one priced by everything it’s near and how fast you’re there.

See the grid Read the meter

SQUARE FEET ARE
A FICTION.

A 740-square-foot two-bedroom eight minutes from eight Broadway houses is bigger — in every way that matters — than 2,000 square feet forty minutes from anything. The only honest unit of Manhattan real estate is the minute, and minutes are non-renewable.

So we list every apartment with its true dimensions: how far to the express stop, the good bodega, the place that’s open at four in the morning. The grid does the rest. It always has.

  • 20blocks to the mile, north–south
  • 3 MPHan honest New York walking pace
  • 1diagonal. Broadway. Respect it

01 THE GRID

PICK A CORNER.

Manhattan is a coordinate system. Select a medallion and the map draws what your feet reach in 5, 10 and 20 minutes — measured the only way distance exists here: along the grid.

5 MIN

Ninth Avenue food row · Ideal Deli · the C/E at 50th

10 MIN

Eight Broadway houses · Restaurant Row · Port Authority express tracks

20 MIN

Hudson River greenway · Columbus Circle · Bryant Park lawn

14 ST – 96 ST · 1 AV – 12 AV. Isochrones drawn in taxicab geometry: a circle, measured along the grid, is a diamond.

02 MEDALLIONS

THREE ON THE MARKET.

Every Crosstown listing carries a medallion number, a block report, and its honest dimensions — the ones you walk, not the ones you sweep.

9K47HELL’S KITCHEN

THE
WALK-UP

W 47 ST × 9 AV · 4 FL · PRE-WAR

Eight minutes to eight stages. Ninth Avenue is your pantry, Restaurant Row is your fallback, and the south light comes over the tenement roofs all afternoon. Clawfoot tub. Decorative mantle. Stairs that keep you honest.

BEDS
2
BATHS
1
SIZE
740 SF*
MAINT
$1,140 / MO
ASK
$998,000
YOUR BLOCK
  • Ideal Deli, open always1 MIN
  • Westway Diner, 24 hr4 MIN
  • A·C·E at 42 St, express6 MIN
HAIL THIS ONE
5B23FLATIRON

THE
LOFT

BROADWAY × E 21 ST · KEYED ELEVATOR

Nine windows on the diagonal, eleven-foot-four ceilings, cast-iron columns you could hang a swing from. Greenmarket Saturdays at Union Square, lunch under the trees at Madison Square. Six subway lines inside six minutes.

BEDS
2
BATHS
2
SIZE
1,610 SF
CC + TAX
$3,610 / MO
ASK
$2,395,000
YOUR BLOCK
  • 21 & Park corner store2 MIN
  • The counter on 5th, since ’293 MIN
  • N·Q·R·W / 4·5·6, Union Sq5 MIN
HAIL THIS ONE
2Y84YORKVILLE

THE
CLASSIC SIX

E 84 ST × 2 AV · 1928 · CORNER LINE

Formal dining room, staff room turned office, a corner living room that gets both the morning and the argument about the morning. The Q at 86th rewrote this neighborhood’s math: Museum Mile in nine, midtown in twelve.

BEDS
3
BATHS
2
SIZE
1,450 SF
MAINT
$2,480 / MO
ASK
$1,675,000
YOUR BLOCK
  • 84 & 2nd, the flower one1 MIN
  • Gracie’s on 86th, 24 hr3 MIN
  • Q at 86 St, two stops to 5th4 MIN
HAIL THIS ONE

* We know. Read the meter.

03 THE METER

THE PRICE OF LOCATION,
METERED.

Standard city rate: $3.00 on the flag, 70¢ each fifth of a mile, surcharges as posted. Distance computed in taxicab geometry — along the grid, never through buildings.

PICKUP — YOUR FRONT DOOR

DROP-OFF

CROSSTOWN · RATE 01 · STANDARD CITY HIRED
FARE $ 11.20
1.1MI 9MIN 4.00EXTRAS
FLAG DROP
$3.00
DISTANCE 6 × ⅕ MI
$4.20
STATE + IMPROVEMENT
$1.50
CONGESTION, BELOW 96
$2.50
NIGHT
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Illustrative fares at the posted rate. The real product is the minutes: The Walk-Up to Grand Central, about 9 minutes door to door.

04 DISPATCH

WHERE TO?

Call it in. A Crosstown broker rides along to every showing — we walk the block with you, stopwatch running.

CROSSTOWN DISPATCH · TRIP SHEET NO. 004,721

No fare for looking. We call back within one business hour, 8a–8p, seven days.