Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.
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New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.
It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.
Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.
Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.
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