The Croissant Comparison: Brooklyn vs Manhattan (2026)
Brooklyn is clearly cheaper only for teams of one to three. From four people up, the two boroughs cost about the same, and most of Brooklyn’s offices are in a single building.
The short answer
Is Brooklyn cheaper than Manhattan for a private office?
Only for small teams. A private office for one person costs a median of $467 a month in Brooklyn against $925 in Manhattan, and one for two or three people $933 against $1,678. From four people up, the two boroughs' medians are close and their ranges overlap, so Brooklyn is not reliably cheaper.
- For one to three people, the median private office in Manhattan between 34th and 59th Street costs $1,598 a month, against $1,067 below Canal Street.
- Kent Offices holds 21 of the 37 Brooklyn private offices for one to three people, so a small team choosing Brooklyn is mostly choosing one building.
Croissant Office Price Index. Prices read October 20, 2026 from 327 private offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan, each the monthly price of the whole office before taxes.
Private office prices in Brooklyn and Manhattan by team size
| Team size | Manhattan median | Brooklyn median | Offices priced | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $925 a month | $467 a month | 26 + 10 | Brooklyn 50% less |
| 2 to 3 people | $1,678 a month | $933 a month | 72 + 27 | Brooklyn 44% less |
| 4 to 5 people | $2,400 a month | $2,350 a month | 74 + 16 | No clear difference |
| 6 to 9 people | $4,200 a month | $4,427 a month | 41 + 23 | No clear difference |
| 10 to 15 people | $7,600 a month | $7,275 a month | 28 + 10 | No clear difference |
Teams weighing Brooklyn against Manhattan usually assume Brooklyn is the cheaper choice. We compared 327 priced private offices across the two boroughs to see when that holds. Every figure is what the whole office costs a month, before taxes, measured for the Croissant Office Price Index.
Finding 1
Brooklyn saves money for one to three people, and not reliably after that
A one-person office costs a median of $467 a month in Brooklyn and $925 in Manhattan. For two or three people it is $933 against $1,678. From four people up the medians sit close together and their ranges overlap, so the gap could be chance.
Manhattan Brooklyn
Describe this graphic
1 person: $467 in Brooklyn, $925 in Manhattan. 2 to 3 people: $933 in Brooklyn, $1,678 in Manhattan. 4 to 5 people: $2,350 in Brooklyn, $2,400 in Manhattan. 6 to 9 people: $4,427 in Brooklyn, $4,200 in Manhattan. 10 to 15 people: $7,275 in Brooklyn, $7,600 in Manhattan.
The bars are 90% intervals from resampling the offices 2,000 times. Source: Croissant Office Price Index, 2026-10-20. Offices on Croissant, and offices listed on LiquidSpace and CoworkingCafe collected by Croissant on 2026-08-19.
Finding 2
For a small team, Midtown is the expensive part of Manhattan
For one to three people, the median office between 34th and 59th Street costs $1,598 a month. Below Canal Street it is $1,067, close to Brooklyn’s $933. Only 14 downtown offices fit that size, so the downtown figure is less certain than the others.
Describe this graphic
Brooklyn: $933. Below Canal Street: $1,067. 14th to 34th Street: $1,300. 34th to 59th Street: $1,598.
Source: Croissant Office Price Index, 2026-10-20. Offices on Croissant, and offices listed on LiquidSpace and CoworkingCafe collected by Croissant on 2026-08-19.
| Area | Median | 90% range | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn | $933 a month | $933 to $933 | 37 |
| Manhattan, below Canal Street | $1,067 a month | $900 to $1,450 | 14 |
| Manhattan, 14th to 34th Street | $1,300 a month | $975 to $1,800 | 12 |
| Manhattan, 34th to 59th Street | $1,598 a month | $1,500 to $1,750 | 66 |
Finding 3
Most of Brooklyn’s offices are in one building
Kent Offices holds 21 of the 37 Brooklyn offices for one to three people, and 14 of the 23 for six to nine. Leave it out and the choice shrinks to a handful of buildings. For six to nine people those other buildings have a median of $4,250 a month, from 9 offices.
Describe this graphic
Circles over a map of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, one per building. The largest, Kent Offices, has 44 priced offices.
Source: Croissant Office Price Index, 2026-10-20. Offices on Croissant, and offices listed on LiquidSpace and CoworkingCafe collected by Croissant on 2026-08-19.
How we measured it
The comparison uses every priced private office in Brooklyn and Manhattan in the New York findings: offices on Croissant at their 12-month price, read on 2026-10-20, and offices listed on LiquidSpace and CoworkingCafe at the monthly price they publish, collected on 2026-08-19. An office listed in both places counts once. Offices Croissant lists for operators, whose monthly price is worked out from a day rate, are left out. The intervals come from resampling the offices 2,000 times; when two 90% intervals do not overlap, the difference is clear.
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