{"id":2312,"date":"2007-05-10T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/the_new_tenements.html"},"modified":"2007-05-10T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T18:23:46","slug":"the_new_tenemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/the_new_tenemen.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Tenements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shocking truth (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/10\/nyregion\/10rent.html?ex=1336449600&#038;en=aea77a27c81cfbf4&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">courageously revealed in today&#8217;s Times<\/a>) is that perfectly respectable middle- and even <em>upper<\/em>-middle class <em>educated<\/em> (albeit underemployed) youths (did we mention these youths are Ivy League or similar?) can no longer afford living in Manhattan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As the apartment-hunting season begins, fueled by college graduates and other new arrivals, real estate brokers say radical solutions among young, well-educated newcomers to the city are becoming more common, because New York&#8217;s rental market is the tightest it has been in seven years. High-paid bankers and corporate lawyers snap up the few available apartments, often leading more modestly paid professionals and students to resort to desperate measures to find homes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shocking truth (courageously revealed in today&#8217;s Times) is that perfectly respectable middle- and even upper-middle class educated (albeit underemployed) youths (did we mention these youths are Ivy League or similar?) can no longer afford living in Manhattan: As the apartment-hunting season begins, fueled by college graduates and other new arrivals, real estate brokers say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}