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Now these are railroad apartments!
The buildings located at the corner of Broadway and Melrose Street in Brooklyn face southwest. These structures are positioned so close to the Myrtle Avenue subway station platform that residents can almost extend their arms out the window and touch the passing J, M, and Z trains.
Arpit Ahluwalia, a 26-year-old resident residing on the fourth floor of an apartment in Bushwick, shared that he refrains from opening his windows due to the proximity to the subway. From his bedroom, he has a direct view into the subway cars passing by.
“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 distance between the platform barriers and the building is merely 5 feet. When a train arrives at the station, it comes as close as 10 feet away from the building, as per measurements conducted 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.