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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by filoleg on Sunday July 17, 2022 @01:32PM (#32128984)
> If the average visitor is there for a week, then a million yearly visitors only increase the daily population by 20k

Correct, but NYC had 66 million visitors in 2019[0], which is way more than 1mil you guesstimated.

Which, conversely, would increase the daily population by 20k*66=1.32mil. 1.32mil is a non-trivial increase in daily population at all.

0. https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/tourism-industry-ne...

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