BUT: Manhattan is the big hummer. Living in Manhattan is way, way more expensive than living in, say, Queens, particularly real estate and groceries.
There you go. But .I'll just add that a good portion of Brooklyn is also headed in that direction .
I get the feeling that, before long, they'll turn the housing projects into high-end condos and co-ops.
Yup. By the time his four years are up, a lot of lower income folks are going to be mighty disappointed in de Blasio. He's just as cozy with the real estate lobby as the rest of them. But he hides it well by making a spectacle of chasing the horses out of Central Park .
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