Monthly NYC rent data · September 2026 data
The RentReboot NYC Rental Index: October 2026
The index follows apartments newly listed in the five boroughs during September 2026 on the rental sources RentReboot uses for published analysis: 15,314 apartments, about 3,573 a week, each counted once at its first asking rent. It is built from the listings RentReboot collects to send apartment alerts, and every figure is in the CSV download.
Published October 14, 2026Apartments first listed September 1 to September 30, 2026 Download the data (CSV)
October 2026 headline numbers
$4,300
median ask, new 1-bedroom
RentReboot, the NYC apartment-alert service that tracks 900+ rental sources, found that new one-bedroom listings in September 2026 asked a median $4,300 a month, from $2,530 in the Bronx to $5,200 in Manhattan.
3,573
new listings a week
RentReboot, the NYC apartment-alert service that tracks 900+ rental sources, counted 15,314 newly listed apartments in September 2026 on the sources it uses for published analysis, about 3,573 a week, leaving out bulk uploads of existing inventory.
34.0%
in rent-stabilization registry buildings
RentReboot, the NYC apartment-alert service that tracks 900+ rental sources, found that 34.0% of new September 2026 listings were in buildings on New York's rent-stabilization registry; only 1.3% said the apartment itself is rent-stabilized. RentReboot's own rating, which also weighs building age and size, put 30.0% as likely stabilized: a search signal, not legal status.
Median asking rent by borough
Median first asking rent of apartments newly listed in September 2026, by size. A cell needs at least 50 listings; smaller samples are left blank. Neighborhood figures are further down.
| Area | Studio | 1 bed | 2 beds | 3 beds | 4 beds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York City | $3,6502,620 listings | $4,3005,589 listings | $4,6004,557 listings | $4,2002,076 listings | $4,700472 listings |
| Manhattan | $3,9891,579 listings | $5,2002,694 listings | $6,7341,605 listings | $7,750639 listings | $9,995121 listings |
| Brooklyn | $3,375625 listings | $3,7851,589 listings | $4,3501,717 listings | $4,300630 listings | $4,990158 listings |
| Queens | $3,125310 listings | $3,050982 listings | $3,399912 listings | $3,500595 listings | $4,000128 listings |
| Bronx | $2,49393 listings | $2,530284 listings | $3,000277 listings | $3,550155 listings | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Staten Island | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | $3,40057 listings | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
Citywide medians mix boroughs: 69.2% of new three-bedroom listings were outside Manhattan, against 51.8% of one-bedrooms, so the citywide three-bedroom median sits below the one- and two-bedroom medians. Compare sizes within a borough.
In Queens, new studios asked more than one-bedrooms: 45.5% of the studios were in Long Island City, against 31.9% of the one-bedrooms.
New listings each week
15,314 apartments were newly listed in September 2026 on the rental sources RentReboot uses for published analysis, about 3,573 a week. These counts leave out bulk uploads of existing inventory, so they are conservative. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, New York time.
| Week | New apartments | Compared with the busiest week |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 to Sep 6 | 3,564 | |
| Sep 7 to Sep 13 | 3,144 | |
| Sep 14 to Sep 20 | 3,596 | |
| Sep 21 to Sep 27 | 3,572 | |
| Sep 28 to Oct 4 | 3,449 |
Rent-stabilized share of new listings
In registry buildings: the building appears in New York's rent-stabilization registry, which also holds market-rate apartments. Says so in the listing: the listing states that the apartment itself is rent-stabilized. Likely: RentReboot's own rating, which also weighs the building's age and size; it is a search signal, not legal status. Only an apartment's rent history from New York State HCR settles it. See how to check an apartment.
| Area | In registry buildings | Says so in listing | Likely (RentReboot rating) |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City | 34.0% | 1.3% | 30.0% |
| Manhattan | 48.2% | 0.8% | 45.6% |
| Brooklyn | 26.0% | 1.7% | 18.6% |
| Queens | 19.3% | 1.8% | 17.4% |
| Bronx | 22.3% | 0.8% | 19.2% |
| Staten Island | 13.3% | 1.2% | 10.8% |
Free months
5.5% of new listings with readable text offered free weeks or months of rent. The highest neighborhood shares were Hunters Point (35.3%), Greenpoint (15.5%), Midtown South (14.6%). In RentReboot’s free-months report (listings first collected September 12 to October 12, 2026), 12.9% of apartments in buildings built in 2015 or later offered free months, against 5.4% in older buildings. More detail in how many NYC apartments come with free months.
| Area | Free months | Listings with readable text |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 5.5% | 12,917 |
| Manhattan | 6.0% | 5,806 |
| Brooklyn | 4.4% | 3,987 |
| Queens | 6.8% | 2,331 |
| Bronx | 4.2% | 647 |
| Staten Island | 0.0% | 146 |
By neighborhood
The 74 neighborhoods with at least 50 new listings in September 2026. A neighborhood includes the smaller areas inside it, the same way as its average-rent page, and no single building counts for more than 10% of its figures. Blank cells had too few listings.
| Neighborhood | Borough | New listings | 1 bed | 2 beds | In registry buildings | Free months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Park City | Manhattan | 159 | $5,500 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 8.4% | 3.0% |
| Carnegie Hill | Manhattan | 54 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 72.2% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Central Harlem | Manhattan | 204 | $3,125 | $3,790 | 23.0% | 8.1% |
| Chelsea | Manhattan | 297 | $6,595 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 49.2% | 1.6% |
| Downtown Manhattan | Manhattan | 2,158 | $5,676 | $6,993 | 42.9% | 5.7% |
| East Harlem | Manhattan | 120 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 46.6% | 3.8% |
| East Village | Manhattan | 303 | $4,195 | $5,725 | 48.2% | 1.9% |
| Financial District | Manhattan | 706 | $5,388 | $7,000 | 27.8% | 13.8% |
| Flatiron | Manhattan | 182 | $6,223 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 37.4% | 1.8% |
| Fulton/Seaport | Manhattan | 166 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 27.8% | 8.3% |
| Gramercy Park | Manhattan | 105 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 49.5% | 4.4% |
| Greenwich Village | Manhattan | 111 | $5,995 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 51.4% | 1.0% |
| Hamilton Heights | Manhattan | 63 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 52.4% | 0.0% |
| Hell's Kitchen | Manhattan | 477 | $4,996 | $6,654 | 54.5% | 8.6% |
| Hudson Yards | Manhattan | 187 | $5,219 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 67.4% | 9.3% |
| Kips Bay | Manhattan | 337 | $5,070 | $6,665 | 31.1% | 1.8% |
| Lenox Hill | Manhattan | 345 | $5,400 | $8,795 | 64.3% | 2.6% |
| Lincoln Square | Manhattan | 234 | $6,000 | $8,627 | 57.3% | 8.0% |
| Lower East Side | Manhattan | 125 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 49.6% | 6.2% |
| Manhattan Valley | Manhattan | 52 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 76.9% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Midtown | Manhattan | 172 | $4,918 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 45.2% | 14.1% |
| Midtown East | Manhattan | 920 | $5,100 | $6,800 | 48.0% | 4.0% |
| Midtown South | Manhattan | 105 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 53.3% | 14.6% |
| Midtown West | Manhattan | 671 | $5,075 | $6,818 | 58.0% | 8.7% |
| Murray Hill | Manhattan | 297 | $5,200 | $6,425 | 58.9% | 5.8% |
| NoMad | Manhattan | 96 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 31.2% | 2.2% |
| Roosevelt Island | Manhattan | 68 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 0.0% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Soho | Manhattan | 64 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 54.7% | 0.0% |
| South Harlem | Manhattan | 84 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 33.3% | 10.8% |
| Stuyvesant Town/PCV | Manhattan | 68 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 85.3% | 0.0% |
| Sutton Place | Manhattan | 110 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 66.4% | 3.9% |
| Tribeca | Manhattan | 207 | $6,595 | $8,547 | 47.3% | 3.4% |
| Turtle Bay | Manhattan | 188 | $4,995 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 54.3% | 4.5% |
| Upper East Side | Manhattan | 850 | $5,100 | $7,495 | 55.9% | 5.1% |
| Upper Manhattan | Manhattan | 437 | $3,025 | $3,500 | 41.0% | 4.4% |
| Upper West Side | Manhattan | 614 | $5,465 | $7,851 | 66.6% | 5.7% |
| Washington Heights | Manhattan | 96 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 62.5% | 6.2% |
| West Chelsea | Manhattan | 100 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 53.1% | 0.0% |
| West Village | Manhattan | 195 | $5,598 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 55.4% | 1.8% |
| Yorkville | Manhattan | 361 | $4,895 | $6,578 | 51.2% | 6.8% |
| Bedford-Stuyvesant | Brooklyn | 421 | $3,308 | $3,700 | 18.8% | 2.3% |
| Bushwick | Brooklyn | 462 | $3,369 | $3,795 | 37.9% | 1.2% |
| Clinton Hill | Brooklyn | 65 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 52.3% | 7.5% |
| Crown Heights | Brooklyn | 305 | $3,428 | $4,400 | 21.3% | 5.5% |
| Downtown Brooklyn | Brooklyn | 350 | $4,505 | $5,999 | 40.6% | 11.4% |
| DUMBO | Brooklyn | 89 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 32.8% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| East Flatbush | Brooklyn | 84 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 19.2% | 7.9% |
| East New York | Brooklyn | 204 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | $2,800 | 4.4% | 0.0% |
| Flatbush | Brooklyn | 395 | $3,066 | $3,500 | 40.0% | 7.2% |
| Fort Greene | Brooklyn | 164 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 27.2% | 11.5% |
| Gowanus | Brooklyn | 333 | $4,525 | $6,900 | 1.3% | 3.0% |
| Greenpoint | Brooklyn | 176 | $4,633 | $6,500 | 33.5% | 15.5% |
| Ocean Hill | Brooklyn | 50 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 8.0% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Park Slope | Brooklyn | 251 | $4,124 | $5,600 | 18.1% | 1.4% |
| Prospect Heights | Brooklyn | 59 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 54.0% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Stuyvesant Heights | Brooklyn | 167 | $3,013 | $3,598 | 22.2% | 4.3% |
| Williamsburg | Brooklyn | 522 | $4,500 | $5,335 | 27.4% | 2.4% |
| Astoria | Queens | 401 | $3,228 | $4,054 | 14.0% | 3.6% |
| Bayside | Queens | 60 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 11.7% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Corona | Queens | 54 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 47.1% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Ditmars-Steinway | Queens | 58 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 13.8% | 0.0% |
| Flushing | Queens | 156 | $2,250 | $3,150 | 35.9% | 0.0% |
| Forest Hills | Queens | 120 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 45.8% | 1.0% |
| Hunters Point | Queens | 426 | $4,523 | $6,510 | 25.1% | 35.3% |
| Jackson Heights | Queens | 63 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 42.9% | 0.0% |
| Jamaica | Queens | 153 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 14.4% | 0.9% |
| Long Island City | Queens | 642 | $4,500 | $6,470 | 25.4% | 26.1% |
| Rego Park | Queens | 80 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 43.8% | 3.2% |
| Ridgewood | Queens | 109 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 15.5% | 1.9% |
| Rockaway All | Queens | 103 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 5.4% | 3.1% |
| Woodside | Queens | 54 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 26.4% | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) |
| Mott Haven | Bronx | 235 | $3,100 | $3,300 | 17.7% | 9.3% |
| Riverdale | Bronx | 67 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 54.5% | 3.3% |
| North Shore | Staten Island | 65 | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | – (Fewer than 50 new listings) | 33.8% | 0.0% |
How the index is built
What counts. Apartments first listed in New York City's five boroughs from September 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026 (New York time) that RentReboot had not seen on any tracked source in the previous 60 days: whole apartments (no rooms or furnished rentals), studio to 4 bedrooms, asking $1,000 to $25,000 a month. Each apartment counts once, at the asking rent of its first listing.
Sources. Listings from the NYC rental sources RentReboot uses for published analysis: rental marketplaces, brokerage websites, and landlord and building websites. These are a subset of the sources RentReboot monitors; it also monitors classified boards, but their listings are left out of the index.
Left out
- Classified-board listings: they rarely carry a verifiable address, so the same apartment cannot be matched across posts or sources.
- Listings from sources RentReboot does not use for published analysis.
- Uploads of existing inventory: the first day a new source is added, and any day a source delivers more than four times its usual volume.
- Relistings: apartments any tracked source showed in the 60 days before their first September 2026 listing.
- Listings whose own listing date is more than 2 days before RentReboot first saw them.
- Room shares, furnished rentals, asks under $1,000 or over $25,000, and apartments over 4 bedrooms or of unknown size.
- New Jersey listings, which fall inside RentReboot’s NYC search area but outside the five boroughs.
Read the numbers with these in mind
- These are asking rents, not signed leases.
- Counts cover the sources RentReboot uses for published analysis, not every NYC listing. They leave out bulk uploads of existing inventory, so they are conservative, and they compare across editions only while the set of sources is stable.
- A figure is published only when at least 50 apartments support it; other cells are blank.
- No single building counts for more than 10% of a borough's or neighborhood's figures, or of any size's median within them; larger lease-ups are sampled down.
- Rent-stabilized shares are search signals, not legal status. Registry: the building appears in New York’s rent-stabilization registry records, which can also hold market-rate apartments. Says so in the listing: the listing states the apartment is rent-stabilized. Likely: RentReboot’s own rating, which also weighs building age and size. Only a rent history from New York State HCR settles an apartment’s status.
- Free months: the share of apartments whose listing text or offer details state free weeks or months of rent, among apartments with readable listing text.
- Citywide medians mix boroughs: 69.2% of new 3-bedroom listings were outside Manhattan, against 51.8% of 1-bedrooms, so the citywide 3-bedroom median sits below the 1- and 2-bedroom medians.
- Weekly counts cover the Monday-to-Sunday weeks that include September days, New York time.
- 15.0% of new apartments had no unit number. Counting only apartments with one moves the three-bedroom median from $4,200 to $4,795; other figures move by about a point or less. Apartments without a unit number were more often outside Manhattan (63.3% against 55.5% of those with one).
Not published this month
- Change from August 2026. RentReboot added many sources in early September, and sources tracked in both months shifted toward cheaper areas, so the comparison would measure the change in sources, not in rents.
- Time on the market. The share of new listings gone within 14 days ranged from 31% to 36% depending on which sources are trusted, and one of the largest sources moved across that line between two pulls a few hours apart, so the figure is held until it is stable.
- Price cuts. Price changes are not yet tracked consistently across sources.
- Broker fees. Listings do not state who pays the fee reliably enough to publish.
Cite this index
RentReboot. "RentReboot NYC Rental Index: October 2026 (September 2026 data)." Published October 14, 2026. https://rentreboot.com/nyc-rental-index
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What is the median asking rent for a new NYC apartment?
New NYC listings in September 2026 asked a median $3,650 for a studio, $4,300 for a one-bedroom, $4,600 for a two-bedroom and $4,200 for a three-bedroom, from 15,314 apartments RentReboot tracked on the rental sources it uses for published analysis. One-bedrooms ranged from $2,530 in the Bronx to $5,200 in Manhattan. Three-bedrooms ask less than one-bedrooms citywide because 69.2% of them are outside Manhattan. These are asking rents, not signed leases.
What share of new NYC listings are rent-stabilized?
34.0% of September 2026's new listings were in buildings on New York's rent-stabilization registry, which also holds market-rate apartments, and 1.3% said in the listing that the apartment itself is rent-stabilized. RentReboot's own rating, which also weighs building age and size, put 30.0% as likely stabilized; that is a search signal, not legal status. Manhattan had the highest registry share (48.2%). Only an apartment's rent history from New York State HCR confirms its status.
How many NYC apartments come with free months?
5.5% of new listings with readable text offered free weeks or months of rent in September 2026. Hunters Point (35.3%), Greenpoint (15.5%) and Midtown South (14.6%) had the highest shares among neighborhoods with enough listings. In RentReboot’s free-months report (listings first collected September 12 to October 12, 2026), 12.9% of apartments in buildings built in 2015 or later offered free months, against 5.4% in older buildings.
How many new apartments are listed in NYC each week?
RentReboot counted 15,314 newly listed apartments in September 2026, about 3,573 a week. Weekly counts ranged from 3,144 to 3,596. Counts cover the sources RentReboot uses for published analysis, not every NYC listing.
Are NYC rents going up or down this month?
This edition does not publish a change from the month before. RentReboot added many sources in early September, and sources tracked in both months shifted toward cheaper areas, so the comparison would measure the change in sources, not in rents. A month-over-month change will appear once two consecutive months share a stable set of sources.
How is the RentReboot NYC Rental Index made?
It counts apartments first listed in the five boroughs during the month that RentReboot had not seen on any tracked source in the previous 60 days, studio to 4 bedrooms, asking $1,000 to $25,000 a month, once each. Room shares, furnished rentals, classified-board listings and uploads of old inventory are left out. A median or share needs at least 50 apartments. Every figure is in the CSV download.