Apartments for Rent in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY

Preguntas frecuentes

• How many apartments for rent does Prospect Heights have, and how many are in Pacific Park buildings?

  For most of its history Prospect Heights added almost no housing, and then it added a great deal in one corner. Since Barclays Center opened in 2012, the Pacific Park project has delivered a row of apartment towers along Dean Street, Sixth Avenue and Carlton Avenue, among them 461 Dean, 535 Carlton, 38 Sixth Avenue, 18 Sixth Avenue and 595 Dean, and those buildings now account for a large share of what is listed at any moment. The remainder is scattered through the landmarked rowhouse blocks to the south, where each house yields only two to four apartments. Today there are 9 apartments for rent in Prospect Heights on Roomster. Tower units appear year-round; rowhouse apartments come up mainly in late spring and summer.

• How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Prospect Heights, and where are cheap apartments under $3,000?

  In mid-2026 the average one-bedroom in Prospect Heights rented for $3,800 to $3,900 a month, studios for roughly $3,300 to $3,500, and two-bedrooms for about $5,580. The overall average, near $4,250, was down around 3 percent from a year earlier even as studios rose, so there is some room to negotiate on larger units. New towers with doormen and gyms set the top of each range, and walk-up floors in rowhouses on Park Place, Sterling Place and St. Marks Avenue set the bottom. Inside the neighborhood, very little rents for less than $3,000. You can find one-bedroom apartments under $3,000 a month in Crown Heights east of Nostrand Avenue and around Utica Avenue, a short ride away on the 3 or 4.

• Will the 2026 Pacific Park plan bring more apartments for rent to Prospect Heights?

  Eventually, but not soon. The project formerly called Atlantic Yards stalled after its developer defaulted, and a deadline to finish 876 affordable apartments by May 2025 passed with none of them started. In June 2026 the state and the new development team, Cirrus Workforce Housing and LCOR, released a $5 billion plan for the second phase: seven more towers with about 5,600 homes, roughly 1,242 of them affordable. Most of those sites require a platform to be built over the active rail yard first, and the plan still needs state approvals. For someone renting in the next year or two, the supply is what already stands. The longer-term effect, if the towers are built, would be thousands more apartments along Atlantic Avenue and years of construction beside the blocks nearest the yard.

• Are apartments for rent in Prospect Heights rent stabilized?

  Some are, in two distinct groups. The first is older: prewar buildings with six or more units, found mainly along Eastern Parkway, Washington Avenue and Underhill Avenue, fall under the stabilization system that covers pre-1974 buildings. The second is new: the lottery apartments in the Pacific Park towers are stabilized, and in buildings that received a property tax break, market-rate units are often stabilized too for as long as the benefit lasts, so look for the rider in the lease. Rowhouses with two to four units are not covered. For any stabilized lease beginning between October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2027, the Rent Guidelines Board set the renewal increase at 0 percent. If a landlord offers a preferential rent below the legal rent, ask how future increases will be calculated.

• Are there apartments for rent near Grand Army Plaza and the Prospect Park entrance?

  A few, and they are among the hardest to get. Grand Army Plaza anchors the southwest corner of Prospect Heights, with the main entrance to Prospect Park, the Central Library, a Saturday Greenmarket and the 2 and 3 trains all meeting there. The grand apartment houses facing the plaza and lining Eastern Parkway are mostly co-ops, so rentals in them are usually sublets from individual owners, offered for a year or two and subject to board approval, which adds paperwork and a few weeks to the process. Standard rentals are more common one or two blocks back, on Underhill Avenue, Lincoln Place and St. Johns Place. If the park is your priority, search by distance from the plaza and be ready to apply the day a listing appears.

• Is it cheaper to rent an apartment in Prospect Heights than in Park Slope or Crown Heights?

  It sits between them. One-bedrooms in Prospect Heights average $3,800 to $3,900, inside Park Slope's range of about $3,700 to $4,200 across Flatbush Avenue, so the two are close for smaller apartments; Prospect Heights tends to be the better value for renters who want a new elevator building, which Park Slope has only along Fourth Avenue. Crown Heights is the cheaper neighbor, though unevenly: the blocks near Franklin Avenue now cost about the same as Prospect Heights, and savings begin farther east, where one-bedrooms under $3,000 still exist. All three share Prospect Park and the 2 and 3 trains. Choose Prospect Heights for the transit hub, Park Slope for brownstone blocks, and eastern Crown Heights for the lower rent.