NYC rent report - August 2026

The NYC rent report, August 2026

The citywide median 1-bedroom rent is $2,700/month as of August 2026, based on 87,730 active listings.
  • 224,963 listings sampled
  • Updated August 2026
  • Snapshot edition
The short answer

The median rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in New York City is $2,700/month as of August 2026, based on 87,730 active listings across the city. This report breaks that down by borough and bedroom count, and lists the 10 neighborhoods with the most available inventory this month.

Median rent by borough and bedroom count
AreaStudio1BR2BR3BRListings
NYC citywide$2,500$2,700$3,200$3,620224,963
Staten Island$1,250$1,950$2,550$2,85056
Bronx$1,882.5$2,100$2,721$3,4645,122
Queens$2,036$2,400$2,999$3,45030,438
Brooklyn$2,701$2,950$3,400$3,70093,447
Manhattan$3,500$4,390$5,892.5$7,067.595,900
Top 10 neighborhoods by inventory
  1. Upper East SideManhattan
    8,522 listings
  2. WilliamsburgBrooklyn
    8,066 listings
  3. Upper West SideManhattan
    7,188 listings
  4. Midtown EastManhattan
    6,657 listings
  5. BushwickBrooklyn
    5,643 listings
  6. Midtown WestManhattan
    5,405 listings
  7. East VillageManhattan
    5,369 listings
  8. Bedford-StuyvesantBrooklyn
    5,052 listings
  9. AstoriaQueens
    4,408 listings
  10. Hell's KitchenManhattan
    4,195 listings
Methodology

Medians reflect asking rents from a citywide sample of active NYC rental listings, grouped by neighborhood and bedroom count.

Each borough median is the median of that borough's neighborhood medians for the same bedroom count. The citywide median is the median across all neighborhood medians citywide.

The "as of August 2026" date reflects when this data was last synced, not the date this page was built. This edition is a snapshot - month-over-month change columns will appear once at least two months of historical snapshots exist.