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# Your Guide to Finding Affordable Studio Space in NYC
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/your-guide-to-finding-affordable-studio-space-in-nyc/
- Published: 2013-11-22T21:03:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:48:29.000Z
- Description: As prices for studios rise steadily throughout New York, here's a useful guide to finding the ideal, affordable NYC studio and figuring out what your "priorities" should be.
- Author: Brian Fernandes-Halloran
- Tags: Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![(All photos by the author for Hyperallergic)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/1feet.jpg)

(all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic)

As prices for studios rise steadily throughout New York, here’s a useful guide to finding the ideal, affordable NYC studio and figuring out what your “priorities” should be.

If you are a struggling artist, it is all about bang for your buck. Your work deserves however much space it needs to be fully realized. Don’t worry though, it is possible to pay a dollar per square foot if you follow these rules … *and yes, these are all real world scenarios faced by artists in NYC.*

## A Charmingly Awkward Entrance

![2entrance](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/2entrance.jpg)

Adds incentive to stay trim.

## Scenery

![3scenery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/3scenery.jpg)

## Public Transportation

![4busdepot](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/4busdepot.jpg)

Think bus depot not bus stop

![5tracks](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/5tracks.jpg)

Look for the Waste Management line not the L line.

## The Beach

![6beach](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/6beach.jpg)

Bring a towel and a hazmat suit.

## A Local Swimming Pool

![7pool](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/7pool.jpg)

Charming … and avoids the crowds!

## Shopping!!!

![8shopping](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/8shopping.jpg)

A ladder may be required.

## Distribution Centers

![9food](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/9food.jpg)

Like the grocery store but much bigger and undeniably more exclusive.

## Skyscrapers

![10skyscrapers](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/10skyscrapers.jpg)

Cell reception is beautiful on many levels.

## Overpasses or underpasses

![11underpass](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/11underpass.jpg)

Who needs The High Line when you have this next door.

## A Bucket

![12bucket](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/12bucket.jpg)

If there is no running water say hello to this guy!