POLL: Your Rent (New York, York, Columbus: low income, apartment, insurance) - New York City - (NY) - City-Data Forum

Kefir King · 10-13-2013, 07:18 AM

For those renting in New York City, how much is your household's rent? This is a response to the Bloomberg claim that the median rent in the City is $3095.

high iron · 10-13-2013, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Kefir King

For those living in New York City, how much is your household's rent? This is a response to the Bloomberg claim that the median rent in the City is $3095.

city data is a self selecting sample though.

Kefir King · 10-13-2013, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by high iron

city data is a self selecting sample though.

True, no poll is perfect. But if anything, people who are able to own and use a computer might be expected to be more represented in the higher half of the income spectrum. It seems almost inconceivable that we would be skewed to low income.
So if anything the high rent choice might be expected to be amplified.

bill83 · 10-13-2013, 09:42 AM

I don't pay rent. My housing expense (tax, insurance, water, gas, electricity) is way below $3095/month.

BinxBolling · 10-13-2013, 11:34 AM

All "median rent" or "average rent" claims are basically invented by realtors, I think.

According to the 2010 census, the average rent actually being paid by New Yorkers was around $1,100. That sounds about right.

Even for current vacancies, $3,095 seems much, much too high if you're including the outer boroughs.

Jessica_inNYC · 10-13-2013, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Kefir King

For those renting in New York City, how much is your household's rent? This is a response to the Bloomberg claim that the median rent in the City is $3095.

I pay $ 2,300/month for my studio on the UWS.

Cida · 10-13-2013, 04:15 PM

My household expenses are also far below that - but I think statements like Bloomberg's are meaningless because they're so broad. Even to say more specifically that "A one-bedroom in Manhattan costs ___" is over-broad, but at least it's graspable.

quakerchick · 10-13-2013, 04:17 PM

I live on 94th and Columbus I pay 750/month for a 2 bedroom however I have been living here for 21 years.

MisterStereoman · 10-13-2013, 05:50 PM

2300 for a studio? JEESH!
750 for a 2 bedroom at that location: JEESH!

I pay 1100 for a studio, way uptown, lived here 25 years.

No breaks for the working class.

quakerchick · 10-13-2013, 07:41 PM

Have you always payed 1100 for that studio. A lady at my church lives uptown and pays 1100 for her 5 bedroom 2 bath pre- war apartment and has been living there about the same amount of time as you.
Your building is not rent subsidize. Luckily, as my income keeps going up rent is able to stay down I got my apartment my first year out of college.