Now these are railroad apartments!
The southwest-facing pads on the corner of Broadway and Melrose Street in Brooklyn are so close to the Myrtle Avenue subway station platform that tenants can practically reach out the window and touch the J, M and Z trains that rumble past.
“I never open my windows,” said Arpit Ahluwalia, 26, who lives on the four-floor of the apartment in Bushwick and can see directly into subway cars from his bedroom.
“I feel like, if I open the windows, I can walk right onto the track,” said Ahluwalia, who splits the $4,000-a-month rent with two roommates.
The platform barriers are barely 5 feet from the building and when a train pulls in, it’s about 10 feet away, according to measurements taken by The Post.
Luckily, the new building was designed to muffle some of the outside commotion, Ahluwalia added, and after six months in the Big Apple from Philadelphia, the trains have become “white noise.”
Many of the new tenants share his nonchalance, according to Diego Luna, manager of Maya’s Snack Bar, which sits right below the apartments.
“About a month ago, they were having a full blown conversation from the window with a guy that was on the other side of the platform,” Luna said.
A Brooklyn realtor shared a video of a $4,000 a month third-floor walkup directly opposite the tracks on social media in December and it has since gone viral with over 7 million views.
“My clients were looking for an apartment within a seven-minute walk from the train,” said Simply Brooklyn realtor Zalman Simpson. “I showed them this one and they signed on the spot.”
The unit has since been rented, but the tenants didn’t respond to a Post reporter — possibly because they couldn’t hear her knocking.
For many — the tracks are way too close for comfort.
“He’s up-selling the train being right outside your window as a good thing,” an incredulous New Yorker commented on Instagram.
“$4K to hear a train all day and night … pass,” said another.
Construction on the corner apartment building, which is on the border of Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant, wrapped up in late 2023 and tenants have been moving in since then.
The location was a vacant lot until 2007 and then a smaller, abandoned building for several years, records show.
