Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time

Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by SkipperCat on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:28PM (#32098163)

I live in Brooklyn and feel the same way. Even if you discount all the empty luxury apartments held by foreigners who never show up, there are still tons of people who want to move here.

Why?, because when you have all these people crammed together - weird stuff happens and that's what makes NYC magical. We're constantly mixing together, in the subways, bars, restaurant, parks ,etc. You get to see firsthand all the humanity of this city. No other city in America has replicated that.

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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by neon_electro on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:40PM (#32098341)

I won't argue/disagree with you as far as NYC's comparably higher degree of what you describe, but having lived in Philadelphia's core, there's plenty of the mixing magic happening in other cities, but it's definitely not "the same".

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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by namose on Thursday July 14, 2022 @02:19PM (#32099641)

Philly is also probably the closest approximation to NYC in this way. Most other cities in the US are so segregated that wealthier neighborhoods feel like suburbs (looking at DC and Boston here).

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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by eatonphil on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:49PM (#32104097)

Check out Eastern Queens. :) It's indistinguishable from wealthy suburbs (and wealthy Nassau County) to me.

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