How About a Summer Pad in...Seagate?

While scouting Brooklyn rentals for a Curbed item today about how the Brooklyn rental market for tourists looking for NYC hotel alternatives is doing quite well, we came across a vacation opportunity in Seagate. For those of you that have never been, Seagate is a gated community at the end of what is otherwise known as Coney Island. It will probably wash out to see in a bad hurricane, but that's also a digression and could be said of most East Coast beach places.

In any case, the Craigslist "vacation rental" ad is headlined "2br - OCEANFRONT TERRACE - HAMPTONS STYLE VACATION @BROOKLYN PRICE." It promises a "Large terrace facing private beach, 2 bedrooms, gym equipment, safe parking, DVD, CD, DSL internet. Half hour to one hour (with traffic) car ride to Manhattan. Subway between one and one and a half hour trip to midtown." The cost of this Brooklyn "Hamptons style" getaway pad is $2,200 for a month, starting July 6.

Last week, we wrote about people taking vacations in Brighton Beach. Now, this. We know there must be opportunities in Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, the Rockaways, Belle Harbor and Breezy Point too.