As buyers and renters in New York increasingly look outside Manhattan for places they can afford, many popular neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens are becoming more expensive. People who may have rented a place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a few years ago are pushing northeast into Sunnyside, Queens. Buyers who might have looked in Park Slope are migrating to Windsor Terrace and Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Which neighborhoods are trending the most as we settle in to 2025? A new report from StreetEasy found the top 10 “neighborhoods to watch” in 2025 by comparing annual changes in home searches on the platform from 2023 to 2024. (Only neighborhoods within the top 30 percent by search volume and with at least 100 listings for rent or sale on StreetEasy in 2024 were considered.)
Topping the list for the second straight year was Ridgewood, Queens — just over the Brooklyn border from trendy Bushwick — with home searches increasing by 13.2 percent from 2023 through 2024. The median asking rent in 2024 was $3,250 and the median asking price was $1.295 million, both up more than 8 percent from 2023.
Following Ridgewood was Greenwood, Brooklyn (sometimes called Greenwood Heights), just south of Park Slope. Searches there increased by 9 percent, although the median asking price fell 3.2 percent to $1.5 million and the median asking rent slipped 1.1 percent to $3,250 a month.
In all, six Brooklyn neighborhoods and three Queens neighborhoods made the top 10. That left just one in Manhattan: Morningside Heights, which you might call the Upper Upper West Side. Search interest there increased by nearly 6 percent over a year, with around a 2 percent increase in both the median asking rent (now $4,000 a month) and the median asking price ($1.257 million).
Of course, people are still looking in the pricier areas. Long Island City, Queens, the neighborhood with the third-highest increase in searches, had the highest median asking rent among the top 10 ($4,148 a month). But one neighborhood over, in Sunnyside, Queens, the median asking price of $429,000 and the median asking rent of $2,500 were the lowest on the list.
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