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232.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 487 upvotes, which works out to 2 per 1,000 members.

2peak upvotes per 1,000 members
232.9Kmembers
487best post
242most comments
304posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

46% 27% 16%
Text 46% Gallery 27% Question 16% Video 5% Image 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Advice/Question 104 Apartment Listing 54 Looking For Apartment 37 Looking For Room 34 Lease Break / Lease Takeover 23 Room Listing 18 Looking for Sublet 10 Dumb Post 6 Sublet Listing 6 Looking For Short Term 5

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Found apartment in 2 days. People only post bad experiences here. Don’t let it scare you off.

↑ 487 💬 133 text 2026

NY landlords who miss the 14 day security deposit deadline forfeit the right to keep any of it. Most don't know this law exists.

↑ 332 💬 50 text 2026

Beware of “wrong building” listings

↑ 320 💬 50 image 2026

Why does no one talk about wall-mounted AC units being used for apartment heating?

↑ 308 💬 191 image 2026

Regret moving

↑ 247 💬 133 text 2026

1 BD / 1BA - West 72nd Street - Lease Takeover

↑ 203 💬 58 gallery 2026

The roommate I’m replacing is asking me to buy out shared items at full price

↑ 129 💬 113 text 2026

push for soundproofing!!

↑ 127 💬 31 text 2026

squatter in my apartment

↑ 121 💬 166 text 2026

MOVD NYC Movers lost $670 worth of my items and offered $50 in return

↑ 118 💬 44 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/NYCapartments, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/NYCapartments have?
r/NYCapartments has about 232.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 304 of its posts; the biggest reached 487 upvotes, which is 2 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NYCapartments?
"Found apartment in 2 days. People only post bad experiences here. Don’t let it scare you off." reached 487 upvotes and 133 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NYCapartments.
What subreddits are similar to r/NYCapartments?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/NYCapartments?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are text posts and 27% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NYCapartments?
Across 304 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 02:00 UTC (120 avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (89 avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (86 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/NYCapartments?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NYCapartments has 36 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NYCapartments, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.